owners manual KIA Sorento

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BL-ENG (CAN)-5.qxd 7/28/05 5:56 PM Page 21 DRIVING TIPS WARNING Approaching a hill • Is there a straight path up or down the hill so you won’t have to make - Driving on Hills When you approach a hill, you need to decide if it’s one of those hills that’sturning maneuvers? Many hills are simply too steep • Are there obstructions on the hill just too steep to climb, descend, or for any vehicle. If you drive up that can block your path (boulders, them, you will stall. If you drivecross. Steepness can be difficult to judge. On a very small hill, for exam-trees, logs or ruts)? down them, you can’t control • What’s beyond the hill? Is there a ple, there may be a smooth, constant your speed. In either case, you cliff, an embankment, a drop-off, or incline with only a small change in could flip over. If you drive a fence? Get out of the vehicle and across them, you will roll over.elevation where you can easily see walk the hill if you are unsure. It’s all the way to the top. On a large hill, You could be seriously or fatal- the smart way to find out. ly injured. If you have any doubtthe incline may get steeper as you about the steepness,don’t drivenear the top, but you may not see this• Is the hill simply too rough? Steep because the crest of the hill is hiddenhills often have ruts, gullies, up or down the hill, even if it by bushes, grass, or shrubs. troughs, and exposed rocks means that you have to turn because they are more susceptible Here are some other things to con- around and find another route. to the effects of erosion. sider as you approach a hill: Re-tracking is a normal part of • How have weather conditions safe off-roading. • Is there a constant incline, or does affected the terrain? Is there likely the hill get sharply steeper in places? to be mud, snow or ice on the hill? • What time of day is it? Are temper- • Is there good traction on the hill- atures dropping so that wet sur- side, or will the surface cause tire slipping? faces will start to freeze? 5-21

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