Not that I've ever heard. Wife's car has that stop/start and it has a standard-looking 12v lead/acid battery.
I hate it too. I always disable it when I'm driving. Can't see how the pennies in gas it might save offsets all the extra wear on the starter. On Mon, Sep 26, 2022, at 12:23, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes 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
