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Originally Posted by koop
When you're stuck you shouldn't be flooring it.
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Exactly, feather the gas, go reverse and forward. Rock the car gently. Let some air out of the tires, dig yourself out with your snow brush/scraper.
I can't believe how many people I see absolutely flooring it with the pedal to the metal in winter. It's one of the worst things you can do and its literally digging your own grave as you either just melt the snow directly under the car turning it into ice while sinking further in, or what happened to Justin happens and the sudden traction with the car in gear with tires at full speed launches you into something solid.
That should be part of driver's ed or you get put on Canada's Worst Driver or something. Tons of accidents caused by that too with people trying to go up hills with their pedals welded to the floor.
After so many years in Calgary, I finally wisened up and just shoveled everything, even shoveled out about 6-7 feet into the actual roadway where everything was compacted by traffic. Even a little bit of snow will get you stuck if you lose momentum, control, and don't drive smartly. Tool 2 hours though. I hate bloody winter.
Doesn't mean I'm smart though - last year I thought I was being smart by putting the cars in the driveway so that when it snowed, I'd have less surface area to shovel. Wow. That was a brain freeze moment. I only expected light snow but it dumped big time like this year but worse. Not only did I have to excavate two cars out of what became giant mountain of snow like I was on some sort of polar expedition, but I also froze the engines on both and had to plug them in for a few days to get them to start again.