I have a 2005 LR3 SE and living in cold climate and would like to add a remote start to warm the car in the winter. Anyone have recommendation what should be used?

 

Do not use a remote start, you will get all sorts of codes and no starts. These vehicles do not like remote starts.

 

Marry a farm gal and have her crank it on the way back from milking the cows....

Well, maybe add engine heater that gets the coolant warm during the night, and you unplug it. Heat comes very soon.

 

It's also questionable as to how much good or otherwise idling an engine at start up does. Best thing to do once you've started that engine is to get driving.
But if I had a good farm girl I'd let her start it...

 

I have just purchased my first LR3, had a P38 in the past and live in SK, Canada where it can get a bit chilly and was thinking about a remote start so the 'don't fit one' is a good alert, but I love 'marry a farm girl....' so funny!!

Just to add to the comment above, sometime for those who live in real cold and harsh places, at times you have no option but to allow the vehicle to warm up as the low temps mean you can and do get ice on the inside and the vehicle. Without a heated windshield you have to allow that to warm up before its safe to drive. At -30 its so cold that your breath freezes and fogs up the windows so you need the engine heat. For those who have never seen -30, its not just cold its painfully cold, things don't work very well either including LCD or other electrical displays, power steering is sluggish and seats are like sitting on cold granite, add on a good wind chill and your below -40.

 

I know the cold of which you speak - used to live in The Great White North, now in balmy southern Ontario, where we get maybe three or four days like that each winter.
I always found that starting vehicle then scraping and clearing was enough. Certainly helped wake me up. And those heated seats are a joy!

Regardless, and with or without remote start, enjoy the trek. Did part of it in my '05 LR3, but that was in summer. Winter would be interesting.

 

Problems with adding remote start revolve around the alarm system deciding that an unauthorized start attempt should be met with a full force robust immobilzation and denial of cranking and fuel pump. I'm sure if Rover had thought of it they would have included electrically releasing a metal rod to jam the transmission and require rebuild of that as well. You basically have to simulate to the truck all the various things that you do manually.