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Date:         Fri, 6 May 2005 19:07:03 -0400
Reply-To:     Karl Hartmut Filc <kfilc@SYMPATICO.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Karl Hartmut Filc <kfilc@SYMPATICO.CA>
Subject:      Re: Remote start for diesels?
Comments: To: Richard Green <rlgreen@INDUSTRYINET.COM>
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I have one on my wifes Hyundai. It works only if the shifter is in neutral AND the handbrake is set. This in Ontario/Canada. But didn't the diesel need a time of glowing before can start?

Karl Hartmut Filc 80 Vanagon (soon to be a weekender)

Life is too important to be taken seriously

----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Green" <rlgreen@INDUSTRYINET.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 :09:39 AM Subject: Re: Remote start for diesels?

>I have seen them for standard transmissions before.They use something to > tell that the tranny is in netural. > I am not sure how they do it. I would say it's not illegal like that. > Richard > > Andrew Grebneff wrote: > >> I want to fit a remote start to my diesel. All the local >> autoelectricians (those who have HEARD of them) say they cannot >> supply units; one said they are illegal on manual cars. >> >> Anyone know what would be involved in fitting one to a diesel? >> >> It'd be nice to be able to have the car defrost/fog its glass and be >> warm by the time I get dressed & head out to work... >> -- >> Andrew Grebneff >> Dunedin >> New Zealand >> Fossil preparator >> <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> >> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut >> >> HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE VON NEUMANN MACHINE >> >> DEMOCRACY: RULE BY THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR >> >>


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