Robnw67
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Sadly, I'm an 'old school' driver and that means that unless I am at the start of my journey or my destination, then the engine has to be running. If the air con is running then the engine has to be running. If the heater is on, heated rear windscreen is on, lights are on.......basically if the car is occupied, then the engine has to be running. Otherwise (as I was taught during my driving lessons) you are not in proper control of the car. Difficult habit to break. :shrug:
I am guessing that the S&S cars have bigger batteries to cope with high electrical demand for when the engine is off? Similarly I guess the brake servo/system must be different somehow to give full braking force even if the engine isn't supplying vacuum...? On any of my other cars, three pumps of the brake pedal and the brake force is down to virtually zero.
Refering to my post above, I found this post on the Fiat.co.uk forum:
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I bought my Fiat 500c 1.4 Lounge dualogic in October 2011 and over the last 6 months I have been experiencing problems with the start stop system. The start stop system intermittently fails to restart the engine when I take my foot off the brake leading to many embarrassing incidents at traffic lights! It has been back to the dealership and they have not been able to find the fault so far. I found another posting on here experiencing the same problem with the same model maybe that will help with discovering the fault? Anyone else experiencing the same problems? "
And that's exactly why I'm always going to turn off my S&S!!