NY wrote:

Dave Liquorice wrote:

Any diesel that is/was intended to be hand startable will have one.
It'd have to operate on all cylinders to enable hand starting...

I'm always amazed that my car starts on a very cold morning when the oil
will presumably be more viscous. It sometimes takes longer to fire

I now have a stop-start car. For normal starts it uses the pinion-based
starter, once warmed up sufficiently that stop-start comes into
operation, it uses the alternator to re-start through the belt.

The stop-start takes a little getting used to (many factors that
influence whether it will or won't operate, such as aircon, steering
angle, gearbox mode, etc).

Annoyingly it's not fully predictable, e.g. you brake to a stop, the
engine stops, the hold-assist on the brakes kicks in (saving you from
having to apply the parking brake while preventing brake lights from
annoying the car behind) when you take your foot off the brake
*sometimes* the engine will restart immediately, surely it could have
worked out before stopping that it would need to restart, and not
bothered stopping?