It’s popular to hate it in the circlejerk and/or by older people. Just like cutting out DPFs and cats or complaining about emissions standards and modern oil viscosity.
As the 2 rules go:
Except it’s 13yo now, yet they still complain. Although DPF are like 20+yo and still get some undeserved hate
It has no effect on wear. At this point (after 13 years of it being mainstream) it’s just a annoying myth. There are no objective data of increased wear or worse reliability when using it.
The situation you described is exactly why you are given the option to turn it off and on. So you don’t have to cycle the engine for a half a second stop. Keep it on, but turn it off for those super short stops.
“Mechanics are telling me”, they are saying that just because “new=bad” and they didn’t get used to it yet. Just like 0w-20 oil is “water” (20 years ago, 5w-30 was “water”), how all the newest emissions standards are stupid. When Euro 4 came out it was bad, now Euro 7 is coming and the Euro 4 is “good”.
Some mechanics still claim a DPF will make a car unreliable, even though there are already milions of cars with hundreds of km that never had a DPF issue. The same is true with start/stop. I’s just popular to hate it in certain groups.
Most of the average people don’t even know you can turn start/stop off, or even if they do know, they don’t do it. When walking, I hear multiple start/stops working every day. They will work fine for years to come.
Just like my parents 400k km DPF didn’t blow up the engine yet, the start/stop won’t do it on their future car either.
Disabling it has its purpose. For example, when coming to a roundabout you might be stopped for half a second, so you don’t want the engine to turn off. On standard signal or in gridlock traffic it’s quite nice.
People that hate it the most, are the ones who won’t even give it a chance. There are people in hybrids that force start/stop off. No comment on that…
Am I the only one who thinks the G20 feels almost like a 5 series compared to F30?
Funny how accurately you could guess a person’s age based on their answer to this question.
There is no magic number. I will drive my car until I get bored of it or it starts seriously breaking up.
This point can’t be measured by mileage and to be honest, it shouldn’t, because it’s pointless.
“By mileage” is like changing your washing machine based on how many clothes you have washed.