Remote Car Start Myths Debunked and More

The guys over at Mobile Edge have some great information regarding remote car starters, and have debunked many of the myths surrounding these "magical" devices. For instance, did you know  you can now install a remote start on a manual transmission? Yep, it's true. Curious why you should consider adding a remote start to your own car? Mobile Edge answers that one too. Of course, you can also hop into the SoundDomain forums to a lot of your questions answered as well.

I Want That: Prestige Security

In this week's "I Want That" installment, Mr. Mobile tempts our gadget appetites with a taste of the Prestige XRO9100 alarm/remote start convenience system. Probably the most obvious cool factor with this system is the OLED-equipped two-way paging remote. The remote provides system status information as well as command confirmation when you tell it do something. If you've remote started the car, it tells you. If you attempted to remote start the car, and it fails, the remote tells you. If your alarm was tripped while you were away, the remote tells you what zone was triggered. And that's only the tip of the iceberg. And the fact that it uses an OLED display means it's easily readable in sunlight, and it uses less energy than a same-sized full color LCD. Get more details on the system, as well as info on how you can win one of these full-featured systems, after the jump!

Project Car: 1969 Camaro Overhaul

One of the current projects in the HzEmall shop is a classic 1969 Camaro RS. We're re-doing almost every aspect of the car from the wiring to the upholstery, adding air ride, and dropping in an LS2/6 speed motor/tranny conversion. It's going to be quite an overhaul, but when it's finally complete, it will be well worth it. Here's our victim:

We'll have some better pics for you when the job is done!

Center Console
When we got the car it had a GTO console in it, but I can’t even really begin to describe how poorly it was installed...it wasn't pretty. Anyways, it had to be fixed, so we added it to the list.

Here's the before (and yes, that is carpet wrapped around the front, and yes it looked like he trimmed it with a sawzall).

Make sure to check out the rest of the build after the jump. You won't be disappointed!

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Touch-n-Drive: The Starter Kill from the Future

To help deter car theft, manufacturers in both the aftermarket and in the OEMs have come up with all kinds of creative theft deterrents - from standard starter kill relays, to chips embedded in keys, to GPS tracking and telemetry. The "starter kill" is one of the oldest forms of car security, using a basic SPDT relay to interrupt the power to the starter until something tells it to re-establish the circuit. However, the new Touch-n-Drive from Spetrotec puts a new twist on an old need, using biometric data to interface with an alarms system, or it can be used solo as a hi-tech starter kill.
The Touch-n-Drive mounts on the dash via a swivel mounting bracket, and features a green and red status LED. The unit can store up to 10 fingerprints in memory,... (Continued and more pics after the jump)

What do you guys think?

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