Cruise control questions

Curiosity killing me!

Does anyone notice (pre and post transmission TSB) that the truck will engine break going down hills while using cruise control? Why does it do this. Also, today, I used s6 on the highway and cruise control and noticed that hills I normally drive on(using D for my gear selection with cruise control) were handled a lot more smoothly with wayyyy less downshifting using sport mode. I was actually able to get up them with AC on in 5th. Why is this?

 

Downshifts to try to maintain speed since CC can't use brakes.

 

I like picking up speed though!

 

Use the pedal on the right...

 

TS

 

-Hit cancel and resume when the speed bleeds off
-Bump the acc a few times to keep it from downshifting
-Use the peddle to accelerate above your cruise speed and it will resume when your speed ruduces back to the original set speed

 

My engine broke using cruise control

 

See I know about all of that great stuff but it's so stupid that I even have to cater to it. I have heard in the past that letting a vehicle engine break is signficantly better for gas mileage since the kinetic motion runs the engine rather than the solenoid and gas. This is just a petty complaint I guess...

 

Whoa! What the hell is this serious? Lol

 

Figued you did, just wasn't sure if you were trolling or not so I went along lol

 

Nah!!

 

push into neutral

 

Then should't have said it did.

 

park works better

 

That's how it works on my 1st gen, 3rd is no different.

 

Lollipop

 

Reported.

 

Cruise control maintains the speed that it's set at within a mph or 2. It will engine brake because that's the only way it can slow itself down. If your set at 65 and your going down a mountain it's not going to let's itself run away at 95mph

 

R for Racing

 

p for power