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My 118D is now two years old and is still automatically stopping and starting absolutely fine. Hehe yeah... MK is a pain for visitors to find their way around without satnavs, but living there is easy as getting around is so efficient - there's hardly any traffic jams because the roundabouts deal with traffic flow so efficiently and any jams caused by accidents etc can be easily avoided thanks to the grid system. Also when the traffic is flowing most of the roundabouts are so big you can go into them at 40mph if you don't have to stop! Last edited by Feanor; 04-16-2012 at 10:52 AM.. |
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04-16-2012, 10:44 AM | #156 |
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Maybe someone has already mentioned this, but how hard would it be to modify the button so that it is always "off"?
I defeated my "daytime running lights" this way. Is that too simple of a solution? |
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04-16-2012, 11:11 AM | #158 |
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There is a great deal of evidence of anthropogenic impacts on global warming - as there is of a round earth, evolution and other scientific, objectively-based conclusions.
However, I also want to avoid a general discussion of these matters as they are political, rather than objective. One can typically accurately predict the political beliefs of the speaker based on whether ot not he accepts anthropogenic effects on global warming. More importantly, I mention this as much of the debate regarding ASS is similar - based on individual beliefs rather than objective evidence. |
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04-16-2012, 11:23 AM | #159 |
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Reading this thread prompted me to go pop the battery cover off my F30 and look at the battery.
The battery is a black case, so I assume from previous models this means it is an AGM battery and not conventional lead-acid. The label says the battery has 900CCA, as opposed to the the 750CCA of the E90/E92. |
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04-16-2012, 12:43 PM | #160 |
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There must be a simple electronic way to do this. Some kind of timer and relay perhaps.
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04-19-2012, 09:06 PM | #162 | |
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1) All studies are unsubstantiated - just like most Global Warming studies, as far as it is man made 2) This car has a 33mpg highway rating with a 2.0L engine - what exactly does ASS help it achieve? 3) BMW owners do care for not causing additional pollution, but as you conveniently misunderstand/ignore my posts, its hard to make you understand that most BMW owners are not greenies who would give the pleasure of driving up to cater to as yet unproven man made global warming theories. |
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04-19-2012, 09:08 PM | #163 | |
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So ASS is going to give our children a better world to live in? You are funny. |
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04-19-2012, 09:12 PM | #165 | |
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I have nothing against the system, though I don't particularly care for it. I just want a way to be able to disable in such a way that it stays disabled. I also have a Mercedes E350, and the transmission in it defaults to Comfort each time you start it, while I want to drive in Sport (button settings). Its a pain, and I see the same happening to me in an F30 - therefore the resistance. |
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04-19-2012, 09:13 PM | #166 |
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One thing is pretty clear - a lot of owners are having the stutter problem. I think this is more visible in non hybrid cars, because unlike hybrids, there isn't an electric motor that will move the car off while the IC engine restarts.
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04-19-2012, 09:14 PM | #167 |
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04-19-2012, 09:15 PM | #168 | |
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For the Global Warming believers, their opinion, however unsubstantiated, is fact, while those that don't buy into it, there's is opinion, and that too uneducated and stupid. |
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04-20-2012, 12:57 AM | #169 | |
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What the skeptics deny is that it's caused by human activity - which is why most people here, if not everyone, have been careful to only refer to global warming as being fact, and not anthropogenic global warming as being fact. The two are very different. Don't get me wrong - as someone said there is a huge amount of evidence for anthropogenic global warming but I've had enough discussions with skeptics to know that it's just not worth going there. |
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04-20-2012, 06:22 AM | #170 |
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If you truly want to educate yourself on anthropogenic global warming please read some of the books by Patrick Michaels from the University of Virginia. You may form a different opinion or at least consider an alternative perspective.
The problem is the "facts" that what you all state are not facts, but merely supposition based on incomplete and unachievable research and climate modeling. The simple view of the anthropogenic global warming believers is they point to recent weather events such as hurricanes and tornado activity and measured temperatures over the past 100 hundred years or so, and say they are above "average". However, no one can truly point to what "average" is on the scale of how the climate works over time. It's easy to believe because the storms make headlines and are propagated by the Weather Channel to sell advertizing. The devastation looks horrible, unless there are no houses and people, to be affected by it. No one can say how fierce the storm activity was in Oklahoma 5,000 years ago, because there is no recorded history. Saying this month's weather in the mid-West is the worst ever is merely a guess and not a fact. It’s easy to predict the end of the world when you will not be around to see it. Patrick Michaels, who is a climatologist, goes back in time through core sample from lakes and other geological evidence to try to validate climate models and finds the models are not accurate predicting tools. It's not just a simple as that statement, but really take time to get a different point of view, from a scientist, and make up your own mind. Considering the scale of how the planet operates, and the affect the sun has on the climate, it is not possible to accurately point to human activity as significantly changing weather patterns of the earth. The climate of the earth is going to change whether that change is good or bad and the severity of it is affect by me driving my Hummer, is impossible to quantify and predict. It is a serious issue because Governments can create fear in their populations and justify to themselves to create law that drives social activity and thus population control. We end up with stupid buttons on dash boards that are required deactivate annoying start stop functions. All from a company that builds 560 HP overweight, bloated, SUVs. I ask that you consider the point that if start-stop is such a good idea, good for the planet, and crucial for the F30 to achieve its EPA fuel mileage rating, why is it even deactivate-able at all? Why not just make it as a standard operation of the driveline as much as ABS is an undefeatable part of the braking system? |
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Where you are wrong is to use the above information to dismiss global warming in it's entirety. FACT: In the last hundred years the average temperature hs risen. FACT: As the temperature rises, storms become more frequent and more severe. Based on the limited information that we have, global warming appears to be real although I do not think it is nearly as bad as many scientists would like to scare us into believing. I think much of it has to do with a natural cycle. We should however still take steps to address the situation by offering people the ability to do so. This also helps us to preserve our non-renwable resources. There is where A.S.S. comes in. Although it is unclear how it affects gas mileage, it does reduce emissions. Being causious and prudent in this case does far more good than harm and even if it is proven that global warming is no big deal, we will still have benfitted in our actions. You buy house insurance on the outside chance that your house may burn down. The odds of that happening are very small but in the end, the minor cost (relative) and piece of mind make it well worth it.
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how quickly we get off topic. nasty dinosaur farts will screw up any good convo.
Back to the start/stop. I suspect that in time (assuming you cannot disable it via OEM tools) that there will be a "fix" from the aftermarket in a year or less. It shouldn't be hard to wire in a fix. |
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04-20-2012, 11:12 AM | #174 |
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One can "fix" it right now if you want to educate yourself on coding your BMW. Or you can mess around with the wiring via aftermarket tools, as you suggested. Either route will be unsupported by BMW and you will have to deal with the service/warranty repercussions of such actions. It's all up to the individual owner!
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That's not what he said and you know it. The point is we can't go on wasting resources like we have for the last century without consequences. Stop/start is one of the myriad devices that we need to use less fuel and of course part of BMW's Efficient Dynamics technology which is a response to CAFE and European standards.
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