HILL DESCENT CONTROL
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HILL DESCENT CONTROL
This thing really works. Coming off the top of Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park in a heavy snow storm made me a believer. This truck is awesome, better than I ever expected. Just my opinion and it's worth alot to me.
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Are you talking about Hill Descent Control which is for slow speed crawling down hills or the Integrated Exhaust Brake which is for holding you and your trailer back on steep mountain highways? Here's a video of HDC working for me in Moab, UT a few weeks ago.
YouTube - ‪2011 Ford Super Duty Hill Descent Control Moab Utah‬‏
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Shepardsonp, It's not open yet. We went up as far as possible, where they had the gate closed. Lots of snow, especially for a south TX boy.
Epic, I think I'm talking about the exhaust brake, where you tap the brake in tow/haul. Your video is cool, thanks.
Epic, I think I'm talking about the exhaust brake, where you tap the brake in tow/haul. Your video is cool, thanks.
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I played a little with the Hill Descent Control. Seems to work under 10mph, but when I set it between 10-15mph it would creep up in speed then about 15mph it appeared to just turn itself off. The road was fairly rough, serious wash board, same feeling as one of my early Jeeps, when it would pop out of gear and take off.
If you want to use it, do it in 4low, at least the gearing will slow you.
The Hill Descent Control feature, IMHO, is unnecessary, and unsafe.
If you want to use it, do it in 4low, at least the gearing will slow you.
The Hill Descent Control feature, IMHO, is unnecessary, and unsafe.
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I get my engine brake to work with a couple of good brake pedal pushes while in tow mode. I haven't really found anywhere in the manual on how to properly activate it. Anybody know the 'proper' way to activate the engine brake going downhill?
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Just what you've been doing, tap your brakes, should activate and drop a gear. If you need more, step on brake a little harder, should drop another gear or 2. The bigger the trailer load, the more you will feel it.
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I'm experiencing same problem as wtrlogd. The manual says the HDC is supposed to work up to 20 mph and one can adjust their speed by touching accelerator or brake. On my 2011 SD, after tapping brake several times at very low speed, I can usually get HDC to engage and it seems to work up to about 8 mph but anything faster and it "lets go" and accelarates as if never engaged even though dash indicator is flashing. Has anyone else experienced this? Any fixes?
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