Tips For Driving In Winter Snowstorms | Hagerstown, MD

Feb 1, 2024

Calling all Mitsubishi drivers! Your friends here at Younger Mitsubishi are back for another week of helpful driving tips and tricks for you! This week, we want to offer up some helpful tips for driving in the winter snow. If you’ve checked outside…it seems a little fitting! Now, we want to emphasize that we urge guests to avoid travel during snowstorms, however, we understand that isn’t always possible. So, if you find yourself having to drive a snowstorm, and you’re stressed out, don’t be! Below you can find helpful tips that can help you have better control on the road. And most importantly, we want to urge you to drive slow!! If you were planning on stopping in for a test drive, to shop, or service your Mitsubishi, don’t sweat it! Head over to our website to shop our entire inventory, narrow down your search, and schedule a test drive all from home! You can even schedule your service appointment for your next available time!

Tips For Driving In The Snow:

Accelerate and decelerate slowly. Applying the gas slowly to accelerate is the best method for gaining traction and avoiding skids.
Drive slowly. Everything takes longer on snow-covered roads. Accelerating, stopping, turning – nothing happens as quickly as on dry pavement. Give yourself time to maneuver by driving slowly.
The normal dry pavement following distance of three to four seconds should be increased to eight to ten seconds

Know your brakes. Whether you have antilock brakes or not, the best way to stop is threshold braking.
Don’t stop if you can avoid it.
Don’t stop going up a hill. There’s nothing worse than trying to get moving up a hill on an icy road.
Make it know what kind of driving assistance you have (AAA, Roadside Assistance, etc.)