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Technical Stop Start Story

Most Easterly Pandas said:
So sticking it on a pulse charge is unlikely to improve the SS cutout duration?
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Have you not been following Mick's story? ;)

It'll probably help, but it's not a magic wand.

It'll likely mean you get through this winter; after that it's anyone's guess.

Budgeting £30 or so each year towards the inevitable battery replacement isn't so bad, though. At least pads & discs are cheap on the 1.2, whch goes some way to offsetting the battery cost. :)
 
Most Easterly Pandas said:
Not really, Toyota have already ditched it and made other changes instead to bring emissions down, I can see some other manufactures following.
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I think looking at toyotas website, everything tries to push buyers towards hybrid models. If you want any of the better options you're almost forced to buy a hybrid.

That said Toyota have been developing this tech for years so are in a good position to do this, I can't see other manufactures dropping stop start (not at the moment at least) as with the likes of Mercedes with 6.3 engines and fiat who won't even bring an electric model to the UK they've already developed. Manufactures aren't going all out to push new technology if they don't have to, Toyota seem to be the only people really pushing forwards with the new tech, and most cars with stop start only have it for academic reasons basically for that Co2 emissions test
 
AndyRKett said:
fiat who won't even bring an electric model to the UK they've already developed.
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Probably because they loose money on every one they sell. It only exists to give Fiat access to the Californian market.
 
handy thing is checking th brake switch as well if it loses voltage ss will not work
 
jrkitching said:
Have you not been following Mick's story? ;)
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Just a (hopefully) final update.

My story seems to be complete.
We haven't driven Rosa much since the new battery went in, but today we did about 20miles, and when we stopped at a mini mart, Mrs Mick F got out, picked up a couple of items, queued up, paid, came back out, and Rosa was still stopped.

Could have been four minutes, and started again at the depression of the clutch pedal.

Best wishes for the season,
Mick.
 
Mick F said:
Just a (hopefully) final update.

My story seems to be complete.
We haven't driven Rosa much since the new battery went in, but today we did about 20miles, and when we stopped at a mini mart, Mrs Mick F got out, picked up a couple of items, queued up, paid, came back out, and Rosa was still stopped.

Could have been four minutes, and started again at the depression of the clutch pedal.

Best wishes for the season,
Mick.
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Yay! (y)
 
Mick F said:
Just a (hopefully) final update.

My story seems to be complete.
We haven't driven Rosa much since the new battery went in, but today we did about 20miles, and when we stopped at a mini mart, Mrs Mick F got out, picked up a couple of items, queued up, paid, came back out, and Rosa was still stopped.

Could have been four minutes, and started again at the depression of the clutch pedal.

Best wishes for the season,
Mick.
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Good you got the car sorted. I would probably put a new battery in our motor if we planned to keep it much longer, warranty period ends in a couple of months, so be getting rid soon.
Mick, can I ask why you call the car 'Rosa'. Looks like you are ages with me, and I have never felt the need to name a car anything, and don't know anyone who does.
Sorry if this offends you, just keen to know why a mature, sensible man would choose to give a machine a name.
 
wellfan said:
Sorry if this offends you, just keen to know why a mature, sensible man would choose to give a machine a name.
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No offence at all!

I'm a mature 62 year old ex RN, married for 41+ years, two grown-up girls, living here in Cornwall for the past 30years.

We've always had names for things, especially cars. Going back to 1980, we bought a Mini in Peridot Green metallic. We called her Dottie.

Then a Talbot Samba in Tartan Green, we called her Morag.
Then a Talbot Horizon in Cherry Red and we called Blossom.
Next a Peugeot 205 in (?) Green, and we called him Lennie - due to the lion on the front. (Lennie the Lion)
Then a variety of Minis - estates and saloons, named Pixel, Bilbo, Miss Brown and Norman (don't ask!!)
We still have the Clio - a nice cherry red colour. We couldn't call her Blossom, but as she is French, we call her Fleur.
Now we have the Pasadoble Red 500. The Italian name for the colour is Cheeky Red, but we've called her Rosa - Italian for red.

Makes sense?
It does to us!

Regards,
Mick.
 
Mick F said:
No offence at all!

I'm a mature 62 year old ex RN, married for 41+ years, two grown-up girls, living here in Cornwall for the past 30years.

We've always had names for things, especially cars. Going back to 1980, we bought a Mini in Peridot Green metallic. We called her Dottie.

Then a Talbot Samba in Tartan Green, we called her Morag.
Then a Talbot Horizon in Cherry Red and we called Blossom.
Next a Peugeot 205 in (?) Green, and we called him Lennie - due to the lion on the front. (Lennie the Lion)
Then a variety of Minis - estates and saloons, named Pixel, Bilbo, Miss Brown and Norman (don't ask!!)
We still have the Clio - a nice cherry red colour. We couldn't call her Blossom, but as she is French, we call her Fleur.
Now we have the Pasadoble Red 500. The Italian name for the colour is Cheeky Red, but we've called her Rosa - Italian for red.

Makes sense?
It does to us!

Regards,
Mick.
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Sorry Mick. Makes no sense to me, I have had well over 40 cars. But each to their own. Life is enriched by us all being different. So good for you. But I'll keep referring to my car as just the fecking car.
 
:):)
Our cars have always had personalities.
I know they are all made up of mechanical bits and bobs, but each one is different in its own way.

Regards to you,
Mick.
 
wellfan said:
Sorry Mick. Makes no sense to me, I have had well over 40 cars. But each to their own. Life is enriched by us all being different. So good for you. But I'll keep referring to my car as just the fecking car.
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Lots of research suggests that cars with names are better looked after and serviced on average more often with better care taken than cars without names.

Arround 40% of people name there cars including a large number of celebrities and films like gone in sixty seconds are built around a named car.

Apparently Land rovers are more likely to have a name than any other brand and yellow is the most popular colour for cars that are named.

As for "sorry if this offends you" with comments like
wellfan said:
But each to their own. Life is enriched by us all being different. So good for you.
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Clearly your intention is to cause offence or just be obnoxious, what ever the case it's completley irrelevent what you think In this situation as it bares no relation whatsoever to the rest of the thread.
Let's move on shall we ;)
 
AndyRKett said:
As for "sorry if this offends you" with comments like

Clearly your intention is to cause offence or just be obnoxious, what ever the case it's completley irrelevent what you think In this situation as it bares no relation whatsoever to the rest of the thread.
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I didn't read wellfan's comment that way; it seemed genuine to me.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion & I can understand that some folks think it's pointless to give names to inanimate objects.

FWIW, though, I give names to all manner of stuff - some of my friends think it's childish, but I think it makes life more colourful.
 
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Well I'm happy to inform Mick F (and anyone else) that he has completely erroneously named his Red car "Rosa" - Rosa is in fact the Italian for PINK and indeed Fiat do offer a pink 500 for the few Lady Penelope fans who wish to possess one (there is one that parks down the street from me and IMO it looks vile... but the middle-aged female owner would no doubt disagree).

"Rosso" (or "Rossa for feminine articles) is of course the Italian for RED. But we knew that anyway I'm sure...

There's even someone on the (500) Forum who bizarrely calls himself "Piccolo Nero e Bella) which makes no grammatic sense at all since it should either be "Piccolo Nero e Bello" if the thing he is describing is masculine, or "Piccola Nera e Bella" if it is feminine (and a "macchina" is indeed feminine).

By the way, all of the above is fact, and not just opinionated internet hypothesis...
 
Good for you Mick. Take no notice of the few detractors - they are out of sync.
All boats have names where I keep mine, and as I had a couple of small transfers left over when I had finished garnishing my boat I stuck them on my Panda. It's now 'Candyfloss'.
OK, it won't help the coastguard if I drop my Panda in the harbour, but it makes my neighbours smile!
 
jrkitching said:
I knew a girl named Prudence once. ;)
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Bet you daren't call your car Prudence!
As for boats, it pays to have a name that's clear and simple, for obvious emergency reasons.
Nothing to do with the thread, but I thought I'd lighten the atmosphere.
 
wellfan said:
In all my 57 years I have yet to meet anyone family, friend, acquaintance, or whatever who has given their car a name.
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You mean you don't know anyone who's admitted it :D

I like the way UK magazines refer to cars by their number plate. Since UFI is on a 'retro' plate that must start with either an X or U, I chose FI (for Fiat), and he became UFI, which I think sounds a bit Italian. If I'm working on him and things don't go right it's a lot more fun to swear at something with a proper noun. In my best Italian accent: Hey, UFI, why you such a bastard?

I also have a EMM-4 plate so that one is Emma. My Jeep has BYK which means bull, but I don't use it as a proper noun.
 
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