How to Get car moving When It's Stuck in The Snow

Has ever your car been stuck in the sno, It sucks.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• shovel

1. 

   First try to drive back and forth, forward and reverse. If it doesn't work after a few tries try to get someone to help you. If someone comes to help have someone drive and have the stronger two people push the car.

2. 

   If this does'nt work put the car in neutral and have everyone push the car. If the car starts moving after you all push hop in the car and put it in drive. Drive slowly so that you can get some good trackion and not spin out. If the car pushing technique does'nt work find/use a shovel to dig around the tires. Shovel the snow away from the area of the tires untill you see cement or whatever the car is driving on.

3. 

   If you don't have a shovel use anything that you can to get as much snow as you can away from the tires and make a foot or two of space without snow or ice near each tire. After you do that you should be able to get enough traction to drive over the snow. Keep the momentum going until you get to a main street if you can, because if you get stuck again you'll have to do everything all over again.

Tips & Warnings

• don't use water, it will freeze
• wear a coat
• Be carefull

[krm479]

on 1/30/2009 Small typo in step number two...it should read "doesn't" not does'nt.

[teachermom]

on 1/29/2009 Thanks for the tips!!

[Wasatch]

on 12/29/2008 With an automatic people often forget about low gear. Put it at 1 low until you are out of the rut.

[Rockney]

on 12/27/2008 Great ideas! These techniques work all the time! 5*!

[Kallicat]

on 12/27/2008 With all the snow here, good ideas. I would add if you have sand, use it. And, a new one for me that we just tried, put down some spare wood, sheetrock or shingles in front of the tires to help get traction. You'd be amazed at how it works.