Your
Driving and
the
Road
Know how to
go
down hills. The
most important thing to know is this:
let your engine do some
of
the
slowing down. Don’t make your
brakes do it all. Shift to a lower gear
when you
go
down a steep or long
hill. That way,
you
will slow down
without excessive use
of
your brakes.
CA
UT/ON
A
If
you don’t shift down, your
brakes could get
so
hot that
they wouldn’t work well.
You
would then have poor braking or
even none going down a hill. You
could crash. Shift down
to
let your
engine assist your brakes on a
steep downhill slope.
A
Coasting downhill in
N
r
-
a
(Neutral)
or
with the ignition
off
is dangerous. Your brakes will
have to do all the work
of
slowing
down. They could get
so
hot that
they wouldn’t work well. You
could crash. Always have your
engine running and your vehicle in
gear when you
go
downhill.
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