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Originally Posted by WilliCO
It's always a good idea, when moving down an extended grade, to use the transmission rather than the brakes to maintain speed - whether you drive a BMW, a semi, a school bus, or a Honda Fit.
But frankly there are no grades anywhere near Detroit where you would have the need to do that. He was talking about situations like we have here in Colorado, where we give back 2400 feet in elevation over an 8 mile distance between the Eisenhower Tunnel and Silverthorne.
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Thanks WilliCo (and Shark715) -pay attention subrven1 - the concept is to NOT NEEDLESSLY wear out the brakes. Nobody is advocating use of manually shifting to save brakes in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
ETA To remove a snarky and uncalled for portion of my original response