Yaris and mountain grades

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Originally Posted by jambo101

If you are going up steep hills the car will need to down shift whether its automatic or standard.Whats wrong with letting your auto pick the gear? isnt that why you bought the automatic?

Originally Posted by nemelek

The car will up and downshift a dozen times during the climb.

If the grade isn’t too steep and length of the climb isn’t too long I would leave it in 4th and let the car pick the gear it needs.

wrong and wrong.

I bought an automatic for traffic. For hills keep it in 3.