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Hill descent control - 4/16/2008 2:43:42 PM

Garrickg1

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New member. Need a real expert here. Considering the purchase of an LR2. Buying a piece of property with a mountaintop home site and a very steep 0.4 mile driveway. Hoping the hill descent control will aid a scary descent at 4-6 mph without my jamming the brakes all the way down . The sales literature would have me believe it will do just fine. But doesn't the hill descent use the abs braking system? Should I be concerned about burning up my brakes, high cost, high maintenance if I go up and down 2-3 X/day? What do you think guys?

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RE: Hill descent control - 4/16/2008 5:52:47 PM

KarlP

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Fron what I understand, it basically manages the brakes for you so you can control the car (as you suspect). Do you have a choice on the driveway? I just built and there was a big todo about the grade of the driveway having to be under 10%. I don't quite understand it, but the engineer and the excavation contracter has some discussion around it.

I don't know if I'd want a driveway grade that steep regardless of the vehicle.

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RE: Hill descent control - 4/16/2008 9:30:45 PM

roverguy7

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yes, the HDC uses the ABS sytem. however, it will pulse the brakes one by one, much better then all 4 being applied in a nnormal braking situation. also, in a LR2, you can controll the speed at which you transverse the slope with the cruise controll switches... i believe deault is set to something like 14 mph, so you might have to press down everytime yougo down the hill

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RE: Hill descent control - 4/17/2008 9:46:34 AM

Disco Mike

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You will like how the HDL works, it will be more then enough for your hill top.

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RE: Hill descent control - 5/2/2008 7:07:05 PM

drzjoint

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The HDC system is cool it even works well on snow and ice I stayed true and straight on my way down everyone else was sliding sideways

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