PUSH BUTTON START
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From: GFY
RE: PUSH BUTTON START
I don't see a point to the push button start if you can just start the truck with your keys. Kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it? So if some dude mugs me in a parking lot and jacks my keys then he can start my truck without finding the push start.
RE: PUSH BUTTON START
I got the remote start as one of my options in my 07. The problem was that when I bought my 07 in October they did not make a remote starter for the 07 and the 06 version was not compatable. I want to say late November or early December when they had the remote starter for the 07. The thing works like a charm and it is so nice in the cold of morning to just hit a button from my warm house thengo outside a few minutes later to a warm truck.
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RE: PUSH BUTTON START
The remote start would be pretty sweet but the point to a button start is for theft. Even with remote start some guy could still jack your truck just as easily as it would be without the remote start, that is if the truck can be started without the remote. If it takes the remote as well as the key to go then that is the same as the button. Not positive on this feature though.
RE: PUSH BUTTON START
The remote starter is not a way for a thief to steal your truck, at least in the case of Rams. They are designed to self stop after 10 minutes of run time or once the break touched. Every now and then I have forgetten to put the key in and tried to shift into drive but before I can move it out of park the engine is shut off as a result of pushing on the brakes to shift. I suppose if you wanto to look at it this way, locks keep the honest people honest. If a thief wants to steal my truck he's going to steal it.
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The remote start would be pretty sweet but the point to a button start is for theft. Even with remote start some guy could still jack your truck just as easily as it would be without the remote start, that is if the truck can be started without the remote. If it takes the remote as well as the key to go then that is the same as the button. Not positive on this feature though.
The remote start would be pretty sweet but the point to a button start is for theft. Even with remote start some guy could still jack your truck just as easily as it would be without the remote start, that is if the truck can be started without the remote. If it takes the remote as well as the key to go then that is the same as the button. Not positive on this feature though.
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I will elaborate. Say some dude pick pockets me and yanks my keys, he goes to my truck and gets in, puts the keys in then turns it over. Well when the motor doesn't start and he is confused why he drops my keys on the ground and leaves. I think most people trying to jack a car won't look around for a button if it doesnt start, I think they will split. I installed an ignition cut off in my first car under the dash and the switch had to be on for the ignition to fire. Some guy tried jacking it while I was at work and I came out, the window was busted and there was a screw driver stuck in my ignition. Well I flipped the switch under the dash that he didn't know of then turned the screw driver and it fired right up and I drove off. My jeep was an 86 so the screw driver thing worked. That's why I think hiding an engine start button (like the one I saw in the center console on dtw) is an anti theft device. Most theives in a time crunch wont even notice that big red button on your dash that says engine start.
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RE: PUSH BUTTON START
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I will elaborate. Say some dude pick pockets me and yanks my keys, he goes to my truck and gets in, puts the keys in then turns it over. Well when the motor doesn't start and he is confused why he drops my keys on the ground and leaves. I think most people trying to jack a car won't look around for a button if it doesnt start, I think they will split. I installed an ignition cut off in my first car under the dash and the switch had to be on for the ignition to fire. Some guy tried jacking it while I was at work and I came out, the window was busted and there was a screw driver stuck in my ignition. Well I flipped the switch under the dash that he didn't know of then turned the screw driver and it fired right up and I drove off. My jeep was an 86 so the screw driver thing worked. That's why I think hiding an engine start button (like the one I saw in the center console on dtw) is an anti theft device. Most theives in a time crunch wont even notice that big red button on your dash that says engine start.
I will elaborate. Say some dude pick pockets me and yanks my keys, he goes to my truck and gets in, puts the keys in then turns it over. Well when the motor doesn't start and he is confused why he drops my keys on the ground and leaves. I think most people trying to jack a car won't look around for a button if it doesnt start, I think they will split. I installed an ignition cut off in my first car under the dash and the switch had to be on for the ignition to fire. Some guy tried jacking it while I was at work and I came out, the window was busted and there was a screw driver stuck in my ignition. Well I flipped the switch under the dash that he didn't know of then turned the screw driver and it fired right up and I drove off. My jeep was an 86 so the screw driver thing worked. That's why I think hiding an engine start button (like the one I saw in the center console on dtw) is an anti theft device. Most theives in a time crunch wont even notice that big red button on your dash that says engine start.
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From: GFY
RE: PUSH BUTTON START
Yeah I know the srt10 ones are in plain sight but I think most thugs trying to jack a car will try to get out of there quick and they will be watching all around them and won't notice that huge red button that say engine start haha.
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There was a SRT owner jumped at a car wash. Guy with a gun, giving him all these orders and BS. Anyhow, the guy tried to steal the truck and could not start it, never under estimate stupidity. The gunman grew aggrivated told the owner to tell him how to start the truck or die as he is waving his gun, owner went aound to the passenger side as instructed, but he in turn drew his gun he had on him and killed the criminal.