New member. Need a real expert here. Considering the purchase of an LR2. Buying a piece of property with a mountaintop home site and a very steep 0.4 mile driveway. Hoping the hill descent control will aid a scary descentat 4-6mph without my jamming the brakes all the way down. The sales literature would have me believe it will do just fine. But doesn't the hill descent use the abs braking system? Should I be concerned about burning up my brakes, high cost, high maintenance if I go up and down 2-3 X/day? What do you think guys?

 

Fron what I understand, it basically manages the brakes for you so you can control the car (as you suspect). Do you have a choice on the driveway? I just built and there was a big todo about the grade of the driveway having to be under 10%. I don't quite understand it, but the engineer and the excavation contracter has some discussion around it.

I don't know if I'd want a driveway grade that steep regardless of the vehicle.

 

yes,the HDC uses the ABS sytem. however, it will pulse the brakes one by one, much better then all 4 being applied in a nnormal braking situation. also, in a LR2, you can controll the speed at which you transverse the slope with the cruise controll switches...i believe deault is set to something like 14 mph, so you might have to press down everytime yougo down the hill


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You will like how the HDL works, it will be more then enough for your hill top.

 

The HDC system is cool it even works well on snow and ice I stayed true and straight on my way down everyone else was sliding sideways