Jnhuk
Well-Known Member
Anyone drive an automatic horsebox? Pros & Cons please?
Most the new 7.5 ton chassis cabs that are built these days are now automatic so as to save fuel.
Hate it so much I'm selling and going back to geared.
It's not so much the slowness and clunkiness of the gears or the different braking - you get used to those - and it is nice to just sit and steer, but what I can't cope with is the lack of precision control in tight places.
I used to relish reversing in a tight space or inching through a tight turn into a gateway and I just don't have that inch-ability that I do with gears.
It worries me.
Totally disagree with this! An auto will 'creep' as long as you don't have your foot on the brake, therefore effortless inch-ability, where as with a clutch you really run the risk of killing the clutch by riding it in this way.