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Would seem to me that the stop - start technology would cause premature wear on the starter and related items. GliderJohn
You can buy a mint automobile from every decade of the 20th century, each costing less than a new super-zoot car does today. If you like a car with the start button in the floor and a flathead six that you can repair with a spoon and an old emery board, you can get one of them. If you like air-conditioning but no other amenity, you can get that. If you like carburetors but not fuel injection, you have a huge choice of cars. If you like a 1950's Ford but want a shoulder harness, you can easily retrofit that.
No more messed up ignitions switches. Also makes it harder to steal.
Here's the good thing for folks with these concerns.MOST people in the country don't care about these things, and just blindly accept every "new thing" that someone thinks up, and they think it has to be that way, even if it moves them farther from control of the car, or makes it possible for whoever is monitoring and controlling the car to do anything they want to/with you AND makes it less and less possible for anyone to even understand their car, much less work on it. That's fine for most people - they don't care and will buy whatever's new, at whatever price.However, since hundreds of millions of automobiles have been produced over the years, no matter WHAT era you like, no matter WHAT features you like or don't like, there is a very nice car out there for you that, if maintained and cared for, will last most of us the rest of our lives.You can buy a mint automobile from every decade of the 20th century, each costing less than a new super-zoot car does today. If you like a car with the start button in the floor and a flathead six that you can repair with a spoon and an old emery board, you can get one of them. If you like air-conditioning but no other amenity, you can get that. If you like carburetors but not fuel injection, you have a huge choice of cars. If you like a 1950's Ford but want a shoulder harness, you can easily retrofit that.And even in this over-regulated world we live in, you can still drive original cars with ZERO safety features on the road legally. Matter of fact, you can drive them cheaper than a new car. If it didn't have a piece of equipment on it when it was sold, then it isn't required to be inspected for it. I don't see that changing.So I'm really not concerned, personally, with Big Brother cars, unfixable technology, or a car that tries to wipe my arse for me. I just won't ever own one, and I'll continue to drive anywhere I want, in the kind of car I want.You can too!Lannis
Thanks Lannis.....I didn't realize that. I'll print this out and keep it with me for the next time I'm in the market for another car.
One tangentially related note to the OP: I believe your 2016 Mazda 3 Sport has GPS, whether you know or not. All it needs is the SD data card to work. If it's not already been turned on, buy the latest SD card on E-Bay for $80, stick it in the slot and you'll have working GPS. Or pay the dealer $400 plus an hour of labor do the same thing,,,
Glad to be of service! Next up - "How to drive without a GPS without dying horribly and instantly" ....Lannis
I have no problem driving without GPS, but, GPS WITH traffic is a game changer for me. I really enjoy being able to know if there are any major stoppages or congestion ahead on my intended route so I can alter course soon enough to completely avoid it. Life is way to short to waste time sitting in traffic.
As we all sit here reading and responding on our over regulated un-needed computers. We should all be writing one another letters on vellum with quill pens.
Sounds like a design flaw. All the ones we owned won't let you lock it unless you've got the key and do something like touch the button on the car door.
I did not lock it. Not sure I could. But I was a long way away from the owner with the fob, and no good way to get back to the drop off point. The car should have beeped constantly or something to let me know that the fob was out of range. Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk
You know it's winter when a starter button discussion goes three pages . . . .
Since the writing is on the wall I took the plunge about a week ago and bought a 2015 Nissan Altima. Everything is tied into one electronic system and has the push button start/stop. We will see. I still remember all the hand wringing and dire predictions when cars started getting electronic ignition. Time will tell.GliderJohn