Wait till you drive a Tesla... No stop start, no key, no nuthin. Barely any buttons...
Heck, most of the time you don't even need the brake pedal.
Heck, most of the time you don't even need the brake pedal.
Start/stop feature - the worst function ever?
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It's just another way to improve numbers with CAFE. That's why it can't be permanently disabled. And it's been out for a while and you don't have a lot of broken starters. But it may surprise you to know that the aux battery that it requires typically fails pretty often. The starters are fine though, they knew enough to beef them up. Haven't had a starter fail in a long time although alternator failures are still pretty common. Last car did over 200k on the original starter. Some like having the aux battery fail, then the start stop doesn't kick in. But you do get an error message.
There isn't in any vast numbers. This is one item of misinformation posted on car forums.
I modified my old behavior and now I try to buckle up before doing anything, then unbuckle when the car is off. My wife's Subaru has a L-O-U-D warning signal and it gets louder with time when ignored.
Correct - it's been too long to keep propagating this myth online.
I was going to post it...beat me to it.
There could be data out there. But anecdotal evidence perusing different Internet forums across the Internet would suggest they are not breaking in any major numbers. And you know how it is-the complaints get posted-the good things don't.
He doesn't know, he just likes arguing...
you'd be incorrect on all accounts
I don't drink the BITOG kool aid. Arguing has nothing to do with it.
In all the forums and FB groups and where folks go to complain, where is it? Lord knows you can find every common issue with every car online/forums/FB groups but in the 20 years I've been avidly part of those communties, since the advent of start/stop, I've never heard of a single common/reported issue related to it beyond batteries in the VW Atlas that weren't up to the task and were subsequently replaced with batteries that were.
In the cars parked next to the cars that died due to 0W20 usage. Which are parked next to the cars with dead automatics that had more than 4 speeds. Which are parked next to the cars with TPMS, VSC, backup camera et al, which were too expensive to fix and the cars were junked instead.
Somedays I find it amazing when I see any new car going down the road, you'd think their owners would be too scared to take it out of the driveway.
Wins.
Starter issues have been rare for decades, and they continue to be rare on start/stop equipped cars. However, start/stop not working in not rare, and can account for the low failure rate in starters.
That's my experience as a dealer tech anyway.
Hyundai got rid of start/stop after a few years too. so it was only a few years where the system standard on most cars.
That's my experience as a dealer tech anyway.
Hyundai got rid of start/stop after a few years too. so it was only a few years where the system standard on most cars.
Based on what?
Yes -My Silverado towing through the Rocky Mountains on a regular basis towing my 5,000 pound-30 foot travel w/the 5.3 running 0w/20 should have self-destructed miles ago-according to some on here!
GREAT POST BTW!
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