My auto stop/start always
seemed to work even when the car was giving the message 'Battery low, please start engine' first thing in the morning...or at least it allowed me to press the stop/start button and disable it. Pressing that button was so built into habit that I still go to switch it off after I start the engine even though it's now off by default after the CCF edit
Not sure how different years of the D5 handle the stop/start. I read somewhere that some models had a second battery, some had a hybrid main battery that handled everything. I know mine only has a single main battery since I've raked around in the battery compartment...if there had been a rogue battery shoved in there, I'd surely have noticed.
I'd tend to agree that low battery voltage would effect it's operation...although on the occasions I'd forgotten to press the damned button, the auto stop/start would only kick in under certain conditions...like the length of time my foot was on the brake pedal or something?... Since it didn't always stop the engine at junctions, even if I had to bring the car to a complete halt.
We don't have exotic things like traffic lights...or traffic...or towns up here that the stop/start served any useful purpose anyway. It's just a fuel guzzling, DPF destroying annoyance that kept shutting my engine off when I didn't want it to.
Besides the annoyance factor and needless battery drain, I hated the thing with a vengeance anyway...hence me searching through the CCF list with an IID tool to find that button memory option and enabling it. Having an IID tool, the CCF edit seemed the best option to me rather than pulling the plug out since the stop/start still works exactly as it's supposed to... except now I have to press the button to enable it rather than the other way round.
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