I got my Saturn Ion 2004 back from the car audio installation shop this afternoon and tried out the new 3rd party pass/fail remote starter system. So far everything worked as advertised. I haven’t been able to try it out yet in the morning when I’ve had the most problems but this evening it fired up remotely on the first try. I had a problem just yesterday when it would not start the evening after 3 tries, i gave up.
I will give it another test in the morning to see if the extremely cold weather affects this new system.