Liviu Marcus
Driving in the Winter: A complete Guide
The best way to have a safe drive during winter is to for you to arm yourself with helpful and useful information. The ice and snow aren’t friends; in fact, they offer most treacherous experience when you’re out there in winter with your car.
What winter driving guide do you need to equip yourself as you prepare against the sloppy, slick, and bumpy roads, winter storms, and unfavorable weather conditions. Whether it’s long or short-distance winter trip, you need to be guided properly?
Find out all the necessary useful information here. We’ll begin with the 3 ‘S’ elements of stay alert; stay in control; and slow down.
Know Your Drive Terrain
To avoid a skid or an accident, you must endeavor to get familiar with your driving terrain and surrounding, having the clues about ice, death zones, and dangerous spots on the road. Apart from road surface, have a pre-knowledge about icy and slippery spots when you drive into a shade of trees or mountains
Master Your Car Controls
The brake and the throttle are two most powerful controls you need to have perfect control over while driving in icy or snowy conditions. To maximize car performance, make sure you do a one-after-the-other kind of a procedure when applying the three controls of accelerating, cornering, and braking. Don’t combine these three controls when you’re in a straight line or entering a bend. Learn to separate them so your tires don’t exhaust thread grip with the road.
Wear Winter Safety Kit
Another tip on safe driving at winter is to make sure you wear the safety gear. You should pack winter clothes that will keep your entire body warm all through the trip. The list also includes gloves, boots, blanket, tow strap, emergency gear, and air compressor. You need to protect yourself against the harsh cold that comes with freezing weather.
Use Only Winter Tires
Scalingthe hurdles of the slippery, bumpy winter ride requires that you have winter tires installed on your car. Having them on your vehicle guarantees the greatest traction and maximum performance. Race tires aren’t good for winter drive because they neither increase grip nor allow you to turn or halt. To make sure you’re provided with traction control, ABS, and ECS systems even on ice, you need the winter tires in all instances.
Be in Control of Understeer
While on snow, ice, and many other low-traction surfaces, the driver must drive at the limit of their car’s power. When the car exceeds its limit of adhesion, you must be able to bring the back under control. With the stability control system, the new vehicles may be able to avoid a skid, older cars won’t; it’s the control skill of the driver that comes in handy here.
