Disabling stop start

I reckon there will be a market for retro cars soon from before all this technology took over. As someone mentioned earlier a lot of people change vehicles every two or three years. I don't and I usually buy something eight to ten years old and run it into the ground. Trouble is eight year old cars now already have all these features that nobody really needed and they start to go wrong. If they happen to be part of the MOT test then it could be an expensive repair just to fix something you never needed.

I think I'll buy a 1980s Ford Fiesta next that you can open and start with a teaspoon. :D
 
barryd said:
I reckon there will be a market for retro cars soon from before all this technology took over. As someone mentioned earlier a lot of people change vehicles every two or three years. I don't and I usually buy something eight to ten years old and run it into the ground. Trouble is eight year old cars now already have all these features that nobody really needed and they start to go wrong. If they happen to be part of the MOT test then it could be an expensive repair just to fix something you never needed.

I think I'll buy a 1980s Ford Fiesta next that you can open and start with a teaspoon. :D
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Jes nooooo not a fiesta, we had one from new, pile of s-it, get your hands on a real car.
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I wasn't fan when we bought this Fiesta, but I leave it on most of the time, if we are in stop start traffic I just press the button and turn it off, not to save the mechanics but what's left of my sanity.
 
When I had my Trooper (T4) I had to take it to the local (ish) VW commercial garage and leave it overnight to get the passenger airbag disabled - it involved buying a £60 "bit" which had to come from Germany.
They lent me a new T5/6 (or whatever it was) van and it was a nightmare. It's the only thing I've ever driven with this stop/start technology and it was only shortly before I took it back that I realised it wasn't me stalling the engine at every junction and stopped turning the key to re-start it every time.
 
I just love it all, it was the best thing I've done in a long time buying a Vito for Anita to do shopping. The only fault I've found is that it doesn't steer its self unless I let Anita drive. ;)

But seriously when buying one of these new vehicles. Make sure it has electric heating or you'll be buying one of those expensive battery boxes to run a hair dryer to demist the windows?
 
trevskoda said:
Jes nooooo not a fiesta, we had one from new, pile of s-it, get your hands on a real car.View attachment 111992
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Yeah your right Trev. I had one for a while in the early 90s. Total rubbish. Best old school car I had was a MK4 deisel golf we had as a run around for about 12 years. Indestructible. Sadly it was the electrics that let it down in the end. I reckon the 1.9tdi would have gone on for a hundred years.
 
It's fine if a little sluggish on hills we never get less than 55mpg and have had 62 on a good run, and it's worth £2k more than we paid for it now.
 
barryd said:
Yeah your right Trev. I had one for a while in the early 90s. Total rubbish. Best old school car I had was a MK4 deisel golf we had as a run around for about 12 years. Indestructible. Sadly it was the electrics that let it down in the end. I reckon the 1.9tdi would have gone on for a hundred years.
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1.9 was the best diesel engine on the go, the new 2 ltr is not as good and gives trouble, late seventies to mid nineties was the best cars built, even VW AUDI group have went down hill big time.
 
SquirrellCook said:
I just love it all, it was the best thing I've done in a long time buying a Vito for Anita to do shopping. The only fault I've found is that it doesn't steer its self unless I let Anita drive. ;)

But seriously when buying one of these new vehicles. Make sure it has electric heating or you'll be buying one of those expensive battery boxes to run a hair dryer to demist the windows?
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Vito anita sounds like a heathy morning breakfast Musely. 😂
 
Worst car I had was a VW 1303 yellow bottle, handled like a drunk pig on an ice ring, drank fuel like mad, had poor brakes and a clutch which slipped if you gave it a good hammering round our twisty roads through the gears.
 
Why don’t folks like the stop star systems? I know I was a bit wary of it first couple of times out but then I just forgot about it and let it do it’s thing. 3 years and it never missed a beat, it just worked
 
Nabsim said:
Why don’t folks like the stop star systems? I know I was a bit wary of it first couple of times out but then I just forgot about it and let it do it’s thing. 3 years and it never missed a beat, it just worked
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For me it's annoying when stuff shuts down (phone/tablet/sat nav etc etc)
And on the citroen it does it when vehicle is still warming up
And when I want the Aircon staying running to clear screens etc...

And frankly in my day to day driving it doesn't save me any fuel 300 odd miles up and down the M6 each day....
 
mistericeman said:
For me it's annoying when stuff shuts down (phone/tablet/sat nav etc etc)
And on the citroen it does it when vehicle is still warming up
And when I want the Aircon staying running to clear screens etc...

And frankly in my day to day driving it doesn't save me any fuel 300 odd miles up and down the M6 each day....
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I never get anywhere near what manufacturers give for fuel consumption so no idea if it actually saved me any fuel, the Vauxhall system I had in two Astras seemed to work properly though so maybe some manufacturers haven’t got it right?
I would want to switch it off if it behaved like yours lol, maybe I was just spoilt 👍
 
What I find incredible is by the sound of it there isn't a simple switch to turn it off on a lot of the vehicles discussed. Even my little Honda scooter just has a simple rocker switch to turn it on or off. I wonder why they made it so difficult
 
Nabsim said:
Why don’t folks like the stop star systems? I know I was a bit wary of it first couple of times out but then I just forgot about it and let it do it’s thing. 3 years and it never missed a beat, it just worked
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Just weight to its 15/20 years old and round the clock 3 times, it may start to have problems, LOL.
 
Nabsim said:
Why don’t folks like the stop star systems? I know I was a bit wary of it first couple of times out but then I just forgot about it and let it do it’s thing. 3 years and it never missed a beat, it just worked
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Because you have to sit in gear revving it because there is a audi tt next to you and when the flag/lights change it a burn out to the next set. 😂
 
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