Our cars benefit from increasingly more technologies, generally speaking this provides us an additional comfort of use. Having said that, technology has its positive aspects, but also has some down sides, with it, we discover bugs appearing! One of them is the Start and Stop feature, which is designed to help you save fuel and preserve the planet. You may encounter complications and want to turn off the start stop technology on Kia Sorento . But how do I do that? In this article we will help you figure out how this system works, how to disable start and stop on xxx, and what are the repeated complications you may encounter with this option.

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How does the Start Stop on Kia Sorento work?

Start Stop technology operation

Start Stop is a recent technology that began to be integrated into recent vehicles about ten years ago. This technology aims to limit the fuel consumption of your Kia Sorento and to protect the environment by limiting CO2 emissions. Its usefulness is mainly important in an urban environment. Obviously, cars can be made to spend up to 35% of their time at a standstill during urban journeys. The guarantee of start and stop on your car is to save you between 5% and 15% in fuel consumption. Nevertheless, on long trips or secondary roads, its usefulness is limited. How it works:

  • A reinforced starter or a last generation alternator with included starter
  • When you shift into neutral and release the clutch pedal, the engine will shut off.
  • When you shift into gear, the car will immediately restart.

On some improved variants, your Kia Sorento will even be able to shut down although you are not stopped (up to 20km/h on some start and stop).

Start Stop Kia Sorento: Positive aspects and down sides

Nevertheless this system has real positive aspects in terms of environmental preservation and fuel economy, there are however some down sides to having a start and stop on Kia Sorento .

  • Benefits:

    • You will make fuel and CO2 emission savings if you have a mainly urban use of your Kia Sorento. You will too. Furthermore, you will be able to benefit from the purchase of a car with a more interesting bonus/malus, allowing you to to buy a cheaper vehicle . At last, you will benefit from an additional comfort because your engine will be stopped when you pass red lights or stops.

  • Disadvantages

    • It’s not interesting for you to have this system if you drive on secondary roads . This system is actually quite expensive to buy (between 500 and 1500€) . At last, the first generations of start stop technology can undergo a premature wear of the starter and the battery of your Kia Sorento. you will have to buy or change your battery more often,

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How to turn off Start Stop technology on Kia Sorento?

Now let’s move on to the component you’re probably most interested in, how to disable, disconnect or take out the start stop on your Kia Sorento? .
Based on how you use your vehicle, you may want to disable this system, which can be bothersome or you may feel that your starter is going through premature wear, or you may have had to purchase a new AGM or EFB battery on your Kia Sorento . All these are valid factors to disable your start and stop system.
In this article are the two most important techniques for disabling the start and stop on Kia Sorento:

  • The traditional method: Know, if you don’t already know it, that there is a start and stop disable button on your center console (depending on the year of your vehicle you may have a button labeled “ECO”, “Start and Stop” or “S&S”) that you can use to disconnect your start and stop on every start. Nevertheless, this method requires you to redo the manipulation every time you start the car.
  • It is possible that the start and stop of your Kia Sorento is switched off totally: It is possible that the start and stop of your Kia Sorento is switched on unintentionally, or that it does not match the use you have of your vehicle. In such a case, you can disconnect it by two different solutions. You can create a bridge at the rear of the activation button of your start and stop . At last, second method you can disconnect the battery charge indicator cable that is on the terminals of your battery, which will make your Kia Sorento believe that the battery is tired and will deactivate the start and stop to protect your autonomy.

Start Stop Technology complications Kia Sorento

Concerning the different complications you might encounter with the start and stop of your Kia Sorento . It is possible that this is activated in an unforeseen way , for example you are doing a manoeuvre and you don’t have time to replace to reverse gear and the vehicle stops. It is possible that this problem is related to the series of your Kia Sorento. Try to completely deactivate your Start and Stop as seen in the previous section to avoid this problem or go to your mechanic to discover if there is a particular solution. Another problem encountered by Kia Sorento owners is that you may experience premature wear of your battery or starter motor. These particular parts for start and stop are expensive, and if you have already checked out the battery prices for xxx or those of the starters you must have discovered that they are much more expensive than traditional batteries, do not think twice to deactivate this system to avoid this kind of problem. Finally, it may be that your start and stop on Kia Sorento does not work anymore , in this case, go to your motor mechanic to correct this problem.

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