polypep
12-19-2009, 12:28 PM
Hello all
I have an Autostart AS-1755 that was installed just over a year ago. It worked perfectly fine until few weeks ago. Now if I want to start my vehicle, pressing the start button will make the car's parking lights flash 3 times and when I press it again, the lights flash once. This routine continues while pressing the start button. I went through the manual that came with the starter and this is an indication of car entering cold weather mode which only activates when start button is pressed for 3 seconds. ( I am only pressing the button once for a second).
I tried using other basic features of the starter, like enabling and disable the valet mode and the idle convenience feature. Those features work fine. Sometimes I can lock and unlock the car but that does not work every time.
Another interesting thing I noticed is that on some mornings the car will start fine but other mornings it will only flash as mentioned above. When I manually start the car and drive it around for a few minutes, the remote starter will start working fine.
I have switched between transmitters and checked the batteries in the transmitters (all batteries are at 2.96V) - have not replaced batteries though. called autostart help line and first of all the wait times are insanely long (over 2 hrs). Once I got through and was advised to replace batteries and call back. I can not take the car back to the installer as I have moved to a different city since then.
Any help will be appreciated.
I have an Autostart AS-1755 that was installed just over a year ago. It worked perfectly fine until few weeks ago. Now if I want to start my vehicle, pressing the start button will make the car's parking lights flash 3 times and when I press it again, the lights flash once. This routine continues while pressing the start button. I went through the manual that came with the starter and this is an indication of car entering cold weather mode which only activates when start button is pressed for 3 seconds. ( I am only pressing the button once for a second).
I tried using other basic features of the starter, like enabling and disable the valet mode and the idle convenience feature. Those features work fine. Sometimes I can lock and unlock the car but that does not work every time.
Another interesting thing I noticed is that on some mornings the car will start fine but other mornings it will only flash as mentioned above. When I manually start the car and drive it around for a few minutes, the remote starter will start working fine.
I have switched between transmitters and checked the batteries in the transmitters (all batteries are at 2.96V) - have not replaced batteries though. called autostart help line and first of all the wait times are insanely long (over 2 hrs). Once I got through and was advised to replace batteries and call back. I can not take the car back to the installer as I have moved to a different city since then.
Any help will be appreciated.