On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 00:14:28 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

But why would you bother when it's simple to just turn off the ignition?

'cause a diesel, burning it's own oil, will just carry on switched
off or not... B-)

Surely the important thing is to get the car to a standstill as safely
as possible?

So just use the foot brake a bit harder than normal to bring both car
and engine to a safe and controlled standstill.

The orginal start of this thread was based in the US. They mostly
drive automatics over there so the pigging thing will change down to
counter act the braking. Selecting N still doesn't strike me as
"right" though, selecting the highest fixed drive and braking ought
to work. Assuming the auto box and/or computers will allow that
change to happen with the engine under full throttle.

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Cheers
Dave.