It would have been helpful if the article defined the term
The engine automatically stops when you are stopped, and restarts when you take your foot off the brake. That would drive me crazy.
And not to mention the sound, and the wear and tear on the starter and engine.
“The engine automatically stops when you are stopped, and restarts when you take your foot off the brake. That would drive me crazy.”
So that is what that means, I couldn’t understand what the article was talking about.
Why would you want something like that? You’ll be changing out starters every other year.
That explains why sitting at a light I would hear a car/truck start before driving off ... I thought that these people were stalled out.
Thanks. I think the Japanese are required to shut down the engine at red lights. They also are required to replace the engine at a certain mileage, 60k iirc.
Almost 14,000 results for JDM(Japanese Development Market) engine
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l2632&_nkw=jdm+engine&_sacat=6028
I don’t like the globull warming feature. I feel that it will wear out the starter and battery prematurely. All to save about 0.5 MPG.
....not to mention the toll stop/start imposes on your engine, alternator and battery....