Being Danish.. we are used to very very flat roads, but currently we are on a car vacation to southern France, and driving on steep hills is rather new to me.. today I drove down a 30% downhill driveway so steep my front bumber scraped a bit at the bottom.
It made me wonder how steep a road a normal car can go down before the engine will suffer oil starvation. ? Our car is a toyota auris with a 1zr-fae engine. And the oil light stayed off. But I am still worried for my engine.
What are people experience? Is 30 % too extreme?
Thanks
Søren
It made me wonder how steep a road a normal car can go down before the engine will suffer oil starvation. ? Our car is a toyota auris with a 1zr-fae engine. And the oil light stayed off. But I am still worried for my engine.
What are people experience? Is 30 % too extreme?
Thanks
Søren