The MAJOR problem with auto-idle (which isn't mentioned here) is the fact that starting your engine is the single most damaging activity to your engine. Why would you save a little in gas to greatly decrease the longevity of your engine? Does not make sense.

Most people can't stand this feature, but it adds more wear and tear to your vehicle which means you'll be at the shop more often IMO, so manufacturers will of course keep it

Been searching the internet for a disable remedy to Auto Start/Stop - thank you so much for all your effort in making this video.

Totally agree. That split second lag is especially dangerous at busy T-junctions.

You made my day. Thanks for making it so clear and easy to understand and follow instructions. It's such a useless idea to start and stop your car 1000 times a day. Simply useless. Thanks for taking the time to record and explain it.

Excellent video ! I have a Ford Fusion 2020 and has basically the same setup. What was more annoying than having to hit that button every time you start the car was FORGETTING to hit that button every time I start the car.!!

As a senior citizen I have a psychological twitch to my vehicle motor virtually stalling at a busy intersection with a long red traffic light. The anxiety must come from an archaic memory of when I was young and poor a stalled car meant calling a tow truck while surrounded by angry drivers. So I've been pushing the stop/start button every time I get into my 2018 Pacifica LX which is in itself annoying. Today I just followed your simple fix, which I suspect can be reversed just by putting the plug back in if/when I want to sell the vehicle without that tell-tale warning light on the dashboard. If KZfaq would allow me to push the thumbs up button a thousand times in gratitude for your video, I would do so! BTW I asked my Chrysler dealer how much to turn off the start/stop system and they said at least $200!!

OMG! My exact frustration about the auto start. It's also frustrating that it can't just be one button to disable it.

Thanks so much! I loved it when you said that seeing that dashboard warning light illuminated - brings you joy! We must have been cut from the same cloth. 😊

The engineers that came up with this useless feature should be fired immediately. It serves no purpose and does absolutely nothing except to add more wear and tear on your engine and starter. So happy Ford allows it to be removed on my '22 F150!! I never have to worry about this again!

Got a 2020 Pacifica sitting in my driveway right now. Wife drove it home from the dealership this afternoon. Has 20,000 miles on it, thinking of buying it. Your videos help!

Nice job. Best ever and practical auto guy to watch. Thank you.

Thank you!!! It works on a 2020 Buick Enclave that doesn’t have a on/off switch. There is a tiny light that comes on the steering wheel. You just made my day!

Thank you. I just successfully disabled this nuisance in my 2020 Durango. A little trickier to do since my battery is in a well compartment under the front passenger seat. Done and happy about it!

We have a 2019 and 2020, HATE stop start. Had been looking for over a year. Now you have saved my wife yelling at me for bitching about every time I get in. Thanks great tip. Only benefit of the system from hell being on is that the starter will fail early since it has many times more usage. You saved us from starter failure and headaches.

This was easy to listen to, very clear in the solution--I found the man enjoyable and real. I really liked his solution, gonna try on my Subaru Forester.

I started turning off the "Auto-Stall" feature every time I started my truck. After a week it was automatic. After a month I didn't realize that I was doing it. Like buckling up or stepping on the brake to shift the truck into reverse to back out of the garage, it becomes something that you do without thinking about it. PS I started calling it "auto stall" the second time it happened to me, and everyone else I know think it's an apt description.

Thanks to you my friend, I learned about Autostop Eliminator. The bad news was I had to wait over a year for them to cover my make and car. The good news is, the product is now available for Kia Seltos which I have. Today I am installing it. Free, free, free at last. Thank you! You are my Autostop Eliminator Hero! All the best to you and your channel!

It's important to note that this feature isn't primarily for you as the customer. This feature is so the car manufacturers can market their car as slightly more efficient than it really is. This bumps them up on the charts since technically it will burn slightly less in the "city driving" metric. Since all the manufacturers are so close in terms of fuel economy, this tiny bump causes them to gain a lot of places on the charts if they do it and your company doesn't, thus this annoying feature spread throughout the industry like wildfire. The manufacturer doesn't care about the longevity of the car as long as it makes it to the end of the warranty period. so i mean, if you dont care either, and also dont want AC/Heat while stopped, and dont care about a worn-out starter, and dont care about wearing out the bottom end faster, then by all means save a few bucks a month on fuel (potentially). But for people who want to keep their car for a long time and not treat it like getting a new phone every year or 2, then this feature is crap.

Found it on my 2017 Ford Ranger truck. Plug was identical and easy to do. The only difference was the light displayed on the panel was the check engine light instead of the auto-start amber light. The annual inspection in Texas will not pass with a check engine light, however I will only need to plug it back in when the inspection is due. Good job my friend!

what a calm and composed way of explaining.. thanks a lot for the complete insight.. will try if this is applicable to VW Taigun in Indian Market..

Thank you so much for the simple solution you shared. Took me a few seconds to find and disconnect. Works a treat. Yes a small dash alert appears but not intrusive at all. My vehicle is a Ford Everest 2020 (Australia version). Soooo, happy it was this easy to solve!!!

Was here for the van life videos and came across this one and dang i own a Pacifica and Compass gonna have to try this! Thank you

Thank you very much, sir! Really grateful you found this simplest of solutions!

Ours broke all by itself so I didn't have to do this technique but this is an awesome information to have. The one thing that maybe others don't realize is that this system causes your car to start over and over again which seems obvious but the cost of the starter when it fails because of the excessive starting will cost you more than any savings you'll ever get in gas mileage by having the system enabled in the first place

There's an easier way without the warning light or unplugging everything, which will affect other features. Push the idle on/off button to off (light on). While holding it down, wedge a thin peice of plastic between that button and the console, so the button cannot go back up. It's jammed in the off mode. Been doing that for 3 years and works great!

I love watching your videos Curtis. You are the best.

Glad I found your video. I have that light on my "new to me" 2020 Pacifica and am taking it in next week to get checked out. I've seen people saying that the auxilary battery is dead and it's draining the main, so went out and popped my hood to see if previous owner had disconnected it. The little tab is still connected. Now I think my auxillary battery is dead for sure.

Great tip..... thank you i hate that damn start/ stop

Heyyyy Indiana! Bless you sir! We have a Buick and the inside of the thingy you suggested we unplug is not green, BUT, it worked, and we are very grateful. Our car did not have the button to turn auto stop off at all. We do not get the warning light either. We are so happy (mostly due to the end of unnecessary wear and tear on our starter, flywheel, and the end of cold starts). Our engine thanks you as well💕

Thanks for that! I have a 2020 Pacifica S, like yours (minus the moon roof’s, what? ) I use mine for mail delivery. You should see this set up! Once done with my mail gig, I hope to vancamp with with this rig I will not be planning to write poetry, even though that does rhyme. Just traveling the states in the future. I thank you VERY much for sharing your videos. Much appreciated!

Thank you for this simple fix. It worked on my 2022 Subaru Outback as well.

Thank you very much!! Applied perfectly on my Opel Astra K 2017 EcoFlex. For the Opel guys out there, my plug was purple inside and for best application use some electrical tape, as mentioned, for safety reasons. Besides from a notice on the start, everything great !!

Brother, you are in possession of some mighty fine information

Thank you, Adrian, for this Tip!

Awesome information. Keep up the great work.

Subscribed. This was very useful content. Thank you.

Thanks for the info! That tiny delay has almost killed my family several times! Our 2019 Volkswagon Tiguan was our first vehicle with this start-stop system. I discovered this death trap while trying to accelerate onto busy traffic lanes when seconds counted. My vehicle would bog down on me and basically stop and thrust forward, I had some close calls! My wife pulled up to the garage door with her foot on the brake and when she took her foot off the car lunged forward into the door. It took me a bit to figure out what was going on so I have been shutting the star-stop system for a while now with no other problems, it's just remembering to do it when I start the car. I wonder how many accidents this system has caused!

This very issue was bothering me for quite awhile. Thank you buddy! 😊

The " ouch, that's hot" was hilarious

That truly is a safety issue for the driver having the engine quit at stop signs....I would put a piece of tape over the disabled plug to keep moisture out ..Thank you for showing how to disable the problem..Have a blessed day..

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! That is the most irritating feature ever put on a vehicle!

Well done Adrian. I'm just about to buy a car with that function and I'm not too keen on it. I'll give it a try but probably will be looking for that switch to disconnect it. Thanks.

Better bring jump starter pack in your car along with this feature because oh boy you will need it some day i speak by experience…This stupid feature has left me stranded a couple of times in traffics light and the crazy thing is that the car doesn’t start on back leaving you in the middle of the streets. THANK YOU FOR SHARE THIS TRICK

Dude. Thanks. No idea I had the option of turning this off on my Taos. ou made my day:)

You are correct. This feature is just dangerous. When your car auto-stops at an intersection, and then you go to accelerate into oncoming traffic and it doesn't fire up right away, your timing can be thrown off, lurching you forward at the wrong moment, causing an accident. I despise government overreach and stupidity.

I just went out and performed this on our 2 VW cars which are both 2022 models. The plug is very similar to what you showed. Thanks!

Great video. Very well explained information. Thanks for teaching us how to stop this stupid feature. I think it's just a way to sell starters & batteries.

That was a very good video,simple to the point 👍, I’m subscribed

I'm sure no one ever mentions the most serious problem with this feature. When your vehicle does not restart after lifting your foot off the brake. My car has stopped several times at a stop light and would not restart. So I had to place it into park and turn off my engine, then restart it. My most scariest and most unacceptable occasion was when I was in RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC (stop. & go). My vehicle stopped, I quickly placed it into park and tried 3 times to restart before my vehicle restarted. I took it to the dealership and told them I do not want this feature and wanted it removed or disabled but was told it couldn't be disabled. I was told it was because my battery needed to be recharged. I am waiting for the first court case of injury or death for anything to change. My next vehicle will be based on not having this feature. Good luck, everyone.

Thank you! This is very helpful!

So happy to have caught your post.

Many thanks. Where we live there are lethal junctions which require split-second timing to pull-out onto busy roads. The stop-start thing would freak me out. If I am stuck in traffic for a while, I turn the engine off myself. Maybe I'm just weird.

Very interesting. I was thinking that module may be involved with a lot more than just the auto start-stop.

Thank you great info. Had a couple of instances where my ram would not restart in heavy traffic. Not a fun experience! Will disconnect tomorrow!

Loved your video and the way you presented it

Love the bloopers!!! 🤣🤣🤣

"Think of it as a light that brings you joy!" So freaking funny. I applauded you. Normally I hate that kind of thinking, but I hate the Auto S/S thing so much, I would welcome the "(A!)" ... A little electrical tape can fix that too! God bless you. Hope this works on my Sonata!

Man.. I’m doing that right now on my Pacifica. I totally hate that stupid Start/Stop “technology” which does nothing but deplete the battery. Thank you so much for this video!

Dang, you saved me 100 bucks - thank you - exact same van and year...

😂😂😂😂 I thought my engine was failing.. I was like IKYFL LMAOOOO I hate this feature

Does this work on any car? Are all of these systems set up the same? I love that you can do that so easily. I am in the market for an suv so I will definitely check under the hood for this connection! Thank you so much for the tip!!

Thank you so much for Auto start stop option information. I learned alot.

You are saving the life of your cars starter by 450%..good work...cheers

Don't Do this! If you want to disable auto start/stop on your F150 (works on 2021-2023 models for sure, don't know about older models or the upcoming 2024 refresh, but I'm pretty sure its the same or similar.) Go into your infotainment system. Bring up Features. Bring up towing. Choose select default trailer. That's it. That's all you have to do. Don't buy any devices. Don't jumper the button. Don't disconnect the BMS from the negative lead on the battery. The truck will think a trailer is connected, but it won't cut off your backup camera, or give you any warning messages or anything like that. Plus you don't run any risk of voiding your warranty, or shorting your circuitry with some cheap Chinese "auto start eliminator," or by plugging in some trailer circuit test kit that isn't designed to be left in as you drive the truck every day leaving it exposed to the elements.

It's hell on the starter and components. The life of the starter is greatly reduced. I doubt there is minimal fuel savings. It's BS technology.

Both my VW Atlas 2019 and Alfa Romeo Giulia 2018 have this feature.....it is most annoying when you are the first in line at stop sign at a busy intersection, and you need to get out in to traffic in a hurry. Engine noise is so quiet too you don't realize it has shut off....except in the summer the AC quits blowing cold air. I will try this trip.

Great info 👍 I did the same thing to my 2020 Edge ST and it worked great. No light on the dash

Might want to put some dielectric grease on those connectors to protect them from weather and dirt, in case you ever want to hook them back up.

Thanks for the tip. I just got a 2019 Pacifica today 🎉 very low miles. That’s probably what made me think something wasn’t right with the car. I didn’t realize about that delay. What kind of gas mileage are you getting on yours? I only drove in the city today but it was only reading 16.5 mpg. I thought it would do a little better. I think I’m going to live this van once I get used to all the features.

This plug was super easy to find on my 2021 Jeep Wrangler. There are 2 batteries in the Wrangler, and the lower one is hard to get to, but the plug is on the negative terminal of the upper battery.

😃🤣 That light brings joy!! LOVE it! I can't wait to do it on my Honda Pilot 2022 that I just bought yesterday. I'm hoping it has the same connection to the battery. Otherwise, I will not have the joy.. Thank you for this cool video!

I used to have a start/stop Malibu. When coming to a stoplight or stop sign, release the brake pedal slightly just before stopping, then press brake as usual. Worked ever time and it becomes a habit to keep the engine from stopping. The environmental benefit and gas savings is so small. Keep the engine going and save your battery and engine life.

Trying this today. If it works, you will be my hero lol I HATE how the car turns off when I'm trying to do and quick stop and go at a stop sign or right turn on red. It's dangerous when you need to move out of the way.

Scared me the first time on the Honda Civic Sport when I forgot to turn this off. Strange feature in an otherwise great car that doesn't need that crap to begin with, getting nearly 400 miles of range and over 25 mpg just regular town/city driving. I might do this and make sure it doesn't void the warranty either. Thanks man!

Thank you so much for the simple solution you shared.

Thank you! What the EPA does not tell you is that it shortens the life of your car's battery, your car's starter and, causes problems with most car's dashcams.

It takes more fuel to start a vehicle just leave it run for the few seconds that it’s going to be running. It’s more mechanical parts to break down so that the starter that you’re using to start your car initially is going to wear out quicker just another way for manufactures to make more money

Thanks Man!!! I'm going to give that a try while I wait for the little stopper box to show up.

Great video, don’t know it will work on my 2020 Rav 4 but I’m going to check, thank you 👍

Yeh man, I read years ago (AAA magazine) that if you're not going to sit more than 3 minutes then you will waste more fuel restarting the engine than idling 3 minutes. Also you are drastically reducing the life of your starter (and other related components). The oil is so thin in small engines today that they get lubrication almost instantly, so I don't think there would be a problem as you would have in a big block 8 cylinder engine wearing because it takes longer to get oil to all the metal parts when you start the engine. Thanks for the info.

"Every time I see that light it brings me joy" 😂👍

Excellent presentation 👍

I bought a gadget online that disabled this feature. If I had seen your video sooner I might have saved some money. Either way, my car now runs like a "normal" car without that start/stop nonsense!

restarting engine actually causes more where and tear on engine and componenets

Many thanks. This thing is hard on batteries, starters and engine all in the name of "saving our environment"...J0KE!

A GREAT IDEA & SIMPLE; I'LL TRY IT. A GOOD PRESENTATION.

Thanks !! finally found the solution , you are the man !!!

Biggest issue for me isn't the slight delay in the engine starting, it's turning off an engine that's already off and starting the darned thing up again! I pull up outside my house, wiggle back and forth a bit to get close to the wall, handbrake on, shift into park, press the button to turn the engine off ... and the engine starts!

Measure the voltage if the engine is on. It must be above 14 V. I did this procedure but the voltage was ca 13,8 V - its bad for battery.

Thanks a lot ! That was very helpful.

Great info Brother, hope it works on my 09 Passat here in Ireland! Thanks for that...

He finally gets to the point at 4:41

I HATE STOP/START!!! Thanks for making this video. Most of the time I want the engine running while stopped. The only real savings is when you are waiting in the drive-thru line at a fast food joint or when you stop to talk with someone for a while. Otherwise, not much saved when you just stop at a light or stop sign. Also, I think that there is a dedicated extra battery for the stop/start system and this is charged from the alternator, so that when you think that the electrical system is turned off simply by disconnecting the main battery, there is still current in the system. Here is a link to how this is done on the Jeep Wrangler JL: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hM5idJin1eC-c3U.html

This is very helpful. Just got a Hyundai Tucson. Hopefully I can get this taken care of

Thank You for sharing your information ❤😊.

I can’t stand even witnessing a car with this feature.

"That tiny delay" actually causes confusion to other drivers. I don't use that.

I’m bout to buy 2019 Buick Encore essence awd!! Thanks for the intel💯

THIS WAS GERAT - THANK YOU !