[AT] driver convenience systems

[Jim Becker]

In the Equinox, the stop/start system disables itself if you are in a creep/stop/creep/stop situation.  Any time you come to a complete stop, release the brakes momentarily (and maybe you have to move a bit), come to another complete stop it will then not do another auto-stop until after you have been up to some specific speed (which I can’t quote of the top of my head).

Worse yet, there isn’t even a hole below the radiator to insert the crank!

Jim Becker

From: Stephen Offiler 
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2020 8:34 AM
To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group 
Subject: Re: [AT] driver convenience systems

Yes, these stop/start systems appear to be designed for urban "stop and go" traffic where there's lengthy stops between the go's. 

SO


On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 8:48 AM Mark Johnson <markjohnson100 at centurylink.net> wrote:

  On the other hand, I got stuck in traffic last week, next to a guy who 
  could have used the auto-stop feature. We were about 1/2 mile behind a 
  3-car wreck that brought westbound I-70 to a complete stop for over an 
  hour. For almost all of that hour, there was a guy in an F150 in the 
  other lane who sat there idling, in gear, foot on the brake - I could 
  see his brake lights. That can't be very healthy for a transmission.

  And when I say "complete stop" I mean exactly that. For over an hour I 
  didn't even put the car in gear. [In the 40 minutes prior to that, we 
  moved maybe 50 to 100 yards].

  Mark J

  On 1/26/2020 6:09 AM, Stephen Offiler wrote:
  > Count me among the folk that don't like stop/start.  I have more stop 
  > signs than traffic lights on my commute, and not much traffic, so most 
  > of my stops are usually very brief, just to cover the law, if nothing 
  > is coming.  The system decides to shut off the engine at pretty much 
  > the same instant I am deciding to proceed.  Fortunately (for me) my 
  > car defaults to "Sport" mode on startup.  I can manually choose "Eco" 
  > mode which activates stop/start as well as changes shift points and 
  > throttle response; or I can go straight to stop/start but leave it in 
  > Sport.  I find it odd that the car doesn't remember what mode it was 
  > in when you shut down. Fortunately the default is also my preferred mode.
  >
  > SO
  > m
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