nightflight wrote:wrt using gears to slow, on my usual drive there's a steep hill which I'll turn into (tight 90 degree corner, usually having to stop to giveway to uphill traffic) at a crawling speed in 1st gear. I'll then cover the brake pedal and hold first gear all the way down the hill as the engine will happily (albeit noisly) rev up to 4500rpm whilst keeping me at a nice speed, then I've still got unfaded brakes ready to slow down for the T junction at the bottom of the hill.
Or should I be using my brakes for slow?
The hard of thinking will probably give you the standardised guff about "brakes to slow, gears to go", but I think what you are doing is sensible in the situation you describe. With modern brakes it is unlikely that brake fade would occur, but in similar circumstances I would probably do what you do.