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mzodarg Senior Enthusiast

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Yesterday, I was out on lunch with a friend who drove. I work on an Army installation and the weather here is horrific (it was raining and the outside temp was 20 degrees) . While we were eating, (roughly 15 miles from work) I received an e-mail saying the Post was being closed due to weather and all employees were being sent home. We finished eating and headed back to get my truck, I started it up as soon as we headed back by using the app, after 15 min, I started it again, when we got to the parking lot the windshield was 80% defrosted, interior was nice an toasty and ready for me to leave post.

 

Outdoor temp right now is 9 degrees with the windchill, it snowed most of the night, can't wait to get out in it and play.

 

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MotoMedic
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It amazes me how counterproductive this forum can be sometimes. The guy made a legitimate inquiry and justified his reasoning. He's looking for answers, not opinions on his lifestyle. Everyone's entit

ShotgunZ71
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You can always go out there and start it by hand and it will run until the fuel tank is dry if you want.   Imagine how warm the seats will be, too!   Don't complain about "only 10 minutes", it

rocnrol
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You have two, 10 min remote starts before you have to go and start it with your keys, and then it resets the cycle. So if you wait until it shuts off on the first remote start, you can do one more aft

JCthebigTree Enthusiast

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weather here is horrific (it was raining and the outside temp was 20 degrees)

 

It was -10 (without wind chill :happysad: ) this morning after 3 days of getting pummeled with snow...We got about 30" and up the shore they got around 42"... That being said, I'd rather have this than freezing rain.

 

Needless to say, I ran the remote start twice this morning and it was still a bit nippy - my appreciation for the heated steering wheel is immense.

 

I'm giving the block heater a whirl tonight - never used it on any of my vehicles, even in NoDak with -35 temps, but I think this one deserves a little pampering.

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jakevanderp New Member

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I can't accept the 2 start limit. My cabin is 300 yds across a river from the parking area where we take off on snowmobile from the trucks. 6 miles to a solid stretch of ice then back along river to the cabin. I stay at cabin 4 days but can only remote start my Silverado twice from the cabin then must trek the 24 mile round trip to start with a key before the remote will work again!! My friends can remote start twice each day in the cold weather to make sure batteries stay good. Chev should make the restart option configurable by us owners at least to 6 times. Sometimes at home I remote start but get delayed a couple times before actually leaving and this limitation is a real PAIN in the butt!!


redwngr Senior Enthusiast

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I can't believe that it helps their battery to do a cold start and a bit of idling.

MikeNH Senior Enthusiast

MikeNH

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I can't believe that it helps their battery to do a cold start and a bit of idling.

Agreed. Starting it and running for a short time does more harm than good. Also,, my truck routinely site for a week or more as I travel for work and never starts any different. Longest it sat was over three weeks in March two years ago. No issue.

Silverado-Hareek Senior Enthusiast

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On the GMT900's, you could do a remote start and then immediately follow the steps for remote start again and the system would run for 20 minutes total. In other words it treated each remote start cycle as a full cycle, it didn't just add 10 minutes to however long the truck has been running and negate the time still left on the initial remote start cycle. Are we certain the K2 trucks don't perform this way?

 

I haven't had a chance to try it yet because when I first got my truck it would only let me do one remote start cycle. I just noticed this past weekend I can do 2 now so at some point when a recall was done (probably the odometer peek in update), the system was updated and now functions properly.

redwngr Senior Enthusiast

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On all the ones I've operated, the 2nd remote activation has always added 10 minutes to the current time.

Silverado-Hareek Senior Enthusiast

Silverado-Hareek

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On all the ones I've operated, the 2nd remote activation has always added 10 minutes to the current time.

 

Another step backwards with the K2 design...........

redwngr Senior Enthusiast

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Another step backwards with the K2 design...........

I'm saying it's works the same as the GMT900's....

Silverado-Hareek Senior Enthusiast

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I'm saying it's works the same as the GMT900's....

 

So if you do a remote start cycle and then immediately do it after the truck has been running for say 1 minute, it will run for 20 minutes total and not 11 minutes?

redwngr Senior Enthusiast

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If it has run for 1 minute and I recycle, I will end up with 11 minutes total, just like it did on my '11, my '10 and my '04.

jamin87ss Senior Enthusiast

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its crap, and if you miss the cutoff at 10 mins, now your restarting the truck, can we say premature starter fail???? I start it after first alarm and then try and catch it ri after the snooze at 10 mins, sometimes I do sometimes I dont, and even after 20 mins on the cold cold days weve had that truck is still cold, my 05 would be warm and defrosted, I have not scraped a window in years, this might be my biggest complaint on this truck, magnified bye the fact that I work outside and the range on the remote is utterly horrible thank god for my onstar app that I won't have next year, maybe I will subscribe for the winter,

 

actually i plan on still putting in a aftermarket system, and the jabs earlier in the thread I get because I had a similar thread a while back and got told that its not right to have a vehicle run that long,

 

BOTTOM line is I work outside and when I'm freezing my tooshie off all day i want a warm truck, and bye the way GM I paid 40k for this dam truck and its my dam truck and with all the crap on there (intelilink) I still can't personalize "MY" truck. don't even get me started on why I can't dim the intelilink screen separately then the gauges thats gripe #2,

 

Otherwise its the best looking truck out there and rides like a dream! :driving: we will see how she tows in 4 months

txchevy4ever Enthusiast

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its crap, and if you miss the cutoff at 10 mins, now your restarting the truck, can we say premature starter fail???? I start it after first alarm and then try and catch it ri after the snooze at 10 mins, sometimes I do sometimes I dont, and even after 20 mins on the cold cold days weve had that truck is still cold, my 05 would be warm and defrosted, I have not scraped a window in years, this might be my biggest complaint on this truck, magnified bye the fact that I work outside and the range on the remote is utterly horrible thank god for my onstar app that I won't have next year, maybe I will subscribe for the winter,

 

actually i plan on still putting in a aftermarket system, and the jabs earlier in the thread I get because I had a similar thread a while back and got told that its not right to have a vehicle run that long,

 

BOTTOM line is I work outside and when I'm freezing my tooshie off all day i want a warm truck, and bye the way GM I paid 40k for this dam truck and its my dam truck and with all the crap on there (intelilink) I still can't personalize "MY" truck. don't even get me started on why I can't dim the intelilink screen separately then the gauges thats gripe #2,

 

Otherwise its the best looking truck out there and rides like a dream! :driving: we will see how she tows in 4 months

 

 

Your OnStar app will work 5 years from the time you start your trial period, whether you subscribe or not.

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Silverado-Hareek Senior Enthusiast

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If it has run for 1 minute and I recycle, I will end up with 11 minutes total, just like it did on my '11, my '10 and my '04.

 

Hmm that's weird my 2007 would run for the full 20 minutes in this scenario. It said it would do this in the manual too.

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