I can't see it helping the life of the starter.

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Jim

To be fair, they make some pretty powerful hearing aids for the elderly…

A Golden Age of 86ing EPA cr@p.

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'17 Corvette Stingray Vert

I cannot stand auto stop start. I programmed it out on my last F-150 that had it.

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Me too. I tried to code it out of the GLK using Autel system but was unable to get it to change from active to not active.

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Jim

Just hit the button on the dash after start up.

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2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Yea, that what I do when I remember it.

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Jim

It just might be that the auto shut off starters are designed for purpose.

But this would require some thought.

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I recondition w123/w126/w124/w140/r107/r129/ steering boxes!


1984 300D "Elsa" odo reset 6/2011 147k
1983 300TD "Mitzi" ~268k OM603 powered
1995 E300 "Adelheid" 262k [Sold]

starter is hd for the application i suspect.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

That was a question I had. It would take a lot of hours of idling to make up for the cost of one new starter. As far as reducing greenhouse emissions, one would need to do some nifty research to determine how much carbon is created in manufacturing a starter.

Brian Carlton visited me in the Bay Area 6 or 7 years ago. He was doing some work at SFO on some jet engine balancing. We went out to dinner in his rental Mercedes. It would do the auto shut off and start at every stop longer than a few seconds, I forget exactly. I could barely hear it either way. At one point, he demonstrated the remarkable stopping abilities it had. A panic stop was not that far away from hitting a brick wall.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

I got the crap scared out of me by a Prius in battery mode. In the parking lot at an Orchard Supply Hardware, I was rummaging around in the backseat for some part that I needed to take in to match. I was having trouble finding it so I knelt down so I could hunt around on the floor or maybe under the front seat.

All of a sudden the car next to me, a Prius, started to move. I freaked out, not knowing whether or not my feet might be in the path of the rear wheel. I emerged unscathed, my underwear still clean, but I didn't like it.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

And not just a replacement, the new one. These must cost more, so the additional cost of the first unit over it's lifetime. If they don't cost more but give 5x cranks then all the cars would have them and we would never replace a starter in the normal life of a non shutdown vehicle.

Probably same starters as all the other applicable engines. If it is a MB starter it should be a quality unit. I would not want to put a cheap starter on one and continue to have the car do the auto start/stop thing.

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Jim

I have a hybrid Honda CR-V. For safety reasons, whenever it is in full battery mode, a noisemaker placed under the hood emits a strange sound that I equate to a flying saucer sound effect from some cheap '50's sci-fi movie...

Well, thank goodness this is history. Now they can go back to manufacturing cars with cranks. So do all Toyota hybrids/plug in hybrids/electrics. Noisemaker works when the car is operated below 20 mph. If the car has VVT, the wear on the starter is minimal, because the car will be started in Atkinson cycle: the compression stroke will effectively be shortened by adjusting valve timing.