I live in Florida and have no real need of a remote starter. But I grew up in Missouri, and we used to get freezing rain, which resulted in as much as an inch of ice on the windshield.

The car is undriveable until you can see out the windshield. I recently sent my sister a remote starter (which also serves to unlick doors and such) because she has no garage and tells me that sometimes it takes 15 minuets of scraping to get the ice iff the windshield. Her locks get frozen as well.
If she could start the car and let it run for 20 minutes, the ice will slide right off and the locks will unfreeze, and of course, you can open the car without the key.

The thing cost $70 plus shipping from JC Whitney near Chicago, they sell mail order, and comes with a video on how to install it.
She knows lots of mechanics so I don't think this will be a problem.

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