Dear Members, Using Low Gear to slow a car down while on a long downgrade isn't it the very best advice, because our high compression engines in trying to slow the vehicle down can stretch rod bearing cap bolts, that's why dragster and funny cars and other racing cars throw there vehicles in neutral at the end of the quarter mile. Trucks are know to use lower gears on a down grade but they don't hurt the engines cause its a low compression engine, except for deisel , but diesel engines are extra extra heavy duty. Chances are you wouldn't stretch a bearing cap slowing one of those things down from coming out of orbit. If I was coming down a long long down grade, at most I would slip into second gear only, and gently tap my brakes. Do you agree Dan???? Teddy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]