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Crawl control for downhills?

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I was watching a YouTube video about “how to use crawl controls…..they film a 4- Runner going down a steep bumpy hill….WOW! I was impressed how crawl control was able to keep the 4-Runner in complete control on it’s descent….
I live on a hill side, Coffee farm with a dirt, rocky roads…so I try my crawl control….on my way down…. It perform very well ..

I never knew this crawl control. Could be use for going down hills….giving you complete control of the rate of descent…and kept the the truck from speeding up…while going down hill….

I use apply a lot of braking…besides being in 4-low and using 1st & 2nd gears… so for those really steep places? Consider using the crawl controls…!
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Technically you’re right. But 4-lo and 1st gear is so low in my truck (5.29s), that I don’t know if using crawl control would ever be necessary.

I recently drove down a very narrow switchback trail in a rainstorm. The trail was in terrible shape and basically flash flooding/falling apart under my tires. The grade was steep; 11%* maybe? My truck is very heavy and death was only a couple feet to my left. 5-7 mph max, even on the straight parts. Puckering experience for sure.

But still, 4-lo and 1st was still almost too low except for the switchback (u-turn) parts. I felt fine in 2nd and hardly needed to use the brakes to stay at my comfortable 5 mph.

Not sure how much the 5.29s contributed to that. Maybe stock would’ve been much sketchier.

*11% is a guess. It was the type of steep where your body wants to slide closer to the steering wheel, lol.
 
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11% is 1.1 foot drop per every 10 feet. Sounds like you were more in the 30% range. Glad you made it.
 
I tried CC a few times for fun, not when I really needed it. It seems like a neat feature but I suspect I'll only use it when I'm stuck since it simulates front and rear lockers, if I remember right. The steep descents you folks have mentioned sound like good applications.
 
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11% is 1.1 foot drop per every 10 feet. Sounds like you were more in the 30% range. Glad you made it.
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Total guess - figured I was probably way off. But yeah, I was in the "bad idea in this weather" range for sure, lol.
 
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