Our Subaru came with remote start. We wouldn’t use it anyway, but it has an annoying feature where as soon as you open the door it turns off. I mean, it’s locked and requires the fob to unlock the door, so what’s the point?
I've read about Subarus and how their RS works. That's really unusual and I wonder what Subaru's logic behind it is. They might have what they think are perfectly good reasons. 🤷♂️
Use remote-start on cars there to cool them down with the AC. The point of remote-start is almost entirely for driver/passenger comfort, nothing else. The "scandal" about engine wear is just laughable anymore.
All things being equal, cloth seats aren't as cold in the winter or as hot in the summer compared to leather. It does seem to be very uncommon to have heated (or cooled) seats with cloth seating though. Not sure why...
If I could get cooled cloth seats I’d buy the car just based on that. But it’s gotta have actual FLOW, I hate sticking to the upholstery…
I used to live in Chicago. I know this may sound crazy but humans are mobile organisms.
2 mins sounds reasonable. 15 mins sounds obsessive.
My lower trim Sierra has them. Might have used them once.
In Texas, do you have days or nights where your car is snow and ice covered and has windows covered in frost that needs removed either with an ice scraper or the vehicle's defroster ? This doesn't happen in 30 seconds or even 1-2 minutes. If you parked outside in Chicago in the winter, I'm sure you dealt with this.
People with zero experience with that phenomenon just ignore that reality though and skip to "letting a car idle is bad, bad, bad".
I've experinced it a lot with my first car in the midwest. Fired it up many times when it was below 0, and just driving off 1 minute later was not something people do in those kind of conditions. Having a block heater helped a lot to get the inside warm and the windows clear.
