Nissan 370Z owners manual page 413

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Black plate (411,1) FLAT TOWING UNIFORMTIRE QUALITYGRADING GUID-81BCA095-E7D3-4CE2-A684-123FD1E1D09A GUID-847767A6-AC43-4068-BDF0-695D11D7EE17 Towing your vehicle with all four wheels on the AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION DOT (Department Of Transportation) Quality ground is sometimes called flat towing. This GUID-21032A3C-932E-4072-9667-FA2CAD191E8CGrades: All passenger car tires must conform to method is sometimes used when towing a To tow a vehicle equipped with an automatic federal safety requirements in addition to these vehicle behind a recreational vehicle, such as a transmission, an appropriate vehicle dolly MUST grades. motor home. be placed under the towed vehicle’s drive wheels. Always follow the dolly manufacturer’s Quality grades can be found where applicable recommendations when using their product. on the tire sidewall between tread shoulder and CAUTION MANUALTRANSMISSION maximum section width. For example: GUID-8F862C4B-4E77-46AF-A267-BB3D3E9E681ATreadwear 200 Traction AA Temperature A . Failure to follow these guidelines . Always tow with the manual transmission in Neutral. TREADWEAR can result in severe transmission GUID-EBD3F3AF-74FA-4332-AA15-3B9E01A51FFF damage. . Your vehicle speed should never exceed 70 The treadwear grade is a comparative rating MPH (112 km/h) when flat towing your based on the wear rate of the tire when tested . Whenever flat towing your vehicle, vehicle. under controlled conditions on a specified always tow forward, never back- . After towing 500 miles, start and idle the government test course. For example, a tire ward. engine with the transmission in Neutral for graded 150 would wear one and one-half (1 . DO NOT tow any automatic trans- two minutes. Failure to idle the engine after 1/2) times as well on the government course as mission vehicle with all four wheels every 500 miles of towing may cause a tire graded 100. The relative performance of on the ground (flat towing). Doing damage to the transmission’s internal parts. tires depends upon actual conditions of their soWILLDAMAGEinternaltransmis- use, however, and may depart significantly from sion parts due to lack of transmis- the norm due to variations in driving habits, sion lubrication. service practices and differences in road char- . For emergency towing procedures acteristics and climate. refer to “Towing recommended by TRACTION AA, A, B AND C GUID-77FAD5AD-8EC3-4E81-978B-00D40AD98203 NISSAN (except for NISMO mod- The traction grades, from highest to lowest, are els)” (P.6-19) of this manual. AA, A, B and C. Those grades represent the tire’s ability to stop on wet pavement as measured under controlled conditions on spe- cified government test surfaces of asphalt and concrete. A tire marked C may have poor traction performance. Technical and consumer information 9-21 [ Edit: 2012/ 4/ 11Model: Z34-D ]

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