Yes. Several of my wife's coworkers have had their new cars modded not to do that.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
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Yes. Several of my wife's coworkers have had their new cars modded not to do that.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
There's usually a way to turn it off. Auto stop/start can drive you insane trying to get into a tight parking spot, between the beeps for proximity and the AS/S it can get bananas quick, especially if you're trying to be fast, like on a busy road with cars waiting to pass.
Yep. Even had to order a defeat module for the latest ride.Quote:
Originally Posted by Touring_Sedan
ASS sucks ass.
I bitch when mine doesn't shut off for whatever reason. Anyone that cannot handle the off/on shouldn't be driving. Turn in your license and you sure as hell shouldn't be skiing either. Wtf is wrong with you!?Quote:
Originally Posted by Touring_Sedan
I feel like among folks who have driven carbourated vehicles, the lack of inherent trust that it'll turn back on when the light turns green, is a big blocker to adoption. I'm kinda with the boomers on this one.
Why? Seems fine to me, and sure as shit I get maybe 4-6 mpg better than the last model of my truck that didn’t have it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Core Shot
My new Bronco has that auto-stop-start. I like it. Nice and quiet at traffic lights. I have a manual transmission, and it activates with the clutch pedal.
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ASS is fine, until your battery fails. My wife’s brand new Suby fleet car burned through a battery in months. She stopped at a light, ASS system shut down, and would not restart the car because the battery was dead. She had to use a jump-starter battery pack in the middle of traffic. Coasted in neutral at the next lights with her foot reving the gas to keep it running.
When the car in front of you dies because the stop/start failed and you have to wait for it to get towed you'd have a thing against it too. Nope, couldn't go around because it was a construction area with concrete barriers on both sides. That's why it took so long, tow truck had to back in. That sucked.
My Honda ASS only works if the battery is fully charged. It's still annoying if in stop and go traffic or going through a bunch of stop signs - but that's why there's an on/off switch right there next to the gear selector. (Can't call it a shifter, it's just a series of buttons.)Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyoverland Captive
Same. The ASS in my Audi also defaults to off if the A/C is on or if the heat is on high.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Chupacabra
Yeah, that's not the fault of ASS, that's just a shit battery. That would have happened in the drive through or the school pickup line.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyoverland Captive
If you're too fucking stupid to figure out how to initiate a restart with a tickle of the brake pedal you migh be a boomer. I'm sure your kids are having "the conversation" about what to do with Dad's keys.
I'm calling bullshit on this story.Quote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
"I got stuck behind a broken down car on the highway, of course it was the ASS. I would have gone around them but there was a dead Eskimo on the right, and the pope was giving a blessing on the left."
I lightly chuckled.
Dead Eskimos and the Pope? Heckuva thing you got going on there dude, obviously you've got better weed than I do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Touring_Sedan
15 minutes sitting there with headlights on and listening to tunes and whatever else and she never took her foot off the brake so the lights were on too, is it any wonder that a beater Jeep shit the bed when it did?
Yeah, not sure I buy the reasoning that because the car might not start every 100,000th time or whatever that it's bad technology.
If I sit stationary in traffic for long enough, the ASS will turn the car back on (without any action by me). Doesn't seem like a particularly complicated bit of programming.
Dunno about ASS, but the remote start with auto-shutoff on my Chevy half ton works just fine. Don’t think the tech is all that much different.
I don’t worry about turning the vehicle off at traffic lights, but drive-thru’s or other such stop and start traffic, you bet. Haven’t stalled a vehicle since learning to drive dad’s ‘81 Toyota (carbureted) pickup.
ASS can be rough on batteries, it has to use juice for every start and unless you mix in some long cruises the alternator often can't keep up with use.If you mainly use your car around town and there's traffic you're putting a hurt on the battery.
Do you wear anything under the Bogner one-pice or just your birthday suit?Quote:
Originally Posted by klauss
The ASS on my Tesla has been flawless.
Again, bullshit. The CCA's of modern batteries are more than adequate to fire off a 4 banger at every traffic light in Manhattan. Also, I have yet to be in a car with ASS that doesn't have a decent handle on where the capacity is and thereby defeating the system if necessary.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
I get it, change is hard.
This seems like the kind of thing people would do who also hoarded incandescent light bulbs while they were still available.Quote:
Originally Posted by chicken feathers
when you go away to ski refrozen bumps and it snows feet back home.
Derp.Quote:
Originally Posted by ex-powderbroker