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your engine Switch off Health Idling is leaving your vehicle’s engine running. Turn off your engine when parked, loading or waiting at the roadside as vehicle fumes can damage your health and the environment. equivalent numbers of deaths caused each year from exposure to London’s air pollution. Don’t contribute. Good times to turn your engine off include: No. Ignitions in modern cars have eliminated this problem. Idling dirties your engine with incomplete combustion increas- ing wear and tear. Maintaining your vehicle is important for preventing breakdowns and reducing air pollution. No. Modern batteries need less engine running time. Motorists rarely need to carry jump leads. The AA has advice on how to prolong battery life. No. Turning off an engine and restarting it after a minute or longer causes less pollution than keeping the engine idling and uses less fuel. P O L Y C Y C L I C A R O M A T I C H Y D R O C A R B O N S P A R T I C U L A T E M A T T E R S U L PHUR DIOXIDE N I T R O G E N D I O X I D E B E N Z E N E F O R MA L D E HYDE Is it better to idle the vehicle as turning the engine off and on wears it out? Does starting an engine cause more pollution than idling? Does the engine need to stay on to keep the battery fully charged? Waiting to pick up passengers Picking up kids for the school run Loading and delivering goods or waiting at roadside Switch off for you and your family’s health. Some of these health problems could be reduced by switching off your engine: It can take up to an hour for an engine to cool down. Turning off your engine, but keeping the ignition on and the fan blowing, will provide warm air for some time. If you are concerned about passenger comfort, keep the engine idling to an absolute minimum in warm and cold weather. When it’s cold I need to keep my vehicle and passengers warm or warm up my engine O v e r 1 m i n u t e ? Low Emission Zone Clean Air Fund Asthma UK Automobile Association Quality Strategy Find out more: 9.9million 4,300 Mind your Play your part Asthma Heart disease Lung cancer drivers in London. The biggest exhaust fume contributors are: cars HGV’s buses coaches LGV’s taxis motorcycles Yes, but an idling engine does not keep a catalytic converter warm. They retain their heat for about 25 minutes after an engine is switched off anyway. Don’t catalytic converters need to be hot to work properly? Switch off if you will be stopped for more than one minute
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Idling is leaving your vehicle’s engine running. Turn off your engine when parked, loading or waiting at the roadside as vehicle fumes can damage your health and the environment.
equivalent numbers of deaths caused each year from exposure to London’s air pollution. Don’t contribute.
Good times to turn your engine off include:
No. Ignitions in modern cars have eliminated this problem. Idling dirties your engine with incomplete combustion increas-ing wear and tear. Maintaining your vehicle is important for preventing breakdowns and reducing air pollution.
No. Modern batteries need less engine running time. Motorists rarely need to carry jump leads. The AA has advice on how to prolong battery life.
No. Turning off an engine and restarting it after a minute or longer causes less pollution than keeping the engine idling and uses less fuel.
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Does starting an engine cause more pollution than idling?
Does the engine need to stay on to keep the battery fully charged?
Waiting to pick up passengers Picking up kids for the school run
Loading and delivering goods or waiting at roadside
Switch off for you and your family’s health. Some of these health problems could be reduced by switching off your engine:
It can take up to an hour for an engine to cool down. Turning off your engine, but keeping the ignition on and the fan blowing, will provide warm air for some time. If you are concerned about passenger comfort, keep the engine idling to an absolute minimum in warm and cold weather.
When it’s cold I need to keep my vehicle and passengers warm or warm up my engine
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Low Emission ZoneClean Air FundAsthma UKAutomobile Association Quality Strategy
Find out more:
9.9million
4,300
Mind your
Play your part
AsthmaHeart disease
Lung cancer
drivers in London. The biggest exhaust fume contributors are:cars HGV’s buses coaches LGV’s taxis motorcycles
Yes, but an idling engine does not keep a catalytic converter warm. They retain their heat for about 25 minutes after an engine is switched off anyway.
Don’t catalytic converters need to be hot to work properly?
Switch off if you will be stoppedfor more than one
minute
