Tothemax

That's why I said usually.

What I did.with the wife's old Malibu was I bought a oem remote start off ebay. I paid somewhere around 100$ for it. I took the two remotes into the local Chevy dealership and they agreed to reflash the ecm for 45$. Couldn't beat that deal.

eyezayuh

Its so frustrating reading most of you have paid between an average of $40-$70, some of you even NOTHING to get the remote start activated in IDS!! I have 2 dealers in my city and one wanted to charge me $170 to program 2 keys and activate remote start. The other wanted to charge me a little over $200!! Had the keys programmed by my locksmith for $75 plus taxes. Now, gotta see how I can get the remote start activated!! Lol.

stronger800

....dealer told me he'd activate it for free, after I bought it online and installed it. "Under" one hours labor if I have them install and activate. Some dealers just $uck.

WisTruck

Could have saved yourself $75 and programmed your keys for free. As long as you have both of the original keys it is very easy and takes only a couple minutes. I would call your dealers back and tell them you literally just need IDS plugged in and remote start switched to on. Maybe tell them you will bring the truck in for an oil change and they can do it then (thats what I did). If they quote you the same prices call them out on it. Or just go to the service place and find a tech and try to kick him $40 or something to do it on the side.

Commeeche

I sucked it up and put in a OEM remote start, it was $220 my cost for the kit, dealer didn't charge me to program it or anything, I had a couple different remote starts in different vehicles and I always had problems, it was always will this kit needs a special resistor to work with this and so on

CreepinDeth

Anything made by DEI (Directed Electronics) which is a highly reputable manufacturer.
I've used Viper from DEI for the past 12 years.

http://www.directed.com/

I am savvy with electronics but on a $49,000 truck I wasn't about to do it myself
and possibly cause myself headaches with warranty work if an issue arose.
I paid the $450, and used the place the dealers use......I've used them before so I trust them.

My cousin had REPEATED issues of an aftermarket remote start / alarm that would CONSTANTLY shut his vehicle off randomly. The cost to troubleshoot electrical makes it prohibitive to let a noob install it.

caperJ

Buy the remote start about 200 put it in yourself tel that dealer to stick it whre the sun dont shine and go to a dealer an enable remote start option in IDS, 2 mins tops 50 for asking

steve392

I got my oem long range remote from some ford dealer on ebay, $199 shipped. installed it myself in about 20 minutes. Had to find a dealer who wasn't retarded and knew what and IDS system was. Found one, took 40 minutes to activate and make sure all was working. Cost me $60 at the dealer.

Toddman38

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Thats adeal if its the one with a seperate fob not a key!

1994Vmax

I was about $280 but I'm in Canada and otherwise same deal. Parts guy would have put in the antenna that day and flashed if I had the truck there. Came back about 2 weeks later with the truck and antenna installed. Guy cut my keys, we programmed them in about 2 minutes since I had both my originals... and he set it up with ids in about 5 minutes. That even included flipping my daytime running lights to my parks from thd headlamp. That way when I converted to oem hid's a few months later. .. it's just like oem. I paid for nothing more than the kit.

Same with remote access though. I bought the parks, installed myself and he set it up from his desktop no charge. No need to deal with Ebay or some US dealer if the local guy is reasonable. But after 14 years at that dealer... the guy quit and I don't know where he went... so no more good service.