2006-06-29 07:18:35 · 6 answers · asked by camaroconvertible 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
If you lose your brakes, you can down shift to 3rd 2nd then 1st to slow down before applying and possibly destroying your emergency brake. Also, if your automatic transmission can't take or strains & whines on a steep hill or mountain road, you can downshift for more power.
2006-06-29 07:32:17 · answer #1 · answered by Nia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it has those gears in the transmission. You can, in certain situations, choose to place the car into one of those gears, selectively. For example, if you are driving in heavy snow conditions, putting the car into a lower gear makes it easier to deal with the tendency of the drive wheels to lose traction at high revs.
2006-06-29 07:23:05 · answer #2 · answered by P. M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1st position will use all gears (from 1 to 4 usually)
2nd position will use from 1 to 3
3rd position will use the first 2.
This is the general idea, this can vary from one transmition to another.
2006-06-29 07:22:44 · answer #3 · answered by Milu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These extra gears are for towing, or if you get stuck in mud or snow. These gears help keep you from burning up the transmission while trying to get unstuck.
2006-06-29 07:29:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same reason it has N, R, P...you can select any gear manually and stay in that gear IE: pulling heavy load uphill, or racing, or whatever. Hope this helps.
2006-06-29 07:23:26 · answer #5 · answered by wrench this 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because there are times when you are going up/down really steep slopes that it is better to use these gears instead of keeping it in overdrive.
2006-06-29 07:22:01 · answer #6 · answered by eyebtired 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋