Posted on 05/12/2025 7:07:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
Yes, it can be done by dealerships through their software. It’s just not available to us.
I will never tolerate a car that does that shut off thing.
First ran into it with a rental Volvo and I thought the car was fubar.
Volvos are weird enough but the engine dying at every light was alarming.
Luckily I was in Tucson, not south central L.A.
Check to see if the car doesn’t stop with the AC on...............
The irony here is, at least on my Hilander, Toyota went to a great deal of trouble to enable ASS. There were a lot of modifications bought and paid for by the customer to make it reality. My guess after looking at it is well over a thousand dollars, for nothing.
It gets annoying, and makes you wonder, “What if it doesn’t start back up, then what?”.................
Stopping the motor when you stop your car is among the STUPIDEST ideas I’ve encountered!
The wear and tear on the starter motor, the engine, and other ignition components, as well as the introduction of yet another point of failure, is IDIOTIC!
Imagine the amount of petroleum extracts it takes to replace any and all of those components, as well as the wastage of time and ancillary resources.
Won’t do any good if it’s just put back in when the next leftist gets in office. Congress needs to repeal EPA statutes.
My wife and son both have a Honda CRV. My wife’s is about six years old. With hers you can turn that ECO drive switch so that the car does not shut off at each stop. With my son’s you have to turn it off each time you start the car.
This was a STUPID idea that some liberal came up with to help the environment. In reality it is a bad idea. Especially because the wear & tear on your Starter system.
Offer them an incentive, $$$$$$$$$$.....................
On my wife’s BMW, the dealership cancelled it. That was a 2015 model before ASS was mandated but just encouraged.
Give me a 1969 Dodge Dart with a slant 6, disc brakes and fuel injection. No electric windows or any of that other complex crap. A self contained Gps/radio/bluetooth unit not linked to the operation of the car would be nice as well. Auto or stick will be fine.
Batteries wear out rather quickly....................
I always press the button to disable it. IMO start/stop causes huge damage to engines....starters...batteries...transmissions....
Ya, and put the starter in the transmission!
Who in the hell?
Another idiotic government action is the one that has mandated the changing of EXIT NUMBERS on the highways! The new numbers will reflect the miles from the starting point.
Complete waste of time, energy and money. Yet it is already effect and signs are being changed already.
There was nothing wrong with the old exit numbers! Nothing was broken! So exit 27 will become exit 195 or some such thing.
Some idiot thought it was a good idea to reflect miles traveled in the exit numbers.
Google Maps and Next Exit can show you the distance between exits. Personally, I have never needed to know. Something I need to know is how far to the next restroom, something that highway designers have never heard of.
The highest wear and tear on an engine comes from the corrosive chemicals formed in the cylinders when your turn it off and it starts to cool a little. An engine will show little wear if run constantly.
Yep. I turn it off when in rental cars. I don’t have it in my cars.
Comically, For decades I’ve turned off my car manually when at a long light or stopped in traffic for extended periods. But the auto feature is dumb. But as you say, being able to set it to “default off” would work fine for me.
It really irritates me that it is a government regulation. I thought it was a feature manufacturers just thought people would like. Like heated seats.
I’ve been saying that for years.
A BASIC TRANSPORTATION automobile.
My first car had no radio, no carpet (rubber mat), no Air Conditioner, stick shift, no power windows, steering, brakes or anything, and it was affordable to me an E-1 in the Marines............
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