Originally Posted by
pizzaguy
Cars cant be haunted - but they can be sabotaged, and yours is - you have an aftermarket remote start kit installed and it is falsing for what ever reason.
If you grab the "sticky key" PDF and use it to take the bottom of the dash apart, you can inspect the wiring at the ignition switch, and it will be obvious.
Remove the abortion and restore the car to factory and your problems will be over.
(I suppose the kit may be installed in the ECU/RCM box but it would be more likely to be under/in the dash.)
After getting off work, and thinking about it again, I just logged in to suggest this, but you beat me to it. It fits the pattern as the remote starter would turn on the lights to show it started the car. Touching the brake pedal would turn the car off unless the ignition was turned on with the key. A spare key must be hidden somewhere in a box that is reading the security chip and passing it to the ignition ring. The electronics could be going bad or a stray signal is triggering it.