Not many flat sections of road here you're either going up or down and I discovered my 2026 Civic activates the brake going down hill to not exceed set speed. I just wish it'd let it coast as fast as it wants or at least 8-10 mph above set speed. It's wasting energy and brake pads. No way to disable this function as far as I can tell, other than disengaging CC going down hills that are steep enough that coasting speed exceeds CC set speed.
No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride.
My 2016 Tiguan activates engine braking by shiting down automatically. The Tiguan only does that if I apply the brakes then release the brake. If I touch the gas it returns to normal.
My new Grand Cherokee is loaded with "adaptive" systems. I adapted by turning them off. Bonus: My auto start/stop feature is not working. Yay! I hope to God they dont fix it when it goes in the shop for the first service!
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my 2021 RAV4 XLE will do that, I have not tried to cut off the adaptive or radar ready cruise feature, but do set the distance to the minimum distance when I use cruise
my 2023 T-250 does not have adaptive cruise, but it will brake on downhills if he cruise is on, which in this area is not often,
Originally posted by Anush: My 2016 Tiguan activates engine braking by shiting down automatically. The Tiguan only does that if I apply the brakes then release the brake. If I touch the gas it returns to normal.
I believe that's how my Ridgeline operates, the Civic has a manual transmission so it can't shift gears on its own.
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Originally posted by lyman: my 2021 RAV4 XLE will do that, I have not tried to cut off the adaptive or radar ready cruise feature, but do set the distance to the minimum distance when I use cruise....
I expect it to brake on hills and to slow to follow cars ahead when in active cruise. On my Corolla I simply held the CC button down for an extra second and that engaged conventional cruise and I'm almost positive it didn't brake on hills then.
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My 2016 Tiguan activates engine braking by shiting down automatically.
Does it leave a brown slick on the road?
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Originally posted by Anush: My 2016 Tiguan activates engine braking by shifting down automatically. The Tiguan only does that if I apply the brakes then release the brake. If I touch the gas it returns to normal.
Originally posted by Anush: My 2016 Tiguan activates engine braking by shiting down automatically. The Tiguan only does that if I apply the brakes then release the brake. If I touch the gas it returns to normal.
That sounds better. I manually downshift when going downhill and I want to slow down.
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Originally posted by Rawny: I'd rather it put on the brakes than down shift. Brakes are cheaper than a transmission.
The current Civics are all CVTs anyway, so it cannot down shift in the traditional sense.
I've never had a CVT car but I know some can utilize engine braking by selecting preset ratios which act as simulated gears. Some CVTs even have paddle shifters.
No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride.
Speaking of three pedals, I just about put my son through the windshield in my dad’s C7. Went to push the clutch in with my left foot and the car came to a screeching halt because it’s an automatic and the brake pedal is double width.
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Originally posted by trapper189: Speaking of three pedals, I just about put my son through the windshield in my dad’s C7. Went to push the clutch in with my left foot and the car came to a screeching halt because it’s an automatic and the brake pedal is double width.
LOL.
I did almost the same thing on a motorcycle. I was picking up a used Suzuki scooter at a Harley dealer on a Friday afternoon and slowly threading my way through the hundreds of Harley riders hanging around in the parking lot drinking beer and listening to a band. Making a slow speed left turn to scoot past a group standing there, as I leaned I pulled in the clutch. Only I'd forgot that on a scooter the left lever isn't the clutch rather the brake. It was all I could do to keep it (and me) from falling on our side right in front of everyone!
The guys who saw I almost fall over were cool about it and started walking ahead of me clearing a path and yelling "get away make room for the scooter, the scooter is coming through, back up make room"! I was never so thankful to be wearing a full face helmet.
No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride.
Originally posted by ridewv: Not many flat sections of road here you're either going up or down and I discovered my 2026 Civic activates the brake going down hill to not exceed set speed. I just wish it'd let it coast as fast as it wants or at least 8-10 mph above set speed. It's wasting energy and brake pads. No way to disable this function as far as I can tell, other than disengaging CC going down hills that are steep enough that coasting speed exceeds CC set speed.
Interesting. It was in the running for my lady’s next vehicle as she is a Honda gal. But the above is kind of lame. It was an interesting list of cars. I think the Elantra N is out because she has a Kia now and is kind of done with the Korean makes. Hard to argue against it though, for the money. Probably will end up with one of three Toyota models. None of them are wrong wheel drive. Honda hasn’t made a RWD car since my AP2 and zero AWD cars. Hype R would have been so outstanding with SH-AWD. 6MT and RWD or AWD pickings is getting awful slim.
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For all I know cars from other makes could do the same thing now and all with adaptive cruise will. What I've been doing is leaving it on regular cruise so it doesn't slow down to pace the car in front of me and when going down a steepish grade, cancel CC to let the car coast. When I get to the bottom, or if the hill isn't quite steep enough, or there's a head wind, and the car looses speed hit resume.This message has been edited. Last edited by: ridewv,
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