Crashed my car on an untreated road
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Symbolica said:
KaraK said:
I was thinking just yesterday about who would be the first to have a "Syndrome" moment during this current snow 
Who was that other bloke that spent ages castigating people for being s
t drivers, before launching his car off a humpback bridge? 
Having driven many cars for many years i cant help but chuckle at some of the comments on here,snow and ice are slippery and regardless of what tyres or car you run should be treated with respect ive seen far too many people this week trying to drive as normal and its asking for trouble. its as simple as that.
BILL PAYER said:
Having driven many cars for many years i cant help but chuckle at some of the comments on here,snow and ice are slippery and regardless of what tyres or car you run should be treated with respect ive seen far too many people this week trying to drive as normal and its asking for trouble. its as simple as that.
less than 5% of vehicles on UK roads are suitably equipped & with a sensible driver can drive round the rest of the muppetry perfectly safely. Unfortunatly the a lack of education means the muppets just assume these properly equipped drivers are lunatics. Notice how in many news pics on the telly, a lot of the cars stuffed into hedges are 4WDs ?
Ice IS slippy, no matter how grippy you think your vehicle is.
Best car for normal snow and slush is a good old-fashioned narrow-wheeled low-powered lightweight like a Moggy Thou'.
I always found Minis good too...back when snow was a bit more common, long as it wasn't too deep for those little wheels. Not much weight to push out either.
Ice IS slippy, no matter how grippy you think your vehicle is.
Best car for normal snow and slush is a good old-fashioned narrow-wheeled low-powered lightweight like a Moggy Thou'.
I always found Minis good too...back when snow was a bit more common, long as it wasn't too deep for those little wheels. Not much weight to push out either.
grahamw48 said:
Best car for normal snow and slush is a good old-fashioned narrow-wheeled low-powered lightweight like a Moggy Thou'.
I remember driving mine around in bad snow and finding it more or less unstoppable compared to modern cars (which themselves would be 20 years old now).cptsideways said:
BILL PAYER said:
Having driven many cars for many years i cant help but chuckle at some of the comments on here,snow and ice are slippery and regardless of what tyres or car you run should be treated with respect ive seen far too many people this week trying to drive as normal and its asking for trouble. its as simple as that.
less than 5% of vehicles on UK roads are suitably equipped & with a sensible driver can drive round the rest of the muppetry perfectly safely. Unfortunatly the a lack of education means the muppets just assume these properly equipped drivers are lunatics. Edited by BILL PAYER on Tuesday 21st December 04:44
Pigeon said:
grahamw48 said:
Best car for normal snow and slush is a good old-fashioned narrow-wheeled low-powered lightweight like a Moggy Thou'.
I remember driving mine around in bad snow and finding it more or less unstoppable compared to modern cars (which themselves would be 20 years old now).I remember driving my RWD GT6 with 155 tyres in snow as bad as we are seeing now and I never got stuck.
grahamw48 said:
Notice how in many news pics on the telly, a lot of the cars stuffed into hedges are 4WDs ?
Ice IS slippy, no matter how grippy you think your vehicle is.
Best car for normal snow and slush is a good old-fashioned narrow-wheeled low-powered lightweight like a Moggy Thou'.
I always found Minis good too...back when snow was a bit more common, long as it wasn't too deep for those little wheels. Not much weight to push out either.
I have been wondering what our old 500 would be like in the Snow, skinny tyres, engine over the driven wheels, light weight and not much power, probably good fun, trouble is it got put into hibernation at the end of October and I cant be arsed getting it out as its at the inlaws and that is more trouble then its worth.Ice IS slippy, no matter how grippy you think your vehicle is.
Best car for normal snow and slush is a good old-fashioned narrow-wheeled low-powered lightweight like a Moggy Thou'.
I always found Minis good too...back when snow was a bit more common, long as it wasn't too deep for those little wheels. Not much weight to push out either.
GuinnessMK said:
I wish I'd had my camera, but a few weeks back, I saw a Triumph Dolly Sprint blast up a snow covered hill that was "challenging" a mum in a disco. In the time it took me to walk up the hill, apart from the Dolly, the only other thing to go up was a fully kitted out 'fender.
Many years ago had a Sprint which I fitted 155 section M+S remounds to for the winter. Snow? What snow? 
Edited by matchmaker on Tuesday 21st December 12:57
Yep, wide wheels are great for summer or beach buggies, and the obese cars these days don't help matters either...like driving a blinkin road roller on snow.
All I can say is that I drove company cars and my own all over the Northeast from 1972 to the present day and never got stuck, and that's in hilly Yorkshire.
I did lock myself out of my car one night on the N.Yorks moors, in the middle of a blizzard, after going for a pee.
Keys were in and engine running.
Had to kick the quarter light in, but better than freezing to death.
All I can say is that I drove company cars and my own all over the Northeast from 1972 to the present day and never got stuck, and that's in hilly Yorkshire.
I did lock myself out of my car one night on the N.Yorks moors, in the middle of a blizzard, after going for a pee.
Keys were in and engine running.
Had to kick the quarter light in, but better than freezing to death.
Oddly enough the OP doesn't seem to have posted anything since having a fit of the angries at 10PS halfway down this thread:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
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http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Ouch!
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