What if the car stuck in the snow

Layfhaker arranged Tips from simple to complex. But you can use them in any order and combination with each other depending on the situation and the existing equipment at hand.

1. Gazuyte not and do not panic

Once you feel that the car starts to get stuck, stop to press the gas to the floor and relax. If the forward drive fails, try to move backwards to get out on his own track.

Touch smoothly, without sudden accelerations. Not gazuyte hard and long. Otherwise, the wheels quickly bury it and the car will sit on the belly.

2. Try to push

Ask for help from passengers or passers-by. To begin, let it simply click on the hood or trunk when you try to leave. This further load the drive axle and improves traction wheels. If does not work, let him push the direction of travel, helping to get cars.

3. merge vraskachku

Manual Transmission

On the manual transmission is the surest way to go - move vraskachku to use the moment of inertia and compacted snow rut. To do this, align the wheels include a reverse gear and touches gently working the gas pedal.

When the car moves away, stop on the gas and let it fall back. Again trontes smoothly. Go up until the wheels begin to slip, but do not let it.

The main thing - to feel the pulses of the motion and act as a pendulum. Repeating this simple maneuver, you gradually utrambuete snow and make its track, will be able to get out.

If the acceleration to overcome the snowy hill is not enough, then, having left back, turn on the first gear and move forward. So you increase the amplitude and the rolled pad, which will be able to accelerate and gain the necessary momentum.

Automatic transmission

on the machine use the method of the buildup is not fully released: rapid and frequent changeover R - N - D may damage the transmission.

Therefore turn or reverse drive mode (depending on the direction of motion) and try to move smoothly. Once budge, release the accelerator pedal and wait until the machine set back.

Then again touch and rolled back until you have selected.

General tips

• If the car is equipped with four-wheel drive and differential lock, be sure to include them.
• If you have assistants, they should push while moving in one direction and then the other, increasing the moment of inertia.
• you can try to include the second instead of first gear. This will help to reduce the torque on wheels and reduce the chance of slipping.
• You can also gently press the brake pedal to load the slipping wheels and prevent it from blocking.

4. Dig snow

When a lot of snow and it is wet, the buildup does not always help. In this case, you must free the wheels and the area around them. For this come in handy shovel, which in the winter it is desirable to carry in the trunk.

If there is no spades, proceed feet, stick, cardboard and other materials at hand. Your goal - to remove the snow from under the wheels and clear the track for them.

Be sure to check if the exhaust pipe is clogged with snow. In the best case, the engine will stall, and at worst - gases may get into the interior.

Sometimes in deep snow machine jams due to the fact that sits on the belly, and the wheels lose grip, literally spinning in the air. The problem is solved clearing snow at the bottom.

If there is nothing to clean, you can jump on the door sills to compacted snow and lower the car. Another option - to raise the car on jack and sharply lower.

5. Enclose something under the wheels

If you can not go after the clearing of snow, so the wheels do not have enough traction. To ensure that it is better to use a special traction belt. But if they do not, you can use any other available means. Place under the drive wheels jacket, twigs, rubble - all that is found in the trunk or around the machine.

Underlay mats, as recommended by some, it is necessary only in the case if they textile. Rubber fly from the wheel, once press the gas.

By the way, be careful. All that will be under the wheels, may fly out from under them when the machine will begin to move from the spot.

6. Flat tire

This will help to increase the contact area with the surface and, as a result, the clutch wheel. Unscrew the cap of the spool and press the rod valve keys or other small object.

Flat tires reduce ground clearance. If a lot of snow, it just hurt: the car should sit on the belly.

Bring up to a pressure of about 1 atm. Without pressure gauge to determine the half-mast on the bus can be visually small oblateness.

Do not overdo it, and that the weight of the empty car tires can inadvertently razbortirovatsya from disks. Also, do not get involved much, if not at hand compressor or pump swap.

7. Construct traction chain

Another effective way to increase grip. If these chains in the trunk was not there, try the home-made from scrap materials. Take the rope or tow rope and wrap them on the drive wheels in the manner of chains. The main thing - to fix them well, so they do not unwound or damage the brakes and suspension parts.

even on summer tires such improvised circuits can be almost guaranteed to leave any snow. Due to increasing friction with the surface significantly improve patency. But it is necessary to be careful with the gas pedal, because with such wheels increases and the risk to dig deeper.

8. Lift car jack

If you get nothing out of the fact that the car sits too deep, you can try to raise its jack. To do this, check the area under the jack and find some kind of slate, stone or other lining made of hard material, the tool is not left in the snow or the ground.

Next alternately lift the car on each side and fill the hole with something, formed under the wheels of the drive axle. Suitable gravel, sticks, branches and any solid objects. After that, the wheels will be bogged down on the surface and the chances to get out of snow captivity will increase significantly.

9. Ask the car pull rope

Do not hesitate to ask for help when you go alone does not work. If the place is not deserted, and the hand is the cable, there are certainly willing to help.

For Unplugging from snowdrifts suitable not any rope. Conventional tape slings are often not withstand the load and tear. Steel cables is, on the contrary, too strong and can easily pull out the towing eye or deform a body.

Even for small runabouts better to use special dynamic or, as they are called, snatch slingsThat elongate tensile and compensate sharp jolts.

Check the reliability of the cable attachment to the towing loops and be sure to throw him a jacket, any bag or purse that in the event of an interruption in the cable did not hit one of the cars.

Mired in the machine, remove the wheel straight for drag reduction. Later, when the budge, the wheel can turn in the right direction. When removing help your engine, but not gazuyte hard not to dig. It is better to act as if stir.

On the towing car it should include a lower gear and all available locks, first trying to move in the interference.

If the snow is deep and the car stuck fast, can not do without jerks. Then pulls out to be a little dispersed, and stop acting as an anchor. Dynamic rope stretched himself will move jammed the car off the ground. Maybe not on the first try, but in the end should turn out.

In order not to damage the car on standing next to a tree or fence, form of snow compacted rut that will keep it from turning, and sliding.

10. call assistance

If all else fails, call for help. Call your friends, write a post to social networks or leave a mark on the map. Get back on the road and ask for help truck drivers. If there are any locality - go there.

In really tough situations when were in the wilderness, and wait for assistance from anyone, please contact the emergency services and call rescue workers on a single number 112.

Do not overestimate your capabilities: carelessness can cost lives.

Bonus. How not to get stuck in the snow

1. do not neglect winter tiresEven if rarely went out of town and you have all-wheel drive car. As a rule, all the troubles happen because of bad tires.
2. Always carry any with a shovel. At least compact folding, but rather a full-length with a cut to the required length of the handle. You can replace it with a piece of plywood, which will not take place in the trunk.
3. Go down through the gears as soon as you feel that you start to tie on the snow-covered stretch of road. And do not stop and then immediately stuck.
4. Avoid sudden acceleration and braking. Keep constant low engine speed from 1500 to 2000.
5. Work driving cautiously but confidently. Turn smoothly, and when driving on the track, hold the steering wheel so as not to fly off with it in the snow-covered road.
6. Park close to the roadway, but not directly on it. So will have to be cleaned less snow in the morning and not be a risk to be in the snow by a snow plow.
7. Leaving the car on a snowy place, be sure to go a few times back and forth to ram itself for the track and later leave without problems.