Bloddy road gritters

[skyrover]

Galveston said:

Road temperatures (where ice forms) can be significantly different to the air temperature.

Especially over bridges or in shadow's

[SuperchargedVR6]

Swanny87 said:

TameRacingDriver said:

I often hear that in places like Japan they don't use salt so cars over there don't really have the rust issues they have here, so what do they use and why don't we use it?

That's actually a myth. While true in some parts of Japan, in others they do salt the roads.

Edit: Just looked this up again, I think they use some kind of non salt based chemical. Why the hell aren't we copying the Japanese?

Edited by Swanny87 on Friday 12th February 11:11

Because Britain. The same country that considers throwing chippings on the floor to be an acceptable road surface. To change the gritting process would cost (tax payers) billions in red tape.

With the constant HGV traffic on major roads, why not strap a tank of this Japanese solution to them all and they can do 2 roles in one? I should be paid a fortune for that amazing money saving idea.

As for the grit, the front of my car is a mess anyway so I'm not that bothered. I might chuck a few bags of B&Q pea shingle out the back after I've overtaken them though, to return the favour

Edited by SuperchargedVR6 on Friday 12th February 15:40

[Riley Blue]

MDMA . said:

Patrick Bateman said:

Riley Blue said:

Quite right:
At 9:14 this morning the OP wrote:
"About the salt, it wasn't even cold or frosty last night. Why do they even grit when the roads are wet and no forecast for cold weather. Council muppets again. Do they not check to see what temperature it will be. They will be moaning when we do have a cold snap that they have ran out of salt. Egits."

Did he?

It was me who said the above, not the OP. But last night lows were3 degrees ( in my area ) so why were the gritters out in force ? Perrier does not seem to freeze in the fridge at this temperature so why would the roads freeze If I knew the forecast was not that cold, why didn't the council ? Do they get different info from the rest of the population ? They even have their own local weather stations to check. Farcical again, like the rest of their departments.

Apologies to both, it wasn't the OP.

[Jim AK]

MDMA . said:

it was warm last night. no need for gritters.

I left my house about 10pm last night & my car was very iced yet when I went to it at 8 am today the ice had gone, so obviously it warmed during the night.

All said roads need grit if it's icy, as it was last night, temp obviously rose over night but people driving earlier could have faced ice so I guess that's why they gritted.

[wibblebrain]

Riley Blue said:

Were the gritters driving along lane one of the M6 and M62? If so, it ought to have been possible to overtake them whilst also passing a vehicle in lane two to shield from their output.

They drive down the middle lane to grit the 3 lanes as evenly as they can.

I did contemplate going onto the hard shoulder to overtake, so as to put as much disctance between me and the gritter, but concluded that wasn't likely to be acceptable practice..................

[wibblebrain]

Jim AK said:

wibblebrain said:

So drove up to Liverpool last night in my new (to me) car.

Having washed it recently I could only spot one stone chip on the front and that had been touched in almost invisibly.

But the road gritters were out in force on the M6 and M62 meaning I had to drive past 3 of the buggers.

Front bumper is now riddled with stone chips revealing the white primer underneath! bds!!

What can you do when faced with having to drive past these sodding things? Any way to minimise the damage?

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^^This^^

So much more inconvenient than a write off because they left the road untreated.

Someone's brain really is 'Wibbled'!!

Is it really so fking hard for people to understand that I'm not complaining about the fact that they are salting the roads, just seeking to see if anyone had some CONSTRUCTIVE suggestions for how to minimise any damage.

Really some of you fkers just seem to want to cause offence for the sake of it. Or perhaps you just don't have the intelligence to properly understand the original post.

[Galveston]

MDMA . said:

Galveston said:

Road temperatures (where ice forms) can be significantly different to the air temperature.

it was warm last night. no need for gritters.

If the air temperature is +3C it's entirely feasible that the road temperature is below freezing.

[GTIAlex]

wibblebrain said:

Is it really so fking hard for people to understand that I'm not complaining about the fact that they are salting the roads, just seeking to see if anyone had some CONSTRUCTIVE suggestions for how to minimise any damage.

Really some of you fkers just seem to want to cause offence for the sake of it. Or perhaps you just don't have the intelligence to properly understand the original post.

100% this.

Its the pathetic, sad, morons like have posted in here after you asked a simple plea for advice that have ruined pistonheads for me.