Hello all;
I live in Canada and as you may be aware it gets a little cool here during the winter months.
I have noticed over the last couple of years that my fuel consumption goes from 3.5L/100km in the summer to 4.2L/100km in the winter. I associate the bulk of this difference to the fact that Auto-Stop will not function when the tempurature drops to approx 5c or lower. (I have confirmed this milage drop by getting similar fuel consumption results leaving A/C on -thus disabling the auto-stop during the summer).
I am trying to find a way to force the Auto-Stop feature to continue to shut off the engine when the car comes to a stop regardless of the outside tempurature.
I think that the Honda engineers must be afraid of a little cold weather... Hey Honda, if a driver can handle no air conditioning during an Auto-Stop, they can likely handle no heat during an Auto-Stop!!!
Us Canadians are a hardly lot!
Anyone have a fix, thoughts, insights? :wink:
I live in Canada and as you may be aware it gets a little cool here during the winter months.
I have noticed over the last couple of years that my fuel consumption goes from 3.5L/100km in the summer to 4.2L/100km in the winter. I associate the bulk of this difference to the fact that Auto-Stop will not function when the tempurature drops to approx 5c or lower. (I have confirmed this milage drop by getting similar fuel consumption results leaving A/C on -thus disabling the auto-stop during the summer).
I am trying to find a way to force the Auto-Stop feature to continue to shut off the engine when the car comes to a stop regardless of the outside tempurature.
I think that the Honda engineers must be afraid of a little cold weather... Hey Honda, if a driver can handle no air conditioning during an Auto-Stop, they can likely handle no heat during an Auto-Stop!!!
Us Canadians are a hardly lot!
Anyone have a fix, thoughts, insights? :wink: