My wife and I recently went on a 7,900 mile drive around the northern US and southern Canada in our brand new 2018 VW Golf. About halfway through the trip, while driving through the Canadian Rockies, she started doing something that worried me greatly. She would be driving uphill just fine, at or …

Does it hurt the brakes to apply them when going downhill?

Michael_Marshall_1 August 6, 2018, 4:50am 21

I like downshifting to arrest speed myself.

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