I am new, so I appologize if this has been discussed before and I missed it on the forum search.
I bought my girlfriend a 2012 Edge brand new May of 2012. She tells me she likes her car and doesn't say much else, until a day or so ago when I ask about the remote start because it has been in the negative teens the last few days for highs (well except when I throttled her back to 80MPH max without her knowledge, but that is a different story for a different day). She says she likes it but where she works she can't use it because the car shuts off if she move to far from the vehicle. Strange I think, my F150 to my knowledge doesn't have a range AFTER starting so I do what all mechanics now days do, search the internet......Nothing.....so I start guessing, swapping parts and billing her telling her it's fixed......joking...
So....
Here is the scenario, she walks to the back of her building, through the actual building doors into the loading dock area, pokes he head out of the loading dock doors and remotely starts her car (100' or so from the building). She says everything is fine in the loading dock area, other than the garbage smells bad, until she walks back through the main building doors. As soon as she does that the car shuts off. She has whatever stock remote start systems came on these things in 2012. I have never heard of a range after starting. I ask her if she maybe is accidentally pressing the start button again while the fob is in her pocket, but she says no because it happens if some else start her car for her and has the key in their hand the entire time. She found this out by others asking why she has her remote start timer set to less than 5 minutes, she said it is set to 15, and less than 5 is not an option.
Does this sound correct? Anyone else experience this? Is there another setting I am missing in the menu? As soon as it is above 0 for a high, I want to start it in my driveway and start walking down the street and test for myself, but that doesn't sound like that will be the case until Thrusday.
Thanks for your help!