So, I've parked up by MacDonalds to go for a wee and buy a drink. Parked next to a car ( Vauxhall something ) with a chap sat at the driver's seat, engine running. Come back to the car, checking stuff on my phone. So that's at least 20 minutes he has been sat there with the engine running.
I notice people doing this from time to time, always seem to be a bunch of cars doing it at motorway service stations ( sitting in their cars for long periods with the motor running).
Why do people do this? In the winter maybe to have the heater running but it's sunny today, he's got his windows open ( so presumably isn't using the air con)so he's just burning fuel and smelling his own diesel fumes.
It's just a weird little phenomenon that I don't understand.
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There is a level crossing on my cycle to work. The number of people who just leaving their diesel blowing out stink is unbelievable. There are signs there saying to switch your engine off but they still leave them on.
It's a bit more understandable in the middle of winter when they might want to keep the heater on, but this time of year it's just stupid.
Car audio guys do it to save their battery
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What’s more annoying is that you can’t have the radio on without the other electrics powered up, so after about 45mins you get a battery charge warning, even though as far as I can tell it’s fine.
Fuel is too expensive to sit with the engine running for more than a minute at most. Even if I’m at a long set of lights I tend to turn it off. Some people must literally have money to burn...
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The radio in my old Ford and in my slightly more recent Seat both work without the engine on and both have systems to turn themselves off after so long. Surprises me that more expensive vehicles can't do this.
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I can sit in my car with the ignition and stereo running, the engine doesn't do anything. Hybrid ftw.
People sitting with engines running like that should be fined, or shot. Or fined, THEN shot. Same as people sitting with the foot brake on, blinding every fucker behind them when clearly not going anywhere. Use your hand brake knobend.
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It’s only ruined by some miserable twat staring me out for enjoying my favourite CD on the way back to his car. Mind you, he might have good reason to look miserable - took him 20 mins to go in, have a piss and get a drink. Queue must have been really bad. Glad I’m outside with my favourite CD
It's not cheaper to idle if you're going to be stopped for a minute or more. I have proved that reasonably convincingly by driving for one month without doing, and one month with, because I'm a bit OCD about this sort of thing .
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"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
After a couple of minutes a little Peugeot pulled up and sat there with the engine running for the entire time we were there.
If it had been a bloke I'd have told him to switch it off or piss off, but I'm uncomfortable about approaching lone females with any kind of hostility so I left it.
My missus could've kicked her in the cookie though I suppose.