Car Repair Skills Everyone Should Have

[fhdz]

This entire thread is a microcosm of Languish.  It needs to be dipped in bronze and placed on the mantle for all to see, forever and ever.

No shit.

[fhdz]

BTW, any car can engine brake, manual trans are better for it, but auto trans works too. I have come down a mountain trail without ever touching the brakes, 4 low and low gear all the way down.

There is a confusion of terminology.  Earlier there was a question about signs which ban "engine brakes".  That is really a ban on Jake Brakes.  It is true that gearing down a transmission is a form of engine braking but it is not the type of braking which is banned.

I understand that there's a semantic issue. My post(s) had nothing to do with what was banned, but rather what was loud.

Jake breaks are loud and so are banned.  Gearing down our using a lower gear down a hill is not necessarily loud and so is not banned.

I'm not sure how many different ways there are for me to say that I don't care about what's banned or not banned. You're having an argument with some other person. Pro tip: it isn't me.

  Normal engine braking is just loud, not banned.

[CountDeMoney]

This entire thread is a microcosm of Languish.  It needs to be dipped in bronze and placed on the mantle for all to see, forever and ever.

it's amazing some survive when they go outside.

They won't be able to hear a Chevy Impala's banned drum brakes or something.

[PDH]

I downshifted today from the 45 zone to the 30 zone.  I checked for cops.

[CountDeMoney]

I downshifted today from the 45 zone to the 30 zone.  I checked for cops.

We heard you all the way over here.

[fhdz]

I downshifted today from the 45 zone to the 30 zone.  I checked for cops.

From what I understand, downshifting isn't banned.

[Ed Anger]

This entire thread is a microcosm of Languish.  It needs to be dipped in bronze and placed on the mantle for all to see, forever and ever.

No shit.

A big 'ol Assburger shitburger

[11B4V]

It's acutually quite funny.

[fhdz]

It's acutually quite funny.

So funny it is just loud, or so funny it's banned?

[11B4V]

It's acutually quite funny.

So funny it is just loud, or so funny it's banned?

Depends on the local ordinances

[fhdz]

It's acutually quite funny.

So funny it is just loud, or so funny it's banned?

Depends on the local ordinances

God, isn't that the truth? Fucking ordinances.

[Grey Fox]

NIMBY is strong.

[lustindarkness]

This entire thread is a microcosm of Languish.  It needs to be dipped in bronze and placed on the mantle for all to see, forever and ever.

[Monoriu]

This entire thread is a microcosm of Languish.  It needs to be dipped in bronze and placed on the mantle for all to see, forever and ever.

it's amazing some survive when they go outside.

I am still alive 

[DontSayBanana]

I love how certain people here seem to have completely ignored the information given about how a jake brake and downshifting are totally different beasts.

Downshift engine braking is not loud, unless you're dropping to way too low a gear.  All that happens is the engine revs high for a second or two.  It's the same sound as a typical cop's Crown Vic revving up to chase someone, and that's only for a really drastic drop in gearing and speed.  A drop from, say, 55 to 43 (5th to 4th gear on my V6) isn't significantly audible at all.

Jake braking is only loud because it forcibly vents extra exhaust.  As one link in this very thread put it, it basically turns a power-producing diesel engine into a power-consuming air compressor, and I'm pretty sure nobody in this thread would debate that even a small air compressor is pretty damn loud.