I’d be concerned with startup wear. Oh wait,the startup wear myth has been debunked
Not in this context. And car makers realise this as they use reinforced bearings for S/S cars.
What was debunked is cold start oil starvation wear...
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Not in this context. And car makers realise this as they use reinforced bearings for S/S cars.
What was debunked is cold start oil starvation wear...
centre switch, permanently disables start/stop but you do get a warning on the dash. but that's pretty obscure anyway.
Can't speak for the Chrysler versions, but on my italian fiat start stop won't activate if you use little brake pressure. Or turn it off completely like I did.
I hope you don't mean it stops the car at TDC with fuel/air mixture in and just needs a spark to go? As that has been debunked.... the compression is lost after a few seconds and the fuel is now in your engine block. Some cars however use the alternator to restart the engine...
That's definitely abnormal behaviour. Most systems stop once then if conditions aren't good they restart and stay running until a certain speed has been reached. But it's not uncommon that they system restarts the engine after only a few seconds because the battery is getting poor and voltage drops quickly.
That's definitely not the case... at least not on hyundais. Needs coding aswell which a key cylinder doesn't if the old keys can be reused, or the transponders switched over.
The start buttons have been reliable, more so than the fobs... and a WHOLE LOT more than the electric parking brake buttons. Replacing those are a near daily experience...
So my point is, if a button is reliable for 1 brand, the button doing the same thing on another brand might not be. And maybe the button a few inches away is the total opposite...
Not to mention air up the tires...
I had this same experience with a manual BMW F30. Drove a friend's car back to his house for him while he drove another vehicle and it was my first experience with start/stop. At the first light I thought for sure the car had died.
I sometimes turn the S/S on as a battery test. it was fun to tell my daughter the car had run out of fuel or shut off because it was about to... she's older now so doesn't work anymore... S/S however does
Ford hybrids ( Escape ) were shared with Toyota . Not sure if they still are .
It was a 2.0 diesel most likely? so anything between 140 and 180-something bhp? I've seen some people here (don't recall names, just the statement) state that a car with less than 280 bhp is slow Maybe they are talking about a bigger and heavier vehicle with a torque converter? As 180 bhp seems to be more than we need, and I guess you found the same. More is nice, but not really useful within the limits of the law...
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I didn’t know that.
Test drove '20 SOUL . Liked it . Didn't bother us due to having a '06 Prius . Would likely get an '20 SOUL if not having so many issues . Wait until bugs are worked out .
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You're still young, it's only natural that you don't have much experience and limited training. So I don't get the behaviour towards you either.
If the interest is there, your knowledge will grow and your experience will aswell. Pro tip here as you mentioned you're not very trained in electrics: U = I x R. Keep that in front of your mind at all times when looking for electrical issues. If you measure (even a small) resistance anywhere it shouldn't be, it's pulling down the voltage the application needs relative to the current that flows through it. That's why a 0.1 ohm reistance in the wiring of the starter can make a car fail to start but is probably not gonna be noticed in a lighting circuit....
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Yeah seen it. Wanna see it in action. 4 cylinder engines always stop around TDC though. Since compression is gone they can only inject a very small amount of fuel, about 1/3rd of normal idling fuel volume depending on compression ratio. Maybe it's enough to restart an engine.
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I definitely have a strong interest. And appreciate the tips I always take advice from the older more experienced guys. I have even showed some of the older guys things too lol. I don’t do much electrical work but do occasionally and I’ll put this is my book of notes that I keep on hand too because I don’t think I’ve ever had to use that formula because I didn’t know about it.
That's Ohms law and when working on car electrics it's THE law. Gets a bit more complicated for AC but generally also true there.
to use this in the starter example. Say your battery has 12V and the starter draws 100 amps. (1.2 kw starter) . That means the starter has 0.12 ohms resistance of it's own. With that extra 0.1 ohm resistance there, current drops to 12v/0.22 ohm or 54 amps. And voltage splits over both resistors so your 1.2 kW starter is only seeing 6.54V... 6.54V x 54 amps = 353 watt... or just over 1/4th rated power.
to use this in the starter example. Say your battery has 12V and the starter draws 100 amps. (1.2 kw starter) . That means the starter has 0.12 ohms resistance of it's own. With that extra 0.1 ohm resistance there, current drops to 12v/0.22 ohm or 54 amps. And voltage splits over both resistors so your 1.2 kW starter is only seeing 6.54V... 6.54V x 54 amps = 353 watt... or just over 1/4th rated power.
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