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Driving on Snow or Ice
Most of the time, those places where your tires meet the
road probably have good traction.
However, if there is snow or ice between your tires
and
the
road, you can have a
very
slippery
situation. You'll
have a
lot less tracti'on or "grip" and
w i l l
weed to be very careful.
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What's the worst time for this? "Wet ice." Very cold
snow or ice can be slick and hard to drive on. But wet
ice can be even
more
trouble because it may offer the
least traction of all, You can get wet ice when it's about
freezing (32
'
F; 0 C) and freezing rain begins to fall.
Try to avoid driving on wet ice until salt and sand crews
can get there.
Whatever the condition
--
smooth ice, packed, blowing
or loose snow
--
drive with caution.
If you have the Trac System, keep the
system
on. It will
improve your ability to accelerate when driving on a
slippery road. Even though your vehicle has this system,
you'll want to slow down and adjust your driving to the
road
conditions. See "Trac System" in the Index.
If you don't have the Trac System, accelerate gently.
T r y
not to break the fragile traction. If you accelerate too
fast, the drive wheels will spin and polish the surface
under the tires even more.
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