Hack to defeat Buick's Auto Stop-Start??

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Originally Posted by MI_Roger
Originally Posted by rooflessVW
Why?


Because the feature is annoying, time wasting, causes excessive wear of the starter motor, and may shorten the battery life. And maybe because I am just an old sour-puss that despises new technology unless it solves a problem for me. With almost all of my driving being highway, the minor fuel efficiency of this feature does not apply to me.

As a driver you get in the wrong lane at a light for an upcoming turn. You need to beat the adjacent car away from the light to make the lane change. Dangit! You find yourself waiting for the engine to restart. One or two fewer cars (and maybe more) can make it through the traffic light with every light cycle due to this delay.


You are making a lane change in an intersection, a ticketable offense along with possibly crossing a solid white line, another ticketable offense. Don't blame the messenger!
bmod305 has an easy solution.

 

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Really weird to not have a toggle switch for it. I liked start stop as a switchable feature on some cars I owned, especially for stop-start city driving, but there are situations in which you don't want it to activate and leaving the switch out just seems like crap design. Start-stop enabled cars generally have beefier starters and batteries so whilst I am sure there are some sob stories on the internet I doubt you would actually see much different lifespan to a 'regular' car.