Every time I rent a car I want to turn it off. But then I realized I’m only renting it. The long term wear and tear is not my problem...so I don’t care...
So you lose your air conditioning when stopped at a light ?
Cycle must be hell on compressor
You’d care if it failed to start afterwards! Which happened to my wife 2 times with ours. So stupid. You had to hit the button to shut down like normal, then restart the vehicle to get it going again. We typically turn it off, but sometimes you forget.
Does added wear and tear add to the costs incurred by the rental company? Do they pass that cost onto their customers?
Don’t care?
Damned thing nearly got me into a wreck in a rental ‘cuz it’s so stupid slow starting! Absolutely it’s a hazard, and auto insurance ought to be charging higher rates for customers whose cars have this. Maybe A LOT higher.
I went to pull out into traffic from a stop, and — nothing. Just... zilch. Dead air.
In any other car, ZERO issue getting quite safely into traffic with the substantial gap available to me. Not with this “feature” enabled.
I took my foot off the brake and hit the gas in a cadence that would be perfectly fine in any normal vehicle; even a 20’ box truck. Instead, the stupid car — with my foot off the brake now buried deep in the accelerator demanding action — rolled feebly out into the intersection as a seeming eternity passed, oncoming traffic loomed, gobbling up the last couple hundred feet between us, beginning to feather their brakes, and an otherwise easy opportunity morphed into an increasingly dangerous SNAFU.
The starter kicked the engine to life in the last fading spilt second and I made full demand of all 325 turbocharged horsepower the damned thing could muster — along with a helping of traction control — to correct for its laggardly performance.
Never again on that week long trip did I forget to DISABLE that infernal “feature” whenever I got in.
I WOULD NEVER OWN a car that had this feature if it could not be DISABLED; preferably PERMANENTLY. Absolutely NEVER.