Where’s my remote car starter?

Posted Jan. 7, 2013

The temperatures are dropping in Duluth, Minn., and when the temperatures drop, it’s time to warm up the car before you embark on your adventure. Unfortunately if you don’t have a remote car starter it is illegal to let your car warm up. Cars sometimes end up stolen when people decide to warm up their cars with the keys in them.

I will admit, I am guilty of letting my car warm up even though my car does not have a remote car starter. I just can’t and I do mean can’t go out into my car in the freezing cold and drive to my destination in a freezing-cold car. Typically travel time in Duluth isn’t that great. One can get to wherever they want to go in a short period of time. This just doesn’t allow enough time to have your car warm up and provide you with any heat while driving without a proper warm up. The tradeoff is I have to walk out to the car in the freezing cold to start my car, come back into my house and wait. Well I guess to save a few bucks right now that I don’t have I will make the cold trip to warm up my car.

It has already been discussed in my household, the next car we own will have a remote car starter. We have lived long enough without one, and it is about darn time to get one. I cannot live in Duluth any longer without a remote car starter.

Boy do I hate winter.

Bashaw writes The Minnesota Bashaw Blog at thebashawblog.areavoices.com

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