1997 Buick Park Avenue Owner's Manual - Page 215

Driving on Snow or Ice Most of the time, those places where your tires meet the road probably have good traction. However, if there is snow or ice between your tires and the road,you can have a very slippery situation. You'll have a lot traction or "grip"and will need to be less very careful. What's the worst time for this? "Wet ice." Very cold snow or ice can be slick and hard to drive on. But wet ice can beeven more trouble because may offer the it least traction of all. You can getwet ice when it's about freezing (32°F; 0"C) and freezing rain begins to fall. Try to avoid driving onwet ice until salt and sand crews can get there. Whatever the condition-- smooth ice, packed, blowing or loosesnow -- drive with caution. If you have traction control, keep the systemon. It will improve your ability to accelerate when driving on a slippery road. Even though your vehiclehas a traction control system,you'll want to slow down and adjust your driving to the road conditions. See "Traction Control System'' in the Index. .-- - ...I ... _ ...< I ... ...- '.rJ>'.; I If you don't have thetraction control system,accelerate gently. Try not break the fragiletraction. If you to accelerate too fast, the drive wheels will spin and polish the surface under the tires even more. 4-27