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View Poll Results: Is your daily driver equipped with a remote starter?
Yes, it is, and I use it. 4 11.43%
Yes, it is, but I don't use it. 1 2.86%
No, I have a heated garage. 5 14.29%
No, and I don't have a heated garage. 25 71.43%
Voters: 35. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 09-20-2010, 05:41 AM
 
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We don't have a heat system in our garage but it is well insulated and never gets below 40 degrees in there which is really nice. Back in our apartment renting days we didn't have a garage and it sure would have been nice having a remote starter. If you have one, just be careful, we had some friends that had one and their young son was playing with the keys and started their car that was parked in their garage. Fortunately no one got hurt/sick but it could have been bad.
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Old 09-20-2010, 09:21 AM
 
Location: Park Rapids
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No remote starter and Garage is not heated but has never let me down. I do however have heated seats now. Nice benefit before that engine can begin to pump some warm air.

Hey that reminds me, I have to make room in the garage to park again before the snow flys..
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Old 09-20-2010, 12:11 PM
 
Location: MN
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We dont have auto starts, have a heated a garage but never use it. The garage stays ~40 all winter anyway due to insulation. I like to get "woken up" by the cold of starting a cold car anyway..
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Old 09-23-2010, 03:51 PM
 
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No remote start. I park my car on the street. A remote start wouldn't keep me from scraping my car off, but would put an end to those really cole minutes before the heat kicks in.
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Old 09-23-2010, 05:43 PM
 
Location: E ND & NW MN
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No remote start. I park my car on the street. A remote start wouldn't keep me from scraping my car off, but would put an end to those really cole minutes before the heat kicks in.
Not necessarily....I know most of us at my work who have to park outside start their car about 20 min before leaving....giving it plenty of time. If you have a remote starter you can do this and leave the car locked if security is an issue.
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Old 09-25-2010, 05:46 AM
 
Location: Minneapolis
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I hope you are not like many other drivers who do that------poking along as they try to peer thru a windshield that is fogging up.
ha ha ha! nope. I have found that if you wait untill the needle just starts to move off the "cold" and crack a window a few inches you dont get a fogged up windshield. Again, the needle is starting to come off "cold" wthin just a few inutes.
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Old 09-25-2010, 10:44 AM
 
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Hi everyone, Just moved here and reading about heated garages....ours is not heated, should it be? I do have a remote starter. Have not experienced the MN winters...have read about people bringing their car batteries indoors?
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Old 09-25-2010, 03:19 PM
 
Location: Cleveland bound with MPLS in the rear-view
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No, and even if I didn't have a heated garage I don't see the huge benefit of it. I get that it warms up the car for you before you get in, but I live in a high-rise right now and to even get the thing started I'd have to be downstairs and closes to the car anyways, and at that point I'd just rather get in and bear the coldness for 1 minute. If it was costly I'd probably never get one either....I rarely find my car so cold that I can't stand it.
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Old 09-25-2010, 10:34 PM
 
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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Hi everyone, Just moved here and reading about heated garages....ours is not heated, should it be? I do have a remote starter. Have not experienced the MN winters...have read about people bringing their car batteries indoors?
Most unheated garages are fine, and they provide shelter for the car as well as an area for engine heat to warm the air. If you drive on a daily basis, you'll see a difference even with an uninsulated garage, I suspect.

My parents have an unheated attached garage, and we had an unheated detached garage in our Eden Prairie townhome. The only place I've had a heated garage was in the apartment complex I lived in for many years, and that was a very nice perk but not really a necessity.
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Old 09-26-2010, 06:16 AM
 
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Hi everyone, Just moved here and reading about heated garages....ours is not heated, should it be? I do have a remote starter. Have not experienced the MN winters...have read about people bringing their car batteries indoors?
Unless you do work in your garage you don't need a heated garage. If you have an attached garage it is most likely insulated and having an insulated garage door is a big bonus. Like I said in my previous post, our garage doesn't get below 40 degrees (insulated, not heated) even in the coldest weather and that is plenty warm for an easy start with the car.
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