[Akinari]

Originally Posted by meme405

Spoiler!

Okay I have a CLA250, this is the first vehicle I have owned with this feature.

First off I found it extremely frustrating in the beginning, now after having driven the vehicle more and more, I have gotten used to it and learned how to manage it better.

I will preface this by saying on the mercedes, there is no way to just turn this feature off and leave it for good. Everytime you turn on the vehicle the feature is enabled, so basically you would have to hit the button to turn it off everytime you get in the car. Which is fucked, screw you mercedes.

Now to their credit after getting used to the feature, it's not bad, you just have to manage it. In the screen on the dash there is a little eco symbol, when that symbol is yellow the car is warming up, or for some reason will not auto shut off. When that symbol is green when you come to a stop with your foot fully planted the car will shut off very quickly.

If you come to a stop and the light is green you can hold the brake gently and the car will stay running. This is great cause if you are at a stop sign or a light which is just changing to green, you can just lightly hold the brakes and the car will stay running.

On top of that the car does start extremely quick in auto start, still though I like to let go of the brakes a second sooner than normal so that the car can start, and it can have a moment to run before I hit the gas to set off.

Basically I have gotten used to the feature more since I have gotten the car, and it actually works remarkably well, but I still see it as likely reducing the life of some of the components in the car, and needlessly complicated. But with today's emissions BS you better get used to shitty new tech like this.

I can attest to this as my parents and girlfriend both drive B250s, which have the exact same drivetrain as the CLA250, however from my experience it's not the smoothest start-stop system, and it actually starts back up quite rough, a little too much vibration for me, almost like a bloody diesel engine startup. I remember driving the F30 328i when it first came out and it is also a turbo 4cyl, but somehow the system manages to be much smoother with a lot less vibration.