Cadillac ESCALADE ESV 2005 Owner's Manual

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Driving on Snow or IceMost of the time, those places where your tires meetthe road probably have good traction.However, if there is snow or ice between your tires andthe road, you can have a very slippery situation. Youwill have a lot less traction, or grip, and will needto very careful.What is the worst time for this? Wet ice. Very cold snowor ice can be slick and hard to drive on. But wet icecan be even more trouble because it may offer the leasttraction of all. You can get wet ice when it is aboutfreezing (32°F; 0°C) and freezing rain begins to fall. Tryto avoid driving on wet ice until salt and sand crewscan get there.Whatever the condition — smooth ice, packed, blowing,or loose snow — drive with caution.Accelerate gently. Try not to break the fragile traction.If you accelerate too fast, the drive wheels will spin andpolish the surface under the tires even more. SeeStabiliTrak® System on page 4-9, If You Are Stuck: InSand, Mud, Ice or Snow on page 4-45, and RockingYour Vehicle to Get It Out on page 4-46.Your anti-lock brakes improve your vehicle’s stabilitywhen you make a hard stop on a slippery road.Even though you have an anti-lock braking system, youwill want to begin stopping sooner than you would ondry pavement. See Anti-Lock Brake System (ABS)on page 4-7.4-42