Is this a "thing" now?

NoQuarter

So yesterday I was driving along with the car window open and I hadnt yet turned on the oul wireless and in the space of 2 minutes I heard 2 separate cars stopped at traffic lights turn on their engine.

Is that a thing now? Do people turn off their engines while stopped at traffic lights for some reason? Does it save petrol? Could you really be arsed??

If it does save petrol, does it save loads and should we all be doing it?

Should I have posted this in the stingy thread?

Thank you all for your kind words.

In before regurgutated jokes (thinly veiled etc)...

Shzm

Standard feature on some newer cars.

antodeco

Alot of modern cars now turn off their engines when stopped. When you put your foot back on the clutch, it restarts.

NoQuarter wrote: »

In before regurgutated jokes (thinly veiled etc)...

Thinly veiled I dont know how to use google

gobnaitolunacy

I would turn the engine off if I knew I was going to be waiting up to 5 mins esp. at level crossings.

Mr.Crinklewood

You were in a car park. ( or what the above posters said )

NoQuarter

Well, that answers that then. Have a good day all.

MidlandsM

NoQuarter wrote: »

Well, that answers that then. Have a good day all.

of you go in yer banger now........with no stop/start technology!:D:D

NoQuarter

MidlandsM wrote: »

of you go in yer banger now........with no stop/start technology!:D:D

They call it a key!

Back in my day etc...

BillyMitchel

Thinly veiled I have a car.

Woop de focking do.

corktina

yeah staert/stop technology will save you a fortune in petrol (until you need a new starter motor that is...)

NoQuarter

Does anybody actually do this manually? And if so, does it make a difference?

Plazaman

I once turned off my engine at traffic lights then couldn't get the thing started again.

Luckily for me I quickly realised that I wasn't actually in a car but in fact on my bicycle and I wasn't at traffic lights but propped against the wall in my shed bollíxed drunk.

*grumble grumble fancy schmancy look at me and my car thread.....

johnwest288

I heard... if its for over 2 minutes turn your car off. Anything under it uses more petrol to restart your car.
Only summit i heard stand to be corrected

Schism

I'd really want to be stopped for a while to bother turning off the engine manually. Even at a long queue you'll be moving up every minute or two, how much are you really wasting letting it idle?

Open to correction on this one, but I think if you're on a short journey it'd be better for the engine's health to keep it running.

nacimroc

I grew up with a bunch of cars that barely started (had to rev them whilst ticking over aswell) so just couldn't bring myself to doing this by choice.

Hired a car with this on it abroad and I pity the poor guy who buys it in 10 years and spends half his life trying to get it going!

Cee-Jay-Cee

I like to sit at lights revving my engine to the red line in rally start fashion, it can be quite wasteful especially when I'm near the back of the queue but what the hell. I'll consider toning it down when petrol hits €2 a liter which should be any day soon.

Iwannahurl

Plazaman wrote: »

... propped against the wall in my shed bollíxed drunk.

And you hadn't even gone out yet...

krudler

I'd imagine having an engine constantly stop/starting would use more fuel than letting it idle for a minute at a time, does starting a car use an amount of fuel to propel the engine or less?

Angeles

damn you mis-leading title!
Or was i the only one who thought this was related to something new and trendy!..... i'm getting old