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[tidla]

After driving one today, I decided to look up the benefits.

As the engine is stationary and not running, this reduces the CO2 emissions and as such reduces the vehicle excise duty.

As i only use my 3.0 omega once a week to get the shopping in, im due a VED tax rebate.

[zirk]

Yep, sounds like a plan, in fact Im going to get more VED discount by pulling out a couple of spark plugs, after all a miss fire with unburnt fuel should produce less CO2. 

[ronnyd]

In your dreams also stop/start is a PITA.

[tunnie]

I usually disable mine, only turning it on at sections of road or lights I know have long waits.

Has its benefit though, £30/year VED 

[VXL V6]

Hated it on every vehicle I've driven with it. Interesting when you go to pull out of a busy junction and it decides to kill the ignition just as you go to press the throttle....
 

[STEMO]

Just switch it off...or let your foot rest on the clutch pedal a tiny bit. The parameters for it to actually work mean it doesn't most of the time anyway....not in town driving anyway.

[TheBoy]

Hated it on every vehicle I've driven with it. Interesting when you go to pull out of a busy junction and it decides to kill the ignition just as you go to press the throttle....

Absolute work of Satin.  Plus the biggest reason, I reckon, why only 2 cars ever get through any set of lights nowadays.

[Viral_Jim]

Yup, couple it with a small capacity turbo engine and it's little short of an assisted suicide button.

Pull up to a roundabout. See a gap, push the accelerator -PAUSE- engine starts -PAUUUSE- turbo lag. Oh, I've just pulled out in front of an HGV. 

The fact it defaults to ON is the single biggest bugbear I have with SWMBO's yeti.

[STEMO]

Nah. If you pull up at a roundabout, you're not going to put it into neutral and fully let the clutch out. Stop/start is quite easy to control if you know how to use it. I only drive the wife's captur to pit fuel in it and it's never stopped on me.

[Viral_Jim]

Except the yeti is DSG so you have to feather the throttle enough to keep it alive but without moving forward, which, I assume is also riding the box's clutch(es).

Foot on the brake, or no feet (hill hold engages) and the engine cuts.

TBH I am making a bit much of it. It's a more acute problem for me because I haven't generally had it on my own cars. Other than the BMW, but I drive that mostly in sport plus, which disengages it.

[STEMO]

You can always turn it off as soon as you get in the car. Can't really understand people moaning about flicking a switch before driving off, but that's the society we live in.
A good war would sort the bastards out.

[STEMO]

If it's dark, wifey's car switches on the lights. If it's raining, it puts on the wipers.
I have to press buttons in mine. Such a nuisance, it sometimes makes me late for appointments. 

[Varche]

It all just promotes laziness and lack of thinking.

It is getting dark... put your lights on

It is raining..put your wipers on

The lights are going to change, engage brain, clutch, gear, look out for pedestrians ....
 Or in reality. Text mate, polish nails, have a shave, beggar the lights have changedback to red. Give driver behind finger for pipping horn.

Wont b long before we sot in he back seat and driving is done by a machine.

[tunnie]

Except the yeti is DSG so you have to feather the throttle enough to keep it alive but without moving forward, which, I assume is also riding the box's clutch(es).

Foot on the brake, or no feet (hill hold engages) and the engine cuts.

TBH I am making a bit much of it. It's a more acute problem for me because I haven't generally had it on my own cars. Other than the BMW, but I drive that mostly in sport plus, which disengages it.

Bring the Yeti to me, I can disable start/stop permanently.   

[Viral_Jim]

Bring the Yeti to me, I can disable start/stop permanently.   

I really should .

If we keep it beyond its warranty, I'm going to invest in the kit myself, it seems like a really powerful system!