Turn Your Engines Off

If I'm stuck in none moving traffic for what looks like it's going to be anything from 30 seconds upwards I turn the engine off. Been doing this for quite some time to save fuel so the threat of being fined wouldn't bother me in the slightest. Still, seems a daft idea forcing it on people with no real way of policing it.
 
is this not the only way you can flood a modern fuel injected engine, constantly on and off when cold.

Also a dicky batter could cause huge queues
 
This is stupid, it would mean my aircon would get switched off.

Opening a window is not cooler on some days, unless there is a breeze.
 
What a pathetically stupid idea. It's law at the moment in Germany, iirc any longer the 2 or 3 mins and you have to switch it off and it works quite well.

Unless there's some form of defining time this is just plain daft.
 
You've been at the department for 20 years now Doris, I think you've earned some responsibility, here you go you can oversee the pollution in the borough. Any big ideas?
 
I can't help but think that turbos are meant to have a cooling off period and that simply cutting off their oil flow is seriously bad for them. Are the mail asking us to destroy lots of turbos?
Having said that, just how does BMW get around that on their new ED turbos?
 
blaze of glory said:
West Sussex is becoming very anti-car. Worthing is a complete nightmare for parking with charges of £1.60 an hour. It's patrolled by armies of NCP wardens who ticket you for anything.
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I wouldn't say it's exactly anti car but Worthing is a total nightmare for parking. No decent carparks and the charges are tantamount to robbery. The very reason I walk into town whenever I can.

They have 'Cut Engine - Cut Pollution' signs at the level crossings & most people are pretty good at doing so. At the West Worthing crossing you can be stuck there for anything up to 20 mins.
 
Mr_Sukebe said:
I can't help but think that turbos are meant to have a cooling off period and that simply cutting off their oil flow is seriously bad for them. Are the mail asking us to destroy lots of turbos?
Having said that, just how does BMW get around that on their new ED turbos?
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I would imagine that there is some form of oil circulation going on, otherwise top end wear would be rife with it shutting everything down in stop start traffic.
 
If they inforce something like this, then traffic lights should have some sort of visible timer, so in the event someone rolls up to a red light and as soon as they switch off the engine, it turns to green, it would prevent traffic building up behind the person who then has to restart their car.
I think most people would just crawl upto red lights slowly as a get around making it very hard to enforce. Are they going to have traffic wardens at every set of traffic lights then?

TBH, i think its daft, as mentioned older cars dont like starting once hot and require more fuel to get started again.
 
but what about my aircon on a hot day, that is total rubbish im not getting hot and sweaty sitting in traffic cos of more stupid UK road rules. Also I think my 2.5 5 cylinder turbo uses a bit of fuel to start it than sitting there idling
 
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