Member Since: 12 Sep 2015
Location: Staffs
Posts: 32
Stop Start......
Love my D4...best LR I have owned...but oh how I wish I could switch that warning light off...just about got used to switching SS off on each start...but that light... ....nobody will ever persuade me that it can be good for the lump to keep stopping and starting.....
8th Feb 2016 9:13 pm
wiggs
Member Since: 03 Sep 2006
Location: Manchester
Posts: 14368
Let the car battery go flat .. Then either jump start or charge the battery
It switches of the stop / start .. No warning lights
Just need the battery monitor reset if and when you ever want it back onG4 Gone ...but not forgotten
8th Feb 2016 9:37 pm
fat bloke
Member Since: 07 Aug 2006
Location: OXFORD
Posts: 1243
mine hasn't worked for nearly a year told my dealer what to do they couldn't be bovered to listen or act so not missing it...
8th Feb 2016 10:39 pm
Dudleydisco
Member Since: 20 Jun 2014
Location: York
Posts: 853
I read on another forum that you could permanently disable the stopstart system by disconnecting the -ve terminal from the auxiliary battery. It's not something I've tried, as I don't have it on mine D4 MY14 XXV - RLD/IID BT
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I turn off the stopstart as soon as the engine starts, if I am to be stationary for any length of time I know how to turn engine off without any help.
12th Feb 2016 8:06 pm
markate
Member Since: 17 Sep 2011
Location: England
Posts: 702
For those who think stop/start will cause problems in the long term. My Freelander 2 is 5 years old, has done 63000 miles, has stop/start and is still on its original battery and starter motor and stop/start still works.
12th Feb 2016 8:40 pm
Somerset Bumpkin
Member Since: 08 Mar 2015
Location: Gosport
Posts: 234
If you're light with your right foot then it won't ever come on. That's the way I do it at lights. Put my foot down harder when I think in going to be stationary for a while and just lightly hold the brake if the traffic is rolling.
Quite like it actually. The only is when it auto turns off when I get out to open the garage. And I have to go through the whole process of restarting.
12th Feb 2016 9:12 pm
BBDisco3
Member Since: 23 Nov 2008
Location: Cheshire
Posts: 3640
Agree with Somerset Bumpkin's comments.
Its never caused me a problem, however some days it works and some not. Think that is through leaving the Blackvue switched on overnight on occasions, drawing sufficient current that prevents the stop/start working until later in the day when the battery has recovered.
12th Feb 2016 9:39 pm
DaveT
Member Since: 01 Aug 2005
Location: Cornwall
Posts: 2572
What is the perceived problem with stopstart?
I find it infallible, and have no concerns with it at all, so what have I not considered?Long succession of Disco's since 2001...
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12th Feb 2016 9:50 pm
DG Site Moderator
Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff
Posts: 50934
Doesn't bother me in the slightest 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
12th Feb 2016 10:00 pm
Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7438
markate wrote:
For those who think stop/start will cause problems in the long term. My Freelander 2 is 5 years old, has done 63000 miles, has stop/start and is still on its original battery and starter motor and stop/start still works.
Likewise. Bought a new FL2, with StopStart, in 2011. Parted with it at 90,000 miles, in November 2014; sold to a friend, who still owns it, with 130,000 miles now showing. It's had a new rear diff (to be expected!), but nothing wrong with, or caused by, the StopStart to date 2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: FL2 as a second car
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
12th Feb 2016 10:09 pm
BBDisco3
Member Since: 23 Nov 2008
Location: Cheshire
Posts: 3640
blackdog1 wrote:
I turn off the stopstart as soon as the engine starts, if I am to be stationary for any length of time I know how to turn engine off without any help.
But doesn't the stopstart keep certain functions running in the car, which if turning the engine off, such functions no longer operate?
Heater fan, heated seats, heated windows, radio to name a few. Wouldn't turning the engine off also leave you with no side/head lights after a short while?
12th Feb 2016 10:09 pm
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
Mate at work his Nissan petrol stop/start has just killed the battery at just under two years old, slightly diffrrent as Nissan only has the one battery.
12th Feb 2016 10:21 pm
Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7438
Although batteries can inexplicably fail at any time, between around 1 and 5 years, stopstart or otherwise. With all due respect, there is no reason to assume that it's the stopstart killed it.2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: FL2 as a second car
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
12th Feb 2016 10:25 pm
Hairy Dan
Member Since: 19 Jan 2011
Location: Co. Durham
Posts: 12319
I also find the stop/start absolutely fine and just don't worry about it and let it do its own thing Switching off the stop/start and then turning the engine off manually when you are stopped just seems bazaar to me Cheers Ian
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warning light off...just about got used to switching SS off on each start...but that 
