As it turns out engine auto stop start does not operate if the car is started with the hood open. Number one with a bullet.
Automatic Start Stop Systems Don T Always Play Nice With
Automatic engine idle shutdown. The system must shut down the engine within a threshold inactivity period of 60 seconds or less for vocational vehicles and 300 seconds or less for tractors when all the following conditions are met. It does not check for unsaved work on your system. Automatic engine shutdown and restart systems save you bugger all fuel. Claims by carmakers that you will save any appreciable money are unmitigated bullshit. When that engine shuts off all the electrical contentthe radio the blowers the lights whatever is consuming electricityno longer has the alternator rigby said. Moreover the system remains off even after the hood is closed effectively disabling the system.
With a manual transmission shutdown takes place with the. If you do a lot of stop and go. If you happen to have a file open with unsaved work the shut down is not going to save it first. On that note some apps can and do prevent system shut down if theyre open with unsaved work. A system is idle when there is no user activity and no system processes are active. You can idle your engine all day long and its still not going to cost you as much as a burger and fries.
1 automatic engine shutdown aes systems. I the transmission is set to park or the transmission is in neutral with the parking brake engaged. With an automatic transmission engine shutdown occurs when the vehicle is stopped for several seconds with the brake pedal applied. As the name implies automatic stopstart shuts off the engine instead of it idling at a stop and then rapidly restarts the engine when you want to drive away. So you need a battery that.