Been driving going on 50 years, all of my vehicles were manual transmission until last year when I bought a Nissan Frontier pickup. Engine braking (going down a hill in a lower gear instead of riding the brakes) ain’t much of an issue in mostly flat Texas.
Last month I was driving around Pennsylvania, Upstate NY and Vermont, lots of steep grades. Way back in the 60’s my English grandpa taught me you drive down a hill in the same gear you’d drive up it.
Engine braking with an automatic transmission, good or bad?
Love it... When pulling our camper (up to 19K GVW) and going from Rapid City S. on Truck 16 there's some pretty steep and long grades.. The engine brake works so well that I rarely have to even touch the brakes when going down..
