I always use cruise while towing with the Duramax. I suppose if I were pulling large grades like coming out of Phoenix I wouldn’t but otherwise I always do.
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 8, 2023, at 8:36 AM, Bob Rentfro via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > The MIL finally threw in the towel after having two weeks to live since the > beginning of March. We’re on our way back to Illinois with the little > remaining stuff that she had so that Mrs. Bob and her brothers can split this > stuff up. I got a 4 x 8 trailer from U-Haul that I’m pulling with her Outback. > The Uhaul site says that this little trailer weighs 850 pounds. I probably > have no more than 500 pounds of stuff in it. It’s so very annoying because I > could’ve easily got the stuff in my truck but there’s a certain someone he > doesn’t want to ride cross-country in my truck. > Anywho… I know that I read many many things it says do not use cruise control > while towing. I had gone through pretty much all of the mountains up in > northern Arizona and I knew I was on a kind of a nice flat area and I was > going to set the cruise control and see what happens. There was one > aggressive incline at the end of this flat spot before I got to Holbrook, and > this Subaru knew that it wanted to maintain that speed, and the RPM started > increasing very quickly. Like scary quickly. > So I switched it off and saw the evidence why they say don’t. > > AZBob > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
