Driving car at 75mph on position 3 :(

[Pavel Olavich]

Originally Posted by ChinoCharles

I never understood this. If you want the ability to engine brake, buy a manual! Putting extra wear on your expensive, complicated auto tranny isn't worth it! Brake pads are cheaper!

My buddy has this early 90's escort that is a total heap, but it only has 60,000 miles. Engine and everything is pristine, but the body is shot. Typical Ohio car. Its an auto. When I got my Yaris and started playing with it, he would ride with me and I would be shifting from gear to gear. He must have had race car envy. Low and behold a week later he started engine braking with his auto tranny. Now, his car sits in his yard. Tranny problems. I'll let you guys know when I'm done laughing at him.

Pavel's right though, all you did was burn some gas. No worries.

Sorry friend but you're out of touch with the realities of auto-tranny's sir....even Toyota suggest engine braking, and it shows in the Yaris 2007 LB owners manual.

I've owned many, many AT cars domestic and foreign, and after 100's of thousands of miles driven with engine braking, NEVER a transmisison problem. Never. Your friend's Ford Escort is a piece of sheet, and not representative of using engine-braking with a decent car. I just left a Ford Mustang for the Yaris and let me tell you that Ford produces a crap product...but that's another thread....lol

The Toyota AT in the Yaris is near bullet proof, and using the engine to slow the car down is NOT going to harm the transmission in ANY way unless one does it wrong, like dropping into 2nd gear at 75 or something crazy, but then that is also true with manual cars too.

The "brake pads are cheaper" thinking only is true if you drive a sheet car with a sheet tranny....this thinking does not apply to Honda's nor Toyota's and this is perhaps true with all Japanese products. With a Toyota AT, you can save your brakes and NOT at the expense of a big Tranny repair bill.....you can have it both ways.