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I have a 2011 6.2L and have taken my truck over Cinnamon Pass, which is part of the Alpine Loop. I have yet to see a use for the hill descent mode. It's bad enough that our ubertrucks are not available with a manual transmission, so turning the downhill driving over to a computer programmed by a geek who's never been off-road seems stupid and dangerous to me. I've tried it out on much lesser roads, however, just to see how it works. Didn't like it for the same reasons you've specified. Using hill descent mode is the equivalent of signing up for a loss of control.Those who have said that a tune will help are missing the point in several ways. A tune changes the air/fuel/rpm map. Unless I'm terribly wrong, it won't change the firmware in the computer that dictates how the hill descent mode will function. Second, getting a tune is a problem in search of a solution. I've had my truck at high altitude, I've run it across the country at high speed in high temperatures, I've towed a heavy tandem axel trailer full to the top with heavy shop gear across country, and the truck performs beautifully. Why get a tune that might inferiorly alter the performance of a truck you are otherwise delighted with and which won't solve an only occasionally used feature that is stupid to use anyway?
I have a 2011 6.2L and have taken my truck over Cinnamon Pass, which is part of the Alpine Loop. I have yet to see a use for the hill descent mode. It's bad enough that our ubertrucks are not available with a manual transmission, so turning the downhill driving over to a computer programmed by a geek who's never been off-road seems stupid and dangerous to me. I've tried it out on much lesser roads, however, just to see how it works. Didn't like it for the same reasons you've specified. Using hill descent mode is the equivalent of signing up for a loss of control.
Those who have said that a tune will help are missing the point in several ways. A tune changes the air/fuel/rpm map. Unless I'm terribly wrong, it won't change the firmware in the computer that dictates how the hill descent mode will function. Second, getting a tune is a problem in search of a solution. I've had my truck at high altitude, I've run it across the country at high speed in high temperatures, I've towed a heavy tandem axel trailer full to the top with heavy shop gear across country, and the truck performs beautifully. Why get a tune that might inferiorly alter the performance of a truck you are otherwise delighted with and which won't solve an only occasionally used feature that is stupid to use anyway?
