YAY! Blue Ridge Parkway in NC Reopened!
It's a week earlier than announced, with a two-lane 'jog' around the 200 yard long failed area. 15 mph speed limit thru that area, and they made a point of saying that it will be enforced. (This is...
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JRS & B wrote:
Terryallan - I seem to remember being in third gear, not OD, but it truly needed to be in second gear.
Those of us who normally reside in flat country sometimes overlook the obvious and we find out that if the the posted signs say something about downshifting into second gear, that those signs do not mean to simply downshift into the next available gear. They mean what they say.
We do happen to have a brand new family car with only 200 miles on it. I will definitely read up on your technique before we head out to visit my sister in PA.
Depending on what it is, and what trany. It may do it for you. Not all do. When I turn off OD in the Escape. There is a symbol of a car going down a hill that appears on the instrument cluster. I turn the OD off while gong up as well. Saves the trany from hunting, and the engine from lugging.
In my 4 speed truck, with the TT, depending on the grade/ road. I start down in 1st gear. And as it levels off, I shift up to second. I only have to use the brakes very little. Not at all on Saluda Grade, on I-26. Some on Black Mountain., and only for the curves on 321
