If you buy a replacement starter from an auto parts store, they come with a lifetime warranty.
I've had to replace a couple (long before I started shutting the engine to save fuel), and all you do is walk in with a faulty starter, tell them your phone number (because I had lost the receipt but they keep records in the computer) and walk out with a new starter (also with the same lifetime warranty.)
So for the cost of replacing the starter just once you get a lifetime of starting it at every stoplight.
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Originally Posted by cfg83
At extended stops in cold weather, an unheated oxygen sensor could cool off to the point where it is no longer operating normally. The ECU/PCM can detect this state and will spend more time in open-loop mode, which would burn more fuel.
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Someone posted here recently pointing out that if you start accelerating immediately after starting, it is irrelevant whether the computer is compensating for the temperature because high-idle/open-loop have the most effect at idle or steady state (low throttle, low RPMs)
How many seconds of idling is equivalent to starting your engine? - IWillTry