RustyShackleford
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Recently my wife was driving to the NC mountains, and our Leaf had a serious issue. She's a little vague about what happened, but seems to recall it was something about "extreme heat" and a need to "reduce speed". The car refused to go more than 50mph.
The stretch of road in question is definitely quite a grunt, being US Hwy 421 between Wilkesboro and Boone NC. As best I can tell from Google Earth, the road gains 2000 vertical-feet in about 8 miles (1500 ft of it in the last 5 miles or so). Steep. But my aging (2006 with 150K miles) Subaru Outback is able to make the climb maintaining 60 mph, although I downshift to 4th gear most of the way.
The air temperature was in the 70s, though pretty sunny.
Is this normal ?
The stretch of road in question is definitely quite a grunt, being US Hwy 421 between Wilkesboro and Boone NC. As best I can tell from Google Earth, the road gains 2000 vertical-feet in about 8 miles (1500 ft of it in the last 5 miles or so). Steep. But my aging (2006 with 150K miles) Subaru Outback is able to make the climb maintaining 60 mph, although I downshift to 4th gear most of the way.
The air temperature was in the 70s, though pretty sunny.
Is this normal ?