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Originally Posted by mcrews
Help me.........do you tow with 'engine on'?????????
Does this thread talk about driving w/ 'engine off'?????????
Then PLEASE EXPLAIN the relevance.
THis pops up every time some asks about ENGINE ON COASTING IN NEUTRAL
There is NO CONECTION between the two.  |
There is a connection: the towing they're talking about is towing the car, not using the car to do the towing. Pulling the car with its drive wheels on the ground will cause part of the transmission to turn; some transmissions are safe to be spun by the wheels indefinitely because of how their lubrication systems are set up, others are not.
The best place to look for information on this is on RV sites. Pulling a dinghy vehicle around (also called
flat towing) is a pretty quick way to utterly destroy the drivetrain of your dinghy if it can't take it, it's way far back there completely hidden behind the tow vehicle, you'd never see if something went awry. It's also why you often see compact 4x4 dinghy vehicles, just shift the transfer case into neutral and (usually) no further worries about the drivetrain, manual or automatic.
NOTE: the linked article points out that no Toyota automatic tranny is good for flat towing. That includes the OP's Camry, so that's at least one question answered.