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• Tips for driving in snow & Ice…. If your vehicle windscreen is covered with snow or ice, when starting your vehicle: 1. Adjust your heater-flow to ‘defrost’ 2. Point your interior sun-visors straight down to the floor [this will trap the defrost-air against the windscreen] 3. Set the fan-speed to 1 [low velocity heat flow is warmer than fast velocity] Blow on the back of your hand lightly and feel the warmth, now blow hard on the back of your hand and you will feel it cool….same source of heat, just different velocity.. When a cold car starts, the engine idle-speed is generally 200-400 rpm higher than a warmed engine, so if you have a manual transmission, shift into 2nd or even 3rd….Take your foot OFF of the accelerator…..DO NOT PRESS ON THE ACCELLORATOR….Now slowly release the clutch and the car should advance forward without additional acceleration. [think of it this way. If you were standing on an icyslick surface and wanted to go forward, would you begin running or would you ease forward??] Once moving, DO NOT accelerate hard…..just enough to get moving slowly. For an automatic transmission, never use ‘1’ [low] or ‘3’ [generally this is the same autoshifting without an overdrive gear [starts in low, shifts to second, then to third], so the starting gear is too low to allow an easy forward movement. Second [2] will generally get you moving without fishtailing… When driving in these hazardous conditions, maintain your steering in a controlled manner; no sudden turning of the steering wheel….this would just allow the car to slide sideways or even spin out of control. If the car slides sideways, turn your steering into the direction of the slide….i.e., back-end slides to the right, turn the steering to the right…. [slides to the left, turn to the left.] If the roads are dangerously slick and you are approaching a hilloverpassbridge, try to set your steering course BEFORE you make contact with it and hold it steady. Trying to change your course direction under these conditions will almost always result in sliding sideways or spinning. [Overpassesbridges freeze before the streets…..there’s no ground to absorb the chill effect of the temperature] Estimate how much speed it’s going to take for your car to reach the top and safely, accelerate to that speed…..If you try to accelerate going ‘up’, you will more than likely spin out…. When approaching to stop, try not placing your foot on the brake and shift to Neutral, thus allowing the car to coast slowly to a stop….braking suddenly will almost certainly make the car slide to the side. NEVER USE CRUISE CONTROL IN THESE CONDITIONS….acceleration is your worst enemy

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  Wednesday, January 16, 2013