[AT] driver convenience systems

[Gilbert Schwartz]

On the 2019 Jeep Cherokee there is an available button to push to deactivate the start stop system, however, it must be pushed each time the engine is started the first time. I only wish that button would permanently deactivate that start stop system. I cannot help but believe that continual cranking of the engine would be detrimental to the starter and the battery. Now just to remember to "push that button".

> On January 26, 2020 at 12:05 PM Jim Becker <mr.jebecker at gmail.com> wrote:
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>     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).
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>     Worse yet, there isn’t even a hole below the radiator to insert the crank!
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>     Jim Becker
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>     From: Stephen Offiler
>     Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2020 8:34 AM
>     To: Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group
>     Subject: Re: [AT] driver convenience systems
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>     Yes, these stop/start systems appear to be designed for urban "stop and go" traffic where there's lengthy stops between the go's.
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>     SO
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>     On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 8:48 AM Mark Johnson < markjohnson100 at centurylink.net> wrote:
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>         > > 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
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