That’s my thinking as well. Also, the Jag’s are not happy with a partial charge and electrical gremlins can come out to play. I’d rather not let them see the light of day.

 

Definitely on my list of things to disable on my 2024. Can’t stand this feature. Why they didn’t make this thing configurable on/off is beyond me.

 

I guess it was the law.

 

Or as a way to ensure the sale of more starter units ;-o

 

I believe that when manufacturers introduced the start-stop feature, they upgraded the starter, the battery and the alternator. If we don't use the start-stop, all these components will last much longer.

 

Here is a little helpful info I put together a while back, when I did mine 👍

DC

 

There's a video on Youtube explaining what had to be changed to support stop/start - quite surprising as, among other things, it involves revising the engine timing so it starts from where it had stopped rather than needing to find a timing mark to sync things as in a cold start. Quite fascinating. But the battery and starter aren't that stressed starting a hot engine, so not sure about lasting "much longer" - my battery is coming up to 8 years now (hope that hasn't jinxed it).

 

Original battery just went on my 2016.

 

I always hated the Start Stop on my car and it almost cause a couple of accidents. A couple of times I would come to a stop sign and come to a complete stop for about .3 sec. and the car would start its shut down sequence just as I stepped on the gas petal to beat traffic and the car would roll forward a little ways and shut down and not start. I would have to manually shut the car off then restart it while I'm sitting half way into an intersection. It's a good thing I didn't get T-Boned. After a couple time of that I disabled the Start Stop.
It seemed that if I stepped on the gas too soon while the car was starting its shut down sequence it would get confused and just shut down and die.

 

Beautiful illustrations and explanations.

 

This good information applies to the later cars which do not have a small, separate battery for the Stop/start function. The solution for the cars with a second battery is equally simple. You just remove the negative lead (or both leads) from the small battery, wrap a bit of foam around it and tuck it away. Done. And if you remove the battery itself you save a bit if weight!

To repeat what has beeen stated many times: disabling the Stop/start connections does not affect any other system.

 

This. I cannot stress enough how awesome (and safe) SmartTop is and should be mandatory if you have a convertible. It not only makes top operation possible from the remote, but it can disable the stop/start for you automatically on every start up.