three weeks ago i left sudbury for barrie aprx. 300km or 180 miles dependding on where your from, got there no problems the next day the car wouldn't turn over or crank but the dash would light up speedometer would indicate aprx. 170km/h or 105mph, so we pushed it into the garage and the next morning the thing started with the remote starter that didn't work the day before, so we jumped in and drove home. we used it around town for three weeks no problems whatsoever. Yesterday we left sudbury again hald way on the same trip the thing stalled at a drive thru window it started but if ididn't hold the pedal a little bit it would start to spudder so i kept it at about 1500rpm, then it stopped and would start up again its turning over but won't start it almost starats sometimes iddles roughly than stops i have put 2 bottles of gas line antifreeze and changed the spark plugs but it still won't start the battery was starting to get tired so we put boster cablews on the battery to help it then the clear park lights in the front would come on then go off by themselves without the key in the ignition and the lights off and no the polarity was not inverted on the cables, i'm thinking of going up to the car and pull that remote starter out once and for all, it hasn't worked in a couple of weeks. any feedback would be appreciated thanx, buy the way if it might have any impaact i live in northern ontario which is in canada. the temp about -6C or somewwhere around 35F.

 

First thing I'd do would be to return the car to original state and remove the remote starter. I realize it's a real convience in the "Great White North", what with getting into an already warmed up car, but I think it's causing the "majority" of your problems (particularly the alarm portion) IE:
Lights turning on/off by themselves
Sometimes working, sometimes not.
Starter Disable
..and other 'hints'

Once you tear it out (by the roots), let us know what's up, OK ??

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it's an hours drive from my parents any tips before i head out tomorow, if i can't get it running i will tow it to a garage, but if i can save some bucks i would apreciater it it's not that i'm cheap i'm just broke

 

I don't know how much further I can advise because I don't have information on any of the 30+ Remote Start Manufacturers.
If it were my car (and I'm being most sincere here), I'd look into having a new system installed after you sort this out.
If you can determine who manufactured the system now residing in your car, you might ring up their customer service desk, they might have a "Help Line" for problems like this.

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i went back pulled it out and still no go it almost got going once but didn't make it by this time i had dad's impala boosting it, everything is still closed here but i found a garage where the owner had stopped in to check on his shop i made arrangments with him he'll got a truck to tow it in the morning he'll check it out then give me the low down.

 

please let us know the "fix" it might help us to help someone else

 

might it be 'bulldog' remote start system? we went thru a rash of those in town, and they SUCK! everyone of those darn things has come back and pissed off customers. we install other local systems and they work like a champ. Plus, when we tried to contact Bulldog, we'd get the runaround. buggers! guess customer service is job 0. just my $.02

 

brought it to some local garage buddy told me that the timing belt had gotten real loose and it skipped it damaged the enigne i'm going to bring it to the wreckers

 

Your "Garage Buddy" isn't the one willing to "Take it off your hands", is he?
I'm having a real problem making the leap from what started as an electrical problem ending up as a Timing Belt issue.
Do what you think best, but something smells like Dead Moose about the whole prognosis.

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ps: And there's nothing to say that there's any collateral damage even IF the timing belt went nuclear. P