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Is your dad Billy Gibbons?Dad's F-150 has a button on the dash to disable, but I wonder if some drive modes will disable it by default. Similar to how my Mustang disables traction control in Track mode.
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Is your dad Billy Gibbons?Dad's F-150 has a button on the dash to disable, but I wonder if some drive modes will disable it by default. Similar to how my Mustang disables traction control in Track mode.
actually all the starting on and off creates some extra wear and tear. Starter, battery, to some degree belts. Ford has a button you can push to override, but you have to enable it every time you start the car.I’m no fan of Start-Stop, but it does have a useful benefit. It saves you cash by not wasting fuel when you don’t need it. Stop lights, drive-throughs, and traffic jams are perfect uses for this technology. I wish you could adjust the delay or make it auto-off, but they have an EPA to please. If it gets too annoying, that Forscan sounds like a way to fix it for good.
If someone is concerned about using an extra gallon of fuel over the course of a year then maybe they should consider a Prius or a Tesla. Consumers paying for these BOF vehicles are skipping over a huge market of unibody minivans such as the Traverse, Highlander, Explorer, and countless others to have a real SUV. Those cars should be the target of bureaucrats, they are already soul sucking front wheel drive unibody snoozeboxes.I’m no fan of Start-Stop, but it does have a useful benefit. It saves you cash by not wasting fuel when you don’t need it. Stop lights, drive-throughs, and traffic jams are perfect uses for this technology. I wish you could adjust the delay or make it auto-off, but they have an EPA to please. If it gets too annoying, that Forscan sounds like a way to fix it for good.
Embarrassing restarts??? Temperamental psyche..Well I’m never going to buy a Hybrid so let them have it and leave the rest of us without the embarrassing restarts.
Money saved is money saved, regardless of the amount. An engine at idle serves little purpose for propulsion. So, on paper, nothing is lost by this feature. Will I find Ford's implementation of it annoying? Possibly. It's just something I don't know at this time.If someone is concerned about using an extra gallon of fuel over the course of a year then maybe they should consider a Prius or a Tesla. Consumers paying for these BOF vehicles are skipping over a huge market of unibody minivans such as the Traverse, Highlander, Explorer, and countless others to have a real SUV. Those cars should be the target of bureaucrats, they are already soul sucking front wheel drive unibody snoozeboxes.
Stop start is providing no increase in fuel economy. Stop/Start is no different than E85 capability in that automakers get a credit for making consumers pay for unnecessary extras. Some bureaucrat decided that automakers should get credit for it and so it was.
Ford doesn’t have to saddle their vehicles with this, no one is forcing them, they are adding this at the detriment of consumers.
They might be saying "it is the Devils work, this technology"?What does devil worship have to do with this?
Miss your quick wit @Used2jeep, hope you're back with us soon.They might be saying "it is the Devils work, this technology"?