Remote start not working - any thoughts/experience?

[JarOwens]

Same thing happend to my 2013 a few months ago a few weeks later the battery died so you may want to have it tested

 

[Mad*Max]

Same thing happend to my 2013 a few months ago a few weeks later the battery died so you may want to have it tested

So yours was not remote starting and as soon as you got a new battery your car started to remote start again?

 

[JarOwens]

So yours was not remote starting and as soon as you got a new battery your car started to remote start again?

Yep couldn't figure out why the remote start wasn't working the lights would just flash but wouldn't start about 2 weeks later the car wouldn't start it was a dead battery

 

[Sailurman]

That's a problem with technology these days. The car starts so fast that the current draw doesn't give you the slower engine turning like it used to. So the battery can be on that final gasp, but you don't know until it's gone. Nothing like going from instant start to ....click click click

 

[Mad*Max]

Yep couldn't figure out why the remote start wasn't working the lights would just flash but wouldn't start about 2 weeks later the car wouldn't start it was a dead battery

it had nothing to do with your battery

 

[mysterslyckster]

Possibly a bad closed hood sensor/switch?

 

[mysterslyckster]

someone locate the sensor so I can rig it to always on, and remote start with the hood open.

It's part of the hood latch by the radiator.

 

[Mad*Max]

It's part of the hood latch by the radiator.

I could not find it

 

[LizzyTheLez]

Are all doors and hood closed fully?

The hood tricked me once

even with the doors open you can still remote start. do it all the time in mine.

 

[Mad*Max]

even with the doors open you can still remote start. do it all the time in mine.

Mine will also remote start with the doors open but not with the hood open.