Brow of hill
When driving up an uphill gradient, slightly reduce pressure on the accelerator immediately before reaching the brow of the hill. Use the vehicle's own impetus to drive over the top of the hill.
This style of driving prevents:
- the vehicle from lifting off the ground on the
brow of a hill
- the vehicle from traveling too quickly down
the other side
See also:
Vehicle tool kit
The vehicle tool kit can be found in the
stowage well under the trunk floor/cargo
compartment floor. Depending on the vehicle
equipment, the vehicle tool kit is on the lefthand
side or the rig ...
Tire tread
WARNING
Although the applicable federal motor vehicle safety laws consider a tire to
be worn when the tread wear indicators (TWI) become visible at approximately 1/16
in (1.6 mm), we recomme ...
Road-simulation test rig: an ordeal for the chassis
The road-simulation test rigs are just as punishing as the body testing
facility. Applying identical load spectra over the same distance, the test
engineers torture the M-Class chassis in all of i ...