Needs Help, Stuck Vehicle
 

I have a '11 Sports Pkg. Right now it is stuck on a low hill pointing down, the hill is not that steep but the grass/mud being soft doesn't help. I CANNOT go forward much more and I need to back the car up (uphill) and the tires keep spinning, VDC off doesn't help.

I looked in the OM and on page 6-20, says do not strap anything into that little notch under the bottom left chassis. And it doesn't tell me where I could hook on the back to pull.

Does anyone know where would be a safe place I could strap and pull the car up?

Don't know the answer but you might want to call a tow truck. What was the cause, an accident?

Or on a date trying to get lucky off the beaten path?:driving:

just a suggestion, but your tow hook in the trunk might come in handy for someone to pull on that and help your Z out of the mud...fyi, it screws into the front of your Z

:iagree: but you will have to remove the black plastic.

It sounds like he can't hook up to the front tow hook point and needs to back it out... Maybe put some wood under the rear tires to get traction?

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Put wooden planks underneath the tires and make sure nothing/nobody is behind it because if you floor it, the planks will shoot straight back

Lower your rear tire pressure to about 20psi, sack cloth, sand, gravel. Then back out slowly using handbrake to help you modulate. This can also help the limitted slip diff transfer the torque a bit.

When you get out drive safely / slowly to the gas station and air up your tires to regular pressure.

Some people use tire chains but, I'd stay away from that unles the above doesn't work. You can throw a chain and cause body damage. Trucks do it all the time. However, they don't have wide tires with small wheel clearances.

Good luck !!!

He's backing out, so the wood would shoot forward...

Something like this?

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Saw something like this at the local WalMart for like $20. More expensive than boards, but perhaps less likely to shoot out from under the tires?

Summer tires on wet grass are horrible, if you want to be driving the Z in the winter time you really need a good set of snow tires.

Were you able to get the car unstuck? Despite what the manual says I would consider using the rear hook in certain cases, to carefully winch across flat ground or a very light slope perhaps. In these cases you are only exerting maybe 200 lbs of pressure. Using it to pull up a steep hill or winch onto a flat bed would be a no.

OK, we need an update in the situation the OP posted. ;)