I can only speak for myself. My feeling is that the defeat button should remember the last setting when you restart your truck. In other words, the A.S.S would become optional. I don't really think that feature would have been too much to ask.
I have 2 cars with it and hit the defeat button as soon as I get in the car. It can be abrupt if you are stopped and engine is off and you go too fast from break to gas in traffic for example. You end up on the gas before the engine starts, and when it does start, it is then very abrupt and assuredly not good for the drivetrain. Savings in fuel is largely negligible and not even measurable based on my experience when first using it.. The folks who pushed for this should give up a home or two, the yacht, and drive a hybrid, and we would make out much better. Leave the peasants alone and practice what they preach.Yeah the hate for start-stop kinda puzzles me. I never had an ICE car with that system, but I love how the hybrid isn't wasting fuel by idling all the time at lights or in traffic
Maybe the system doesn't work so well on the EcoBoost and that's why ppl hate it
I'm not a fan for of start/stop. I know we have it and it's the way it has to work on our hybrids, but never understood the need on a regular ICE vehicle. I do have a question, our hybrids don't actually have a starter I believe? I think it starts by the wizardly electric "motor/generator"? I would not like a standard starter on a vehicle being used over and over every day, seems like unnecessary stress and a maintenance issue. I'll bet a starter for a Maverick is not cheap.
