Here at Extreme Audio in Midlothian, we get remote car starters installation questions from people all around Chesterfield County. What intrigues us is the fact that very few people seem concerned about installation quality. The cold, hard reality is installation is key to a great remote car starter solution. Here’s why.
Vehicles Today Use Sophisticated Electrical Networks
Modern vehicles use very advanced electrical systems that work over CAN-BUS networks. A CAN-BUS network allows all the electronics in your vehicle to communicate with each other. In years past, every piece of electronics had its own dedicated wiring, where nowadays, many pieces of electronics will share wiring. This lets the manufacturer save cost and weight by eliminating much of the duplicate wiring in your car, truck or SUV.
In the “old days,” a technician “tricked” your vehicle into starting by firing up all the circuits manually. Not anymore. When you get into your modern vehicle and turn that key or push that button, you are sending a digital command to the computer, asking it to start the engine. When Extreme Audio is finished with your installation, our product sends that same digital command to the computer and it still starts your engine. You could almost say the vehicle can’t tell the difference between you starting it and the remote starter doing so.
The Importance Of A Remote Start Expert
OK – now you may be asking yourself, “Why does this matter to me? All I want is a remote start?” Great question. Nowadays, when you choose a shop to install an automatic starter for you, they will be interfacing with that CAN-BUS network. Since all the electronics in your vehicle now communicate over that network, if your installer doesn’t know how to integrate with this network properly, bad things will happen. We have seen vehicles that wouldn’t start and, in severe cases, we have seen thousands of dollars in electrical damage caused by people who don’t understand these systems.
That is why you want someone who is an expert in remote starters, not a shop that does mechanical work and wants to do some starters for extra income in the wintertime.
The Good News About A Proper Installation
But wait, there is some good news here. Extreme Audio has been specializing in remote car starters for more than 15 years. That’s a long time. Our staff are experts in working with vehicle networks. What that means to you is acronyms like CAN-BUS, LAN and MOST don’t intimidate us, but rather, they get us excited. You see, if a person is qualified to work on these sophisticated networks, the job gets easier than in years past.
Come See The Remote Car Starter Installation Experts
We invite you to contact us or stop by Extreme Audio in Midlothian and see why more and more people in Chesterfield County choose us for their remote car starters.
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