I was wondering the same thing... So somehow the starter has to bypass the clutch and be in gear. That's crazy. I wouldn't risk it. Put your money toward something useful.

 

going with a compustar alarm they are awesome

 

I have 99 honda accord manual, has remote start,,go get the prestige model# APS 996..it has a LCD screen of the car,,so nice,,and yet cheap .....ebay..hahhaha

 

don't they have auto start sustems out there that will only start if the car is in neutral and the ebrake is up?

 

i know Clifford has a system that will detect that the e-brake is up and the car is in neutral. i went to tweeter and they wanted $250 installed for it on my Concept 600. which i think was $100 for the remote start. $50 for the module since its a manual. and $100 for labor. thats not too bad if you ask me. remote start is nice when its cold out. my girl has it on her 2000 Celica and uses it all the time in the morning. you just hit it, go get ready for work, and when you go out your car is warm and ready to go

 

Yeah, Clifford's the way to go for remote start for manual cars. Viper alarms aren't as sophisticated and may cause you jail time or lots of money in accidents. So if you must, go with Clifford.

 

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Where did you get that? DEI makes Viper and Clifford alarms. Either one of these 2 can be installed on a manual car. Since there is no sensor on Hondas to tell whether or not the car is in neutral anyway, there is no true safeway to go with it. Bypassing the clutch switch is easy.........simply a jumper between the two pins on the plug. The neutral part is the problem. You could have a custom plate made that fits to your shift pattern with momentary switches at each shift point so that if it is in gear it will push the switch and send signal to the input/shutdown wire on the remote start. But to each his own.

 

Before DEI took over, Vipers were just average alarms. And since almost every guy and their mom had Viper or its variants on their car, they catered to the lowest common denominator. Not only that, if you yank the brain or a part of the Viper alarm system, you disable its features. So if I wanted to drive off with a spare key, I can do it by just yanking the alarm brain out. I hope you knew that. Not so on the Cliffords. The Cliffords must have a continuous circuit in order for you to disarm and start your engine: an added security in case someone finds your alarm brain and tries to yank it out. In other words, unless if there's a continuous circuit and an active "command" to disarm (via transmitter), the system will prevent the starter from engaging. Plus only the Clifford AvantGuard 4 has a remote starter kill you can put on the fuel pump for added security.

I had Viper before and kinda got upset after hearing how easy they can be defeated. Clifford alarms (at least before they got bought out by DEI) made car theft extra harder than Viper alarms. And you can ask any alarm retailer (that carried both) on this!

 

Hehe, I remember watching someone I used to work with play with his remote start all the time. He had an early 90's Taurus SHO with a five speed, and in the parking lot after work he used to hit the starter. It would take about 3 or 4 times, but once the momentum carried the car between start intervals, he could get it going. It was funny watching him try to stop it, though. Had to pull a Dukes of Hazzard move to get in while the car was rolling!

 

you would think he'd be smart enough to have someone sitting in the car too,