How To Get Your Car Out Of The Snow If You Are Stucked

1 Ride the brakes!

This is something you don't want to do normally. Riding the brakes will just make your engine work harder to get you the same distance AND wear them out. When you push the accelerator, only one wheel pushes the car forward - the wheel with the least resistance. In our case, this is the wheel spinning on the snow. If you find yourself stuck on snow or ice with your wheel spinning, try holding down the brakes slightly. This will restrict the spinning wheel and transfer the power to the other. By keeping slight pressure on the brakes you can make both wheels work to pull you out of the snow.

2 Don't rock the car!

Sometimes people are tempted to shift from forward to reverse quickly when stuck in snow. This rocks the car as far forward and backward as it will go in the snow 'trench' it's caught in. Rocking the car is a recipe for automatic transmission failure. The transmission is overloaded when it is asked to quickly transfer its momentum the other way. If rocking the car results in an automatic transmission rebuild, it could easily a cost you one thousand dollars.

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