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You don't have to shut off the engine to avoid stopping at a red light, you just have to lift your foot from the gas pedal and the engine drop to 0 fuel consumption then you just coast to the light...

glide? People behind you must be very anoyed if you keep accelerating and decelarating all the time. Not to mention the higher risk of having a ticket if going over the limit. Have you tried...

Yes that too, and it's quite significant. In cars that are designed for stop and start, they have a better starter which is heavy duty and meant for this. I suspect our starters would not last long...

wrong guessing, because I do the same exact routine week after week, so I can precisely compare and I tried for 2 different weeks doing the same routine with the same results. It's just not worth it...

it's just not worth it for me because my fuel economy was worse when doing it often. I can beleive there is a fuel economy on the longest lights, like 1 minute at least, but for anything less then 1...

It's safe alright...What are the odd the car won't restart?? If it's that bad, it could just stop on its own and not restart. Mine is a brand new car.

But the worse is that I don't see any...

Yes, I see them more and more at intersections in my commute to work.

Ok cool. I was doing this mostly at long red lights (2 to 3 minutes), and I catch around 10 of them per day, going to work and back home. So far my computer went from 6.4l/100km to 6.2 average,...

Hi,

I was just wondering how much wear does shutting off the engine at the longest red lights do to the engine?

I heard conflicting info about this and when I think of the cars that are used...