Owner`s manual

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.
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.
2 Coasting downhill in
, N (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 weiL You could
crash. Always have your engine
running and your vehicle in gear
when you go downhill.
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