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From: Silk on 18 Jun 2010 12:51 On 18/06/2010 13:08, Ret. wrote: > I can, of course, select a lower gear if I want to. My box allows for > that. I've just never felt the need to do so. So you choose to wear your brakes out and waste fuel when you could simply select a lower gear? How odd.
From: Mortimer on 18 Jun 2010 20:50 "Silk" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:hvg862$i62$3(a)speranza.aioe.org... > On 18/06/2010 13:08, Ret. wrote: > >> I can, of course, select a lower gear if I want to. My box allows for >> that. I've just never felt the need to do so. > > So you choose to wear your brakes out and waste fuel when you could simply > select a lower gear? How odd. When you are going downhill and so have your foot off the accelerator, how will using a higher gear consume more fuel than doing so in a lower gear? Surely in a modern car with an engine management unit the fuel consumption with your foot off the throttle and the car in gear rather than in neutral will be zero because the EMU cuts off the fuel supply. But I agree with your point about increased wear and heating on brakes.
From: Silk on 19 Jun 2010 09:22
On 18/06/2010 13:11, Ret. wrote: > My auto box still allows for manual selection of lower gears if the > driver feels that it is necessary. I've never felt that necessity. I > agree that there is differing opinion on the extent to which engine > braking should be used. If you were a Police Advanced Driver as you say, you'd know the accepted opinion on the use of engine braking. There may be some differences of opinion of the extent to which it is used with regards to manual selection of gears in an automatic, but not that it shouldn't, as it appears you're trying to say. |