Many new cars come with automatic engine start-stop. These systems are designed to save the fuel wasted at idle by turning the engine off when you come to a stop. These systems are becoming more and ...

Chances are that if you bought a new car in the last couple of years or so, one of the modern technology features on it makes your engine shut down every time you stop for more than 1-2 seconds, ...

At that moment the engine might be ‘committed’ to stopping but is still spinning, so to avoid crunching, one solenoid fires up the starter motor to synchronise its speed with the engine before the ...