Steeper descents dangerous behavior

Ddays said:
Yes Bob, It's retarded. Looking through this thread you'd think that Jeeps are regularly flying off the roads because their brakes are overheating because the transmissions upshift and don't allow compression braking going down goddam hills. Whats being described is so minor to everyone thats it's only an issue to 2 guys!

I would love for anyone that has overheated their brakes on or offroad and had issues because of that to post up because unless there is some kind of mechanical failure it just doesn't happen. Brakes on Jeeps are probably the one thing that don't have any issues

And brake pads and rotors are inexpensive consumables - there is no reason to "save" them.
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Pennsylvania is almost a flat state, no?

Obviously you have visited places which are not flat, and you survived.
 
GP NOIR said:
Are you gaslighting, or just jumping on the dog pile?
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I asked in the beginning where they got the information that using tap shit would work the same as using Hill descent control and got some convoluted answer about watching the milage gauge that would show 99mpg (always does when coasting) and when it didn't show 99mpg going downhill that the jeep would become dangerous because it was no longer controlling the downhill speed and self-accelerating (likely overrunning the rpm's for selected gear and releasing the gear).... And still no reference to where in the owner's manual or online they learned that tap shift would work the same as descent control.

But to say the Jeep creates a dangerous downhill condition because tap shift does not work as they believe is should and apparently being the only 2 people with this issue because of some bullshit the brakes will overheat and disintegrate... come on

Did you read the entire thread or jump in the middle of it
 
NPC 6060⁸42 said:
Speaking of retarded. So glad you stopped by BoB.
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I did not mean to offend anyone. I grew up in the West, and have never visited the Appalachian mountains. I know that they are very pretty. Given that they are small, I assumed that they were historically called "mountains" because Lewis and Clark had not yet explored part of the West and discovered much larger mountains.

I read this site to learn about mountains in the USA: "https://allaboutamerica.com/united-states/which-us-states-have-the-most-mountains.html". Unfortunately, the Appalachians were not included. 😕
 
When I was 20 I backed my lifted Blazer down a boat ramp to load up a large Cobalt. I put the e-brake on to keep from going for a swim and forgot to take it off on the drive down from Lake Tahoe to Carson City. My brakes smoked something fierce before I figured out what happened. Nobody died.

Oh, I like turtles.
 
Mike Pierson said:
I did one time when I was a kid and used up my brakes going down long ass windy hill. Scared the shit out of when the pedal wasn’t doing anything. Learned then and there about downshifting, engine braking and luckily a solid ebrake.

This is a bullshit thread with make believe concerns.
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But but but compression braking is retarded!
 
jeeeep said:
I asked in the beginning where they got the information that using tap shit would work the same as using Hill descent control and got some convoluted answer about watching the milage gauge that would show 99mpg (always does when coasting) and when it didn't show 99mpg going downhill that the jeep would become dangerous because it was no longer controlling the downhill speed and self-accelerating (likely overrunning the rpm's for selected gear and releasing the gear).... And still no reference to where in the owner's manual or online they learned that tap shift would work the same as descent control.

But to say the Jeep creates a dangerous downhill condition because tap shift does not work as they believe is should and apparently being the only 2 people with this issue because of some bullshit the brakes will overheat and disintegrate... come on

Did you read the entire thread or jump in the middle of it
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Point to you. As an aircraft technician, I have to try and interpret squawks written by pilots who have no idea how to structure a sentence or spell and figure out why they grounded the airplane. To save time, I get to the meat of the matter and ignore the rest.

In this case it’s “Engine RPMs go up while descending. The Jeep acts as though the accelerator is applied. Brake effort increases and the vehicle doesn’t stop.” I ignored the 99 something or other and the rest of the blah blah blah as it was useless.

PS- I’ve had this happen to me. The harder I pressed the brake pedal, the faster the Jeep would go. Turned out I was stepping on the brake pedal and accelerator at the same time.
 
GP NOIR said:
PS- I’ve had this happen to me. The harder I pressed the brake pedal, the faster the Jeep would go. Turned out I was stepping on the brake pedal and accelerator at the same time.
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In all honesty, this is what I have wondered as to what is actually causing their issues...
 
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