March 16, 2005
When Remote Starters Attack

The Alfa, being built before such electronic niceties as ignition, let alone remote start, also has this problem:

Djordjevic said police were skeptical of her story [that her car started on its own and drove into her neighbor's house] until they witnessed her remote starter activate, sending her car driving down the road. They chased it down and prevented it from hitting anything, she said.

Of course, since the Alfa (like all old cars) requires what is essentially a secret handshake that also involves the feet to get going, remote starters are essentially, well, non-starters. It's better than a car alarm!

Shaddup you. It starts just fine. The front wheels don't point the same way*, but it damned well starts.

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* I now know how Han Solo felt. I did everything right changing the tie rod ends, counted the turns just like it says in the book. Put everything together, and on the ground the passenger side wheel is straight as a laser, while the driver's side is 5 degrees inward. "It's not my fault!!!"

Posted by scott at March 16, 2005 05:48 PM

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