Nissan Juke owners manual page 330

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Black plate (330,1) FLAT TOWING UNIFORMTIRE QUALITYGRADING Towing your vehicle with all four wheels on thesection of this manual.DOT (Department Of Transportation) Quality ground is sometimes called flat towing. This Grades: All passenger car tires must conform to method is sometimes used when towing aCONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANS-federal safety requirements in addition to these vehicle behind a recreational vehicle, such as aMISSION (CVT)grades. motor home. Quality grades can be found where applicable All-Wheel Drive (AWD) models: on the tire sidewall between tread shoulder and CAUTION Do not tow an AWD vehicle with any of themaximum section width. For example: . Failure to follow these guidelineswheels on the ground. Treadwear 200 Traction AA Temperature A can result in severe transmissionTwo-Wheel Drive (2WD) models:TREADWEAR damage. To tow a vehicle equipped with a Continuously . Whenever flat towing your vehicle,Variable Transmission (CVT), an appropriateThe treadwear grade is a comparative rating always tow forward, never back-vehicle dolly MUST be placed under the towedbased on the wear rate of the tire when tested ward. vehicle’s driving wheels. Always follow the dollyunder controlled conditions on a specified manufacturer’s recommendations when usinggovernment test course. For example, a tire . DONOTtowanyContinuously Vari-their product. graded 150 would wear one and one-half able Transmission (CVT) vehicle (1 1/2) times as well on the government course with all four wheels on the groundMANUALTRANSMISSION as a tire graded 100. The relative performance (flat towing). Doing so WILL DA- of tires depends upon actual conditions of their MAGE internal transmission parts.Always tow with the manual transmission inuse, however, and may depart significantly from due to lack of transmission lubrica-Neutral. the norm due to variations in driving habits, tion. . Your vehicle speed should never exceed 70service practices and differences in road char- MPH (112 km/h) when flat towing youracteristics and climate. . DO NOT tow an All-Wheel Drivevehicle. (AWD) vehicle with any of the TRACTION AA, A, B AND C wheels on the ground. Doing so.After towing 500 miles (805 km), start andThe traction grades, from highest to lowest, are may cause serious and expensiveidle the engine with the transmission inAA, A, B and C. Those grades represent the damage to the powertrain. Neutral for two minutes. Failure to idle thetire’s ability to stop on wet pavement as . For emergency towing proceduresengine after every 500 miles (805 km) ofmeasured under controlled conditions on spe- refer to “TOWING YOUR VEHICLE”towing may cause damage to the transmis-cified government test surfaces of asphalt and sion’s internal parts. concrete. A tire marked C may have poor in the “6. In case of emergency” traction performance. 9-16 Technical and consumer information Model "F15-D" EDITED: 2010/ 6/ 24

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