[maw230]

I'm looking to buy a remote start kit for my 2006 6s, and I am wondering if anyone here has installed one of these themselves. Just looking to gauge the degree of difficulty. I have installed several car audio systems in the past, so I have some knowledge of that...

 

[maw230]

The one I am looking at:

 

[Whiterabbit]

if you've ever done an alarm before, it's the same. Walk in the park, with only one exception. There is no real tach wire, you have to go into the engine compartment for it. It's a bit of a pain in the arse. But once you get that wire into the cabin, it's smooth sailing. Everything else is in the driver's side kickpanel or in the driver's side underdash.

 

[maw230]

I've never done an alarm install. And the system I'm looking at is a simple remote start kit without alarm or keyless entry meant to accompany the stock system.
Will I still need the tach wire from the engine bay?

 

[Whiterabbit]

Sort of. You have two choices:

Bite the bullet, take the extra 15 minutes to find the wire and route it into the passenger compartment. Make that 5 minutes if you are an expert, or 30 if you've never done an alarm before.

Or, use the alternative programmed into many remote starts which is timed cranks or voltage sensors. Both ghetto, they *can* cause fail-to-starts and extra cranking after starts in situations such as cold cold winter mornings, marginal battery or battery nearing (but not reached) end of life, people staring/pointing, chuckling, etc.

Can you tell I'm biased?

-----------

seriously, you'll be fine. Grab a guide from the12volt and grab a bunch of yellow and red T-taps, a couple blue t-taps and go to work. Verify your taps with a multimeter and I have no doubt if you know the difference between +12V and REM (you mentioned youve done some installs) you'll find an independent RS cake.

 

[Whiterabbit]

BTW, many of those wires on the RS, you aren't gonna use. Like IGN3 out. Second starter. goes on and on. Others are YOUR CHOICE. For example, I don't want my remote start honking my horn, just my alarm. So I don't hook up the horn wire in my car. You'll probably hook up 10 or so wires out of that bunch there.

 

[custom6]

it not hard...just time consuming. that tach wire can be tapped from the coil package.