What have you done to your car today?
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It's got stop start which I am not keen on, so need to remember to keep my foot on the clutch at lights and stuff which is a bit annoying
As Blackhawk says there will be a button on the dash to turn this off (probably center console down the bottom in the row of switches). It's possible to get "Stop/Start Memory" coded, whereby the car will remember the state it was last in when turned off and revert to that every time you start it up. Had it done on the M3 and it saves me a whole 0.1 seconds every time I get in the car, completely changed my life.
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Having finished my road trips for the week, quick wheel clean and seal, wash and a quick wax top up with some Aqua Wax.
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It's got stop start which I am not keen on, so need to remember to keep my foot on the clutch at lights and stuff which is a bit annoying
Trust me on this - stick with it for a month. You'll get used to it and once you do, it's absolutely fantastic. Sitting at the lights in silence is brilliant.
If you still hate it after a month you'll always hate and can thus just turn it off, but give it a chance!
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[TW]Fox;29198942 said:
Great for sitting at traffic lights for a few mins but crawling in traffic waiting to join a roundabout and its awful imo.
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Most systems don't reactivate until you get to a certain speed first to avoid such frustrations, mines 9mph.
It's quite a modern system, only released in 2000
It's quite a modern system, only released in 2000
Not today - Yesterday - But I diagnosed the oil leaking issue. It is the cam cover gasket and a spark plug tube seal.
I will replace the gasket, the seals, and the spark plugs on a Saturday somewhen in the near future. Thankfully nothing major and something I'm happy to do myself.
I will replace the gasket, the seals, and the spark plugs on a Saturday somewhen in the near future. Thankfully nothing major and something I'm happy to do myself.
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[TW]Fox;29198942 said:
I didn't expect to love stop start as much...bit of a pain in lots of traffic, but brilliant when stuck at lights for ages.
Because turning a key is so difficult.
What? stop start is nothing to do with turning a key
Find the threshold speed and stay below it and it won't keep stop/starting. Like with anything you need to learn how it works to get the best from it.
[TW]Fox;29199156 said:What? stop start is nothing to do with turning a key
I was making the argument that stop start is pointless because you're either going to be stopped for such a brief moment that it is annoying, or if you are stopped for a long time, you can just turn the car off and on again with the key...
I was making the argument that stop start is pointless because you're either going to be stopped for such a brief moment that it is annoying, or if you are stopped for a long time, you can just turn the car off and on again with the key...
It's not pointless at all. You are not going to manually switch the engine on and off all the time when sitting at lights etc. Especially as doing so usually switches the aux functions off etc etc. Start stop can also automatically restart depending on system load, if it it detects that running the AC compressor is required for comfort reasons, or if the electrical load on the car reaches a certain point.
I can only assume you've never driven a car properly with start/stop or you'd not have suggested that.
[TW]Fox;29199188 said:
I have actually! I used to drive the company pool car quite a bit where I used to work, but I was either driving on country lanes where it wasn't needed, or in central London where the car was going on-off-on-off-on-off all the time. So I tended to leave it switched off. It was an F30 320D M-Sport. Pool car where I currently am also has start-stop, but I haven't driven it yet. It is a Focus Titanium 1.5 Ecoboost TDCI
I forgot about the aux functions staying on, so I retract my statement. Thats a good point.
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I was making the argument that stop start is pointless because you're either going to be stopped for such a brief moment that it is annoying, or if you are stopped for a long time, you can just turn the car off and on again with the key...
No one keys off really though. Stop start has the necessary hardware upgrades and will restart the engine if voltage starts dropping or brake vac pressure drops.
Basically you've never driven a car with it have you?
New set of plugs gone in the ST this afternoon - plus gave the area under the plastic cover a general clean-up best I could and added some more protection to the plug wiring where some of the flexi conduit had broken away.
Roast dinner intervened
meaning the last job of refitting of the induction top pipe was done in the rain 
Roast dinner intervened
meaning the last job of refitting of the induction top pipe was done in the rain See above, I have but never liked it/got used to it.
If I ever have cause to use the new company pool car, I'll leave it switched on and see how I feel...
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I haven't had much time to spend with the car but indeed I have found that button As you say thinking about it more logically now suggested, use it right and it makes good sense to be fair. Just getting used to changes! Hopefully next weekend I can sit down and read the manual, look at the functions properly etc. I even found some under seat "subwoofers" today, keep finding little touches. Clearly I looked at the spec in detail! 
PS: you cheeky sods, the paint is fine and no more cars for a while!
As you say thinking about it more logically now suggested, use it right and it makes good sense to be fair. Just getting used to changes! Hopefully next weekend I can sit down and read the manual, look at the functions properly etc. I even found some under seat "subwoofers" today, keep finding little touches. Clearly I looked at the spec in detail! PS: you cheeky sods, the paint is fine and no more cars for a while!