I haven't seen one where this can't be disabled as a setting. Assume you've checked? If not imagine someone has found a hack for this.

I bought a car in December that does this. Literally all you have to do is let off the brake wait half a second to 1 second and it starts right back up not a big deal. Just maybe you know have a slight bit of patience in your driving.

I have been renting a lot of cars lately. The hybrids do the best job because hybrid. The gas cars can be hit or miss. A jeep renegade I rented did ok except that sometimes it would auto stop, sometimes it wouldn't. You had to be stopped and the. Push the brake a little harder to engage.

I have a Volvo and if you stop at a pace other than very gentle, it will shut off the engine before you've stopped moving. That one is annoying.

Got a newer Volvo as a loaner and the baby hybrid system in them is FAR better. You can't even really hear it start up. I believe it doesn't have a traditional starter, you hear almost nothing when you start it for the first time. It just kind of goes from being off to running without any sound or vibration. Very weird but kinda cool.

Each system is a little different, some are not very good, others you don't even notice.

That feature never affected my driving at all and never bothered me at all. In fact I don't think I ever remembered that it was a thing after the first week or two.

Every car I've ever driven with such a feature only shuts off when in neutral and you let go of the clutch. For short stops, I just stay in first gear and keep the clutch pressed.

I'm guessing they have a bunch of oil squirters engineered into the design but seems to me that constantly letting oil drain into the crank case while sitting then firing up again is going to cause a short life for these engines.

I've only riden in two vehicles that have this idiotic feature but they could both be disabled after the initial startup.

Wash your hands after you truckburete

I had a 3000 RPM idle once on my car (efi, not carb) and I was happy that day.

We'd spent weeks replacing the engine. High idle was from cracked intake plenum but at least the car finally ran again. Plenum crack got stuffed promptly and then it idled normally.

Been a while, but this can also work on the starter. Just a suggestion, keep the hammer weight under 2lbs.

Don't do this. If you unclog the filter the next stop for the junk you knocked loose is the engine.

Fuel filters are cheap and easy to replace.

I don't think that's true anymore with modern engines. It's my understanding that the on / off strain is no longer a limiting factor on engine wear and that the emissions and fuel saving benefits may be mild but are real from a net efficiency standpoint. While emissions savings are probably the greatest, I'm using this primarily to save anything I can with wartime gas prices.

Turning on and off increases wear in cars not designed for it. The cars that have the feature have beefy starters, it is a non-issue. And it does save a bit of gas and emissions at red lights, and stopped in traffic, and especially for assholes that leave the car on while their partner goes for a "quick" grocery run.

I was thinking about this while driving my hybrid (Hyundai Santa Fe) after watching Technology Connections (and/or Connextras) video about hybrid powertrains.

My car stops its engine when it's not needed. But then it starts back up so smoothly? How? There's no cranking. It just goes, already at matching revs.

But then I realized that an electric motor is a starter. Duh.

Really recommend the videos (and channels) for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.

The hybrid power train really is an amazingly simple thing.

Oh, regen braking? Just as I had thought, it's basically engine braking. Except when you're engine braking in an ice car, that energy is all wasted as heat and noise...in electric/hybrid, your motor turns into an Eaton Crank Radio, powered by the momentum of the wheels.

I used to drive ever-so-gently trying to minimize using the gas engine. But he made it so obvious that that's the wrong way to do it. All the energy that the car uses comes from gas, and it either gets used to push the car forward, or to recharge the batteries...and charging the batteries is a conversion step with its own implicit losses.

Yeah, but how many degrees of overlap?!

go European and you can be one of those guys in an old car with mechanical fuel injection and you'll have a whole different set of problems.