Chevrolet 2000 Venture Owner's Manual download pdf (Page 276)

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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 traction or “grip” and will need to be

very careful.

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 traction control, keep the system on.

It will improve your ability to accelerate when driving on

a slippery road. But you can turn the traction control

system off if you ever need to. (You should turn the

system off if your vehicle ever gets stuck in sand, mud, ice

or snow. See “Rocking Your Vehicle” in the Index.) Even

though your vehicle has a traction control system, you’ll

want to slow down and adjust your driving to the road

conditions. See “Traction Control System” in the Index.

If you don’t have traction control, accelerate gently.

Try not to break the gentle traction. If you accelerate too

fast, the drive wheels will spin and polish the surface

under the tires even more.

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