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<blockquote data-quote="Heatho" data-source="post: 183966" data-attributes="member: 487"><p>With an auto you can always select the lowest gear anyway and use engine braking, actually the Prado manual states that you actually should do this going down a steep decent to preserve your brakes. I do it all the time and my transmission is fine, people who say it destroys transmissions obviously don't read the manual.</p><p></p><p>If extra steep I'll stop, put it in low range then select 1st and just crawl down, only needing to brake very gently when necessary.</p><p></p><p>As RJ said some newer models have "crawl control" which does basically the same thing with the press of a button plus automatically uses brakes too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Heatho, post: 183966, member: 487"] With an auto you can always select the lowest gear anyway and use engine braking, actually the Prado manual states that you actually should do this going down a steep decent to preserve your brakes. I do it all the time and my transmission is fine, people who say it destroys transmissions obviously don't read the manual. If extra steep I'll stop, put it in low range then select 1st and just crawl down, only needing to brake very gently when necessary. As RJ said some newer models have "crawl control" which does basically the same thing with the press of a button plus automatically uses brakes too. [/QUOTE]
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