We just finished a road trip thru Western Colo. ( 2002 BUICK )
One of the downgrades was so long, and so steep, that, when we stopped at the bottom, there was a STRONG smell of sizzling brake-pad.
A mechanic friend says I could've ruined the pads, and warped the rotors !
Suggests I should've put the transmission in and let the trannie slow the car.
I know this was common practice with stick-shifts.... but wouldn't this practice overheat the auto transmission ?
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