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[quote=Anonymous]Wow, I'm surprised this thread is still going on. Is the guy still there? What's he peeing in? Is someone bringing him coffee?

I assume the idling cop vehicles is because if you shut off an engine you never can be 100% sure it will start again. As to engines, I know nothing about modern engines and not a lot about engines in general, but a friend has his mother's original 1965 Ford Custom which was bought with an engine (I forget the size/name of the engine but we were looking it up one day) generally used for law enforcement vehicles at the time. I don't know how or why she happened to pick that engine, except that it was the last Ford Custom on the lot that year. I imagine the extra cooling mentioned by one poster also reduces the odds of overheating when idling, especially if AC is running as well.

The claim that the engine shuts down when at a red light was perplexing, so I looked that up. As I understand it (there has been extensive debate about the issue over the years between auto manufacturers and regulators as well as interested parties) about auto shut off--for vehicles idling for [i]extended[/i] time periods. Such as when someone is parked idling with heat or AC on. On the other hand, when keyless operation showed up, people died when they left their car idling in the garage for hours after forgetting to shut it off using the key fob.

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