For fun, I left it enabled this entire trip. 14 days, 3850 miles. The car shut itself off for 23 minutes, approximately, and saved a reported 0.195 gallons of fuel.
AZBob Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 26, 2022, at 10:31 AM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________ 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
