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While I can turn off grade braking by pressing the load/haul button for 5 seconds it resets every time I restart the truck, is there someway to make the default OFF instead of on?

 

 

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Next time I go for a drive I'm going to disable it via the Tow/Haul botton and then set the seat memory and see if it's one of the parameters that is saved

TJay74 Senior Enthusiast

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being that is a safety feature I seriously doubt it is stored with the seat memory system.

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being that is a safety feature I seriously doubt it is stored with the seat memory system.

 

I thought that's what the brakes were for, since I never tow anything all this does for me is burn additional fuel

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If your worried about burning fuel while going down a hill then throw it in neutral, problem solved.

 

That will use more fuel. When coasting most engines shut off the fuel. And unless other years are different, mine doesn't do anything weird in manual mode. Just drive in M6.

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I am actually looking to learn more about this power grade breaking.  How it works, how dependable it is?  I live in the very high mountains and use manual transmissions to control speed of the truck in poor weather conditions so I can use the break to slow the truck down, or gas to safely speed the truck up according to what local traffic is doing.  This is becoming more and more important as more people are moving here and driving in the mountains from places it does not snow.  In the past with automatic transmissions I get undesired up shifts.  I would mannually force a down shift and the automatic would up shift anyway.  If I determine that I can go 50mph, will this power grade breaking allow me to move down hill at 40 to 45 mph so I can use gas and break to react to what traffic is doing?  Or if I come accross formation of snow plows will the transmission hold me down to the speed the formation is moving at and do not need to worry of over use of the break and lossing control of the truck from using breaking to control speed instead of using transmission to control speed.  Currently Jeep is the only company making a truck with a manual transmission.  Jeep conly use a babby plow.  I am a hospital worker and a first responder.  Only use a plow to make sure I can get to where I need to be, not to make money plowing parking lots.  Will this transmission work for me, or will I be asking it to do things it is not really designed for?

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