Jump to content

engine stop start

kent sparrow

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 72
  • Created
  • Last Reply
J-man67 Senior Enthusiast

J-man67

Posted
Posted

It's on the hood latch? I don't care where it is... I'd disable it.  I fuggin despise that system.  My fiancée's new Wrangler has it and I hate it!

GMC-AT Senior Enthusiast

GMC-AT

Posted
Posted

How many of you guys that actually drive a 2019 GM truck still hate this? My understanding is the system is a lot better than most older ones. 

RAYS B4U Enthusiast

RAYS B4U

Posted
Posted
46 minutes ago, GMC-AT said:

How many of you guys that actually drive a 2019 GM truck still hate this? My understanding is the system is a lot better than most older ones. 

I don't hate it and I've pretty much gotten used to it.  About the only time I disable it is when I'm in heavy stop & go traffic.

smit303 Enthusiast

smit303

Posted
Posted

I don't hate it. Strong dislike. Still trying to get in the habit of hitting the button after starting. Slow learner.  I would disable hood switch if this is a cure and it doesn't affect anything else. I've got 2100 miles.

Jeffro19 Enthusiast

Jeffro19

Posted
Posted

It Works really good actually. But sometimes I do turn it off on the way home from work in slow stop and go traffic. But other than that I keep it on all the time. 

Booger T Enthusiast

Booger T

Posted
Posted

I don't think it's that bad, I usually turn it off if I remember but if I don't it's not that big of deal. Don't really notice it much if I do forget. Don't really understand what the big deal about it is.

towdog333 Enthusiast

towdog333

Posted
Posted

I don't really mind it , and where I live you do a lot of stop and go driving which kills fuel mileage, with it on I think I actually get better mileage.

Shawnr487 Enthusiast

Shawnr487

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, starman8tdc said:

I would probably run a toggle switch on it. 

You would run a toggle switch to turn off the start stop feature? Why not just use the toggle switch from the factory and turn it off each time 

Supreme Pizza Senior Enthusiast

Supreme Pizza

Posted
Posted
12 minutes ago, Shawnr487 said:

You would run a toggle switch to turn off the start stop feature?  Why not just use the toggle switch from the factory and turn it off each time 

 

   I think that comment would apply to the original question more than it would apply to my toggle switch idea.  No?

 

  

Supreme Pizza Senior Enthusiast

Supreme Pizza

Posted
Posted

The idea is to shut the option off, without permanently disabling it. Removing the hood switch is not a great option, because when you go to sell the truck in 10 years, that feature doesn't work - and you misplaced the hood switch years ago. Now your trying to explain to the buyer why stuff doesn't work, or paying dealer prices for a hard to find part. With the toggle switch, each driver can have a choice and each owner can have a choice - without having to fix stuff or turn an annoying feature off each time they start the rig. 

 

Plus switches are cool. 

 

 

 

s-l1600.jpg

s-l1600 (1).jpg

s-l1600 (3).jpg

s-l1600 (2).jpg

CptCook Enthusiast

CptCook

Posted
Posted
3 hours ago, starman8tdc said:

The idea is to shut the option off, without permanently disabling it. Removing the hood switch is not a great option, because when you go to sell the truck in 10 years, that feature doesn't work - and you misplaced the hood switch years ago. Now your trying to explain to the buyer why stuff doesn't work, or paying dealer prices for a hard to find part. With the toggle switch, each driver can have a choice and each owner can have a choice - without having to fix stuff or turn an annoying feature off each time they start the rig. 

 

Plus switches are cool. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ummmm,  Starman, the small bit you are missing is that there is already a factory installed switch on the center stack of the dashboard.

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

  • Latest Articles

  • Posts

    • Grumpy Bear
      OCI, not when but why?

      By Grumpy Bear · Posted

      I just spent the last 45K miles doing samples every oil change over more than a full year to get the data for seasons and break-in to broke in.    I found the same thing to be true. Something was always teetering on done or had stepped off the cliff long before the OLM was DOA. In fact, I found about a thousand mile difference between summer and winter. That is during the winter half the OLM was STILL too long. Even the severe schedule was to long in the winter.   Now having done the work I can say I was NOT DISAPOINTED. I saw nothing I didn't already know. Nothing my father hadn't already demonstrated in his 2K OCI's pushing dated iron on dated oils and weak filters to mileages well beyond 300K.   Building on his work through use of Lab testing it wasn't hard to find the correlation between 'sight/feel/odor, the things dad relied on, and test results. Use of current viscosity stable chemistries & filters has pushed that marker for my motors out to 3K summer, 4K winter.    So the early lies were 3K on conventional oil and the lie upon the lie was 7K+. turns out to be off by a factor of two.    So... it is true that modern chemistry has doubled the useful oil life. But the base milage that came from was off by double. It's how good lies work. Partly true, sometimes mostly true so that your meter isn't set off. It also means that non-shear-stable shelf oils are only now as good as the old oils were in their best case scenario.    So the question now is how do we improve on that? Thus the question into cleanliness among the other items listed in the post quoted below.    If this bores you, feel free not to participate.       
    • newdude
      2027 Chevrolet Silverado: Official Discussion

      By newdude · Posted

      Is it though?  Like LTZ, not a high take rate.  Current Sierra has AT4, Denali and Elevation as its main bread winners.  Each trim accounting for 25-35% of sales for Sierra.  SLT makes up about 10-15% at best.        Like others have predicted here for GMC, it will be:   - Pro (equal to WT Chevy)   - Elevation (replaces SLE and SLT)   - AT4 (and X)   - Denali (and Ultimate).  
    • Atlas
      OCI, not when but why?

      By Atlas · Posted

      Coming back to this question, *my* answer is no, it's not something about which I'm knowledgeable. I'd need to read up on it and understand how it applies to we the consumer and our oil change regimens.   One of your bolded points is that fresh oil in a container contains particulate matter. I don't think I'm surprised, maybe a little bit that it seems to be a major factor, but there's manufacturing process involved in oil and it doesn't exactly come in sterile packaging.    How much is filtered out on the first start by an acceptable quality filter (AC Delco, as a baseline) filter?   On the GM OLM discussion, just saying that the "number of engine revolutions" appears to be a factor in oil life... cough... maybe driving style *does* matter.    
    • GMTruckGuy74
      2027 Chevrolet Silverado: Official Discussion

      By GMTruckGuy74 · Posted

      GMC has been revising their trim level names over the past several years. Sierra Pro has taken over the Work Truck/SL trim name; Elevation has replaced the SLE (and with the Premium upgrade, SLT) in the SUV lineup of late; AT4/AT4 Ultimate and Denali/Denali Ultimate have been the top of the line in off road luxury and on-road luxury respectively for the full-size pickups and SUVs.    SL, SLE, SLT nomenclatures are gone in the Sierra truck line. Mark my words.
    • GMTruckGuy74
      2027 Chevrolet Silverado: Official Discussion

      By GMTruckGuy74 · Posted

      GMC has been revising their trim level names over the past several years. Sierra Pro has taken over the Work Truck/SL trim name; Elevation has replaced the SLE (and with the Premium upgrade, SLT) in the SUV lineup of late; AT4/AT4 Ultimate and Denali/Denali Ultimate have been the top of the line in off road luxury and on-road luxury respectively for the full-size pickups and SUVs.    SL, SLE, SLT nomenclatures are gone in the Sierra truck line. Mark my words.

  • GM-Trucks.com Clubs

  • Popular Contributors

×
×
  • Create New...