Your
Driving
and
the
Road
e
“free-wheeling.
”
Your brakes will
have to do all the work and could
overheat and fade.
Avoid braking
so
hard that you lock
the wheels when going downhill. If
your front wheels are locked, you
can’t steer your vehicle. If your
wheels lock up during downhill
braking, you may feel the vehicle
starting to slide sideways.
To
regain
your direction, just ease off the
brakes and steer to keep the front of
the vehicle pointing straight
downhill.
Q:
Am
I
likely to stall when going
A:
0
e
downhill?
It’s much more likely to happen
going uphill. But if
it
happens going
downhill, here’s what to do.
Stop your vehicle by applying
the
regular brakes. Apply the parking
brake.
Shift to
P
(Park) (or to
Neutral
with
the manual transmission) and, while
still braking, restart the engine.
Shift back to a low gear, release
the
parking brake, and drive straight
down.
If
the
engine won’t start, get out and
Driving Across an Incline
Sooner
or
later, an off-road trail will
probably go across
the
incline
of
a hill.
If this happens, you have to decide
whether to try to drive across the
incline. Here are some things to
consider:
A hill that can be driven straight up
or down may be too steep to drive
across. When you go straight up or
down a hill, the length of the wheel
base (the distance from the front
wheels to the rear wheels) reduces
the likelihood the vehicle will
get help.
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