1 review for Viper VSM550 SmartStart Pro Module

1. admin – February 1, 2019

   Remote Start 4806V 2 way LED Nov 2015 So far so good. Now two months later and Winter it gets used twice a day. It was installed in Nov 2015 by a DEI approved dealer. I wanted it highly personalized. It took some force and a few trips back to the dealer to get the settings and hardware all as close to what I wanted as they could be. The technician and his buddies tried to blow me off when the boss wasn’t there as my list of preferences was two pages long and this was not the unit they were familiar with. ( Mine is a Viper and they have Python and AutoMate on the shelf in the store. All are DEI products ) I emailed the owner and all future requests got whatever it took to get worked out even if it meant me and them calling tech support. The Viper support number for consumers is not answered by as highly familiar tech support as the installers have access to. Now for the details. The extremely bright theft deterrent light that blinks from the antenna can be disabled. The install tech found that out after one of the calls to their level of support access. He said it was a little pink wire that could be cut. It was far too bright. There is little chance the remote will start the car from inside a factory. Mine does not from much closer than a mile away. It does do quite well when outside pointed at the sky all the way from behind the building at about 1000 feet that way. Sometimes it takes couple attempts. It will not work through a non line of sight window at near the same distance. The LED plays a small going up the scale tune and lights up to let you know the car started if you can’t see it. There is no way to check if it is still running during a cycle when the car is out of sight. If you hit the start button again you have to listen to weather its playing the descending stop tune or the ascending start tune. I do wish you could choose the run cycle length without going to the dealer. They can program the runtime you prefer but it will get lost during a reset. You will have to remind them to put it back. As for the exterior lights during remote start cycle, I wanted none. After a lot of effort the only thing left on is daytime running lights which does allow a visual to confirm the car is running. The horn … I just left it disconnected. On a previous remote start model various things would make the horn blow by accident. I might be getting a starter grind while in remote. I have yet to investigate that. One disappointment I must mention is the driver door priority can not be made to work. All four doors unlock when in a remote start cycle. That is just what a bad guy hiding on the passenger side would want. The installer says its in a “canned cycle” that he can not change. Driver door priority does work when not in remote start. The cost at this dealer was $505 complete. Another dealer wanted around 200 more for all the preferences I wanted. All in all I recommend the Viper 4806V LED remote start. Comments welcome at [email protected]