Anyone else turn everything off when you stop the car?

[tcp71]

If you come into your garage with the turbos spinning at anything greater than idle, you must have a very large garage, driveway, alleyway or high speed residential street. If you're turbos aren't liquid cooled, you are driving something older than 20years. There are two twin turbo V6s in my garage. I shut them off as soon as they are put in park. As quick as a turbo spools up, it will spool down again...a few seconds at most.

 

[D60]

My S-15 Jimmy developed a quirk towards the end of its stay with me where the wiper would occasionally make one swipe across the windshield when I started it, even though the switch was in the "off" position. I hated having to clean/loosen them without help from the defroster but I didn't want to turn the truck on and risk stripping something in the wiper linkage.

I fixed a GMT800 with the same issue. Initially thought it was the pulse board in motor but turned out to be the wiper switch. The pulse board was also bad because at first the wipers only worked on high.

I kinda suspect a bad pulse board toasts the switch or vise versa -- can't prove that, however.

 

[ATex7239]

No. In modern vehicles you have the illusion of control but in reality you are just sending an input to a computer which will determine the output aka when something will or will not happen. Just drive it.

 

[Chris142]

The concern from OP was leaving the compressor and other items "ON" when starting the car the next time they go in to drive it.

That only happens if you are driving a 40yr old car. Most anything newer the ac is controlled by a computer and it wont let the compressor come on until the engine is running.

 

[FZ1]

As long as I can remember when I put my vehicle in park I turn all the accessories off before I shut the engine off. Thinking has always been it probably isn't the best for the AC compressor and/or the blower motor to come on hard from a dead stop. Radio too because I like to hear the start-up in case something is off. This started back when I was driving $300 junk and I just kept doing it. Don't know if it helps anything but can't hurt.

All off. A/C off 2 blocks from home.

 

[Sam_Julier]

Fan, wipers and AC off.

On a hill: I set the parking brake set with car in neutral, release brake to let PB hold the car, then shift into park, 1st or R.

The radio is never on because I don’t listen to it.

 

[AutoMechanic]

Only wipers and lights because my RAV4 since it’s a base model doesn’t have automatic lights. Everything else stays set exactly the way it is and I never change it. Radio stays on and on the same channel at all times when operating and air/heat stays on. I know one guy who cuts everything off when he gets out and it drives me insane lol. I need the air blowing on me as soon as the car starts not 30 seconds after when you turn it on.

 

[MCompact]

That's funny, because mine does. Some cars have turbo shaft speed sensor. Mine is displayed on a monitor.

Mine goes to 110,000 rpm under load. Responds quickly to load changes. Idle is ~5k.

To the OP, I like to pull fuses when I park just to make sure.

You don’t disconnect the ground cable as well?
Shame!

 

[50yr Street Mech]

Own a bunch of old beaters, with switches for just about everything. Been shutting down all the accessories since the 70's, and never broke that habit. So, yeah. I shut most everything off before I shut down the engine. Also flip up the wipers before a snowstorm to make it easier to clear windshield.