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Originally Posted by Douggie
I'm not a big fan of this because I feel this adds strain to the car, both mechanically and electrically. Like in all machines and electronics, start-stop/power cycles are the most damaging.
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Yep, I am in the IT business and re-starting hardware regularly is bad, big time.
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Originally Posted by Gatekeeper
It does. But lower emissions is the name of the game now.
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But how much difference does it actually make? Difficult to quantify I suppose because it depends on how long you are standing still for. However, I am convinced that S/S is
not efficient if it switches off for a few seconds only. There is a lot of unused fuel going through an engine on startup.
Bit like a neon light which needs to be switched of for something like an hour before it becomes more efficient than leaving on. Interesting subject, I wonder what the break even point for an engine is?