Auto Stop and Start
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Mountain Pass
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Auto Stop and Start
Does anyone know if the Bronco (Not Sport) is gonna have the silly big brother auto start stop “feature “ on it? If’n so can it be disabled? I am considering ordering one after I get a substantial down payment saved and I will not abide that stupidity. Thanks in advance for the information.
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Don
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There are photos of the big Bronco dash on the internet with the auto stop-start disable button visible. Interesting that this was even on the manual trans model, although Jeeps and BMW's also use the auto start-stop on manuals.
I don't like the idea of the system but as long as I can disable it I'll survive. I'm a walker and bicyclist in a city and it just feels wrong every time a car starts up leaving a stop sign.
I don't like the idea of the system but as long as I can disable it I'll survive. I'm a walker and bicyclist in a city and it just feels wrong every time a car starts up leaving a stop sign.
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My subconscious mind thinks that someone stalled out or something--sounds not normal when a car in a driving lane starts up. I've been driving since 1970 and had cars that stalled at stop signs and red lights and it was never a good thing 
I think it would also be weird to be in a huge traffic jam with 10,000 cars in it, all with auto stop-start. It would just be so darn "busy" when a lane of traffic started moving, stopped, etc.
I think it would also be weird to be in a huge traffic jam with 10,000 cars in it, all with auto stop-start. It would just be so darn "busy" when a lane of traffic started moving, stopped, etc.
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Laughing Gas
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Wait another 20-30 years and that will be the new normal! Many of the older drivers that remember the panic of stalling a manual will be long gone and the next generations of drivers will take auto stop-start for granted like a horn or turn signal.
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In 20-30 years, the norm is going to be hybrid and electric vehicles moving silently forward...which also creeps me out as a walker and bicyclist. Hopefully cars will have pedestrian and bicylist safety features to compensate for drivers who have lost their situational awareness while driving.
Mountain Pass
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Every car or truck I’ve driven with it had the option to disable it. It does have a measurable impact on your fuel economy, so you might get to like it after a while.
Tuned
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The automatic Broncos I tested had it and there is a button to disable it, you have to disable it every time you start the vehicle. The stick didn't seem to have it but I didn't look for the button.
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but what does the extra wear and tear on the starter and battery cost you? I disable it every time I get in the truck
Mountain Pass
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It was common in the EU for a long time before it came here, so there’s a lot of long-term data showing it doesn’t cause premature wear.
Cargo Master
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It’s a totally different starter design purpose built for this, so that’s negligible. Batteries in vehicles with stop/start are ECM, AGM, or other designs to handle stop/start, so they’re ok too, and usually have a warranty similar to older/standard. Even the way it starts the engine is different to reduce risk of premature engine wear.
It was common in the EU for a long time before it came here, so there’s a lot of long-term data showing it doesn’t cause premature wear.
It was common in the EU for a long time before it came here, so there’s a lot of long-term data showing it doesn’t cause premature wear.
Long term data doesn't mean jack- common sense says the more you use it the faster it fails..........
Laughing Gas
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Lol, it's called engineering, that's exactly what engineers do, they use long term data to design a better part that meets requirements, i.e. more uses due to stop-start feature WOW