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Topic	Do you engine brake?
dancer62 08/17/19 6:25:11 AM #23:	TheSlinja posted... Mead posted... So Im looking up engine breaking and it just sounds like regular driving to me. I mean its not like you need to have your foot down on the accelerator or the brake at all times. Obviously easing off the gas is gonna make the car slow down gradually. I dont get it. yeah im super confused, ive always drove like this and there is all this jargon im just now hearing Modern cars with automatic transmission don't do engine braking unless you downshift. Manual transmission cars do engine braking when you let off the gas, more if you downshift. I find it disconcerting to let off the gas in an automatic transmission car and it doesn't slow down, cursed overdrive and pollution control. --- If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less <cite>dancer62 posted [p:926176810] in Do you eng... [t:77944478]...</cite> <quote>TheSlinja posted...</cite> <quote>Mead posted...</cite> <quote>So Im looking up engine breaking and it just sounds like regular driving to me. I mean its not like you need to have your foot down on the accelerator or the brake at all times. Obviously easing off the gas is gonna make the car slow down gradually. I dont get it. </quote> yeah im super confused, ive always drove like this and there is all this jargon im just now hearing</quote> Modern cars with automatic transmission don't do engine braking unless you downshift. Manual transmission cars do engine braking when you let off the gas, more if you downshift. I find it disconcerting to let off the gas in an automatic transmission car and it doesn't slow down, cursed overdrive and pollution control. --- If ballet was easy, it would be pointe-less</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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