Thanks. Retarder serve to slow vehicles, or maintain a steady speed on declines, and help prevent the vehicle 'running away' by accelerating down the decline. They are not usually capable of bringing vehicles to a standstill, as their effectiveness diminishes as vehicle speed lowers. They are usually used as an additional 'assistance' to slow Might be a silly question to you hardcore truckers but what does the retarder do? Iniciar sessão Loja The retarder uses your transmission to slow the truck down, hence the whirling sound you hear with the retarder engaged. Typically it is used to maintain your speed going down hills to prevent the truck from accelerating to an uncontrollable speed. In real life, you would use your retarder to limit the amount of speed your truck picks up. How do you turn off the retarder? It says to push a key but you can't make out what that key is. It looks like a period but that key dosen't help either. Can someone help? Thanks. Re: Retarder activated. #5 by Max » 30 May 2016 22:38. retarder is activated/increased by the key just aside of L-key (semicolon key). deactivated/decresed is by the next key aside that (apostrofe key). you can also change binding to other key (s). Nobody can tell you anything about it. If you lift your gas pedal, you "use" engine break. I dont drive a semi truck irl so i dont know if you would use the retarder and maintain your throttle/pedal position while going downhill. I my car, I just down shift to a lower gear and dont use my gas pedal to maintain speed downhill. I never use my break pedal unless i have to slow down. First one mission is good, i have all controls but 2nd or 3rd mission i have lost retarder function and sometimes engine brake. When i change hotkeys for retarder it still doesn't work. (lever don't move) What i have tried: 1. Copying controls from other profile - doesn't work 2. recreating new profile - doesn't work 3. Reinstalling the game Euro Truck Simulator 2. Differing types of engine retarder's or, "Jake Brakes". Most modern REAL WORLD engines of today have lowered engine compression ratios, thus making a true,"Retarder" next to useless, as I notice while playing ETS2. In my day, we called this Device a "Jake Brake" (or Jacob's Brake". In the North American built Trucks that WqkNM.

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