Driving your vehicle
Parking on hills
5. Start the vehicle, apply the brakes, Driving the vehicle after it has
shift to neutral, release the park- been parked on a hill
Generally, if you have a trailer attached
to your vehicle, you should not park
your vehicle on a hill.
ing brake and slowly release the
1. With the gear shift lever in P
brakes until the trailer chocks
(Park), apply the brakes and hold
absorb the load.
Reapply the brakes and parking
brakes.
the brake pedal down while per-
forming the following:
6.
However, if you ever have to park your
trailer on a hill, here's how to do it:
•
•
Start your engine;
Shift into gear; and
7.
8.
Move the shift lever to P (Park).
1.
Pull the vehicle into the parking
area.
Shut off the vehicle and release
the vehicle brakes but leave the
parking brake set.
• Release the parking brake.
2. Slowly remove your foot from the
brake pedal.
Turn the steering wheel in the
direction of the curb (right if head-
ed down hill, left if headed up hill).
3.
Drive slowly until the trailer is clear
of the chocks.
WARNING
2.
3.
Shift the vehicle to P (Park).
Set the parking brake and shut off
the vehicle.
4. Stop and have someone pick up
and store the chocks.
•
Do not get out of the vehicle
without the parking brake
firmly set. If you have left the
engine running, the vehicle
can move suddenly. You and
others could be seriously or
fatally injured.
4.
Place wheel chocks under the
trailer wheels on the down hill side
of the wheels.
•
Do not apply the accelerator
pedal to hold the vehicle on
an uphill.
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