I know nothing of these setups, other than to say that I had a BMW 3 series as a rental this past weekend that had that infernal “shut off the engine at every stop” feature which I was able to disable, thank goodness.
As for a special battery because they do this, I’m calling BS. I have often wondered if it’s harder on the battery and starter in cars with this feature, or if the starter is somehow re-engineered because of the much higher duty cycle. -D > On Sep 26, 2022, at 1:23 PM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Took the Subaru for its service today, since we just put 3865 miles on it, > and I overheard an interesting conversation. A Karen had brought in her > Outback because it didn’t restart after having shut itself off at a > stoplight. The service girl was telling her these cars that shut themselves > off at lights to save gasoline require “special” batteries that Subaru would > gladly sell her at $450 a pop. > I wanted to stroll over and toss the bullshit flag, but I wasn’t 100% > certain. > I know nothing about this shutoff feature other than it annoys me and I don’t > really like it because that was my first thought: when the battery starts to > die it’s going to die at an intersection in Phoenix when it’s 118, ambient. > These don’t require a special battery do they? > > AZBob > > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
