Your Worst Experience In Snow
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Not Sure If There Is Already A Thread On This Kind Of Thing But As Its Appropriate I Thought Id Start One And See How We Get On 
Ill Start Off With My Only One. It Was Mildly Terriying And It Would Be Kind Of Hard To Explain To The Now Fiancee If All Went Tits Up
On January 31st This Year There Was Really Bad Snow Drifts Just Before The Newbourgh Turn Off After The Cok And Bull On The A90. Id Just Got Engaged Half An Hour Ago and Now Driving Home In The Old Clio, The Wheels Went From Under Me At 35 And Im Thinking FUUCK! Head On With A Snowplow!! Bugger Wasne Even Gritting!!! Luckily I Managed To Swerve About 10 Feet Away From Him.
Im Now Expecting A Reply Entitled "Head On With A t
t In A Clio This Year!"
Over To You PH
Swifty
Ill Start Off With My Only One. It Was Mildly Terriying And It Would Be Kind Of Hard To Explain To The Now Fiancee If All Went Tits Up
On January 31st This Year There Was Really Bad Snow Drifts Just Before The Newbourgh Turn Off After The Cok And Bull On The A90. Id Just Got Engaged Half An Hour Ago and Now Driving Home In The Old Clio, The Wheels Went From Under Me At 35 And Im Thinking FUUCK! Head On With A Snowplow!! Bugger Wasne Even Gritting!!! Luckily I Managed To Swerve About 10 Feet Away From Him.
Im Now Expecting A Reply Entitled "Head On With A t
t In A Clio This Year!"Over To You PH
Swifty
Never really had a bad moment in the snow, more so other peoples bad moments when they nearly hit me. Although I did get stuck on a tiny hill that leads in to my work car park the other day,
...i ended up horizontal across the road between two walls
(to be fair it was pretty fecking icy)
...i ended up horizontal across the road between two walls
(to be fair it was pretty fecking icy)A few years ago being the pro rally driver I was, dabbed the handbrake and gave a small flick on the steering wheel in the snow .. Went sideways down the country road on a very light bend at about 40-50.. But the slide was pretty much locked in place... I think my heart stopped as I suddenly saw the possiblity of not countering the slide in time and hitting a very randomly placed lampost. Managed to recover very smoothly and my heart jumped back into life at about 200bpm
inb4 ststorm
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tstormEdited by gareth.e on Saturday 27th November 12:30
Last year
Coming over the other side of a bridge (over the M40)
Traffic at the bottom, 50yds away.
Travelling at 15mph........press the brakes.......
NO GRIP!!!!
Sliding down towards the traffic......this ain't looking too good!
Manage to get the car sideways and the front wheels up onto the verge....
Wheels grip the grassy verge....and I stop.....
2yds from the back of the car in front!
Not a nice experience
Coming over the other side of a bridge (over the M40)
Traffic at the bottom, 50yds away.
Travelling at 15mph........press the brakes.......
NO GRIP!!!!
Sliding down towards the traffic......this ain't looking too good!
Manage to get the car sideways and the front wheels up onto the verge....
Wheels grip the grassy verge....and I stop.....
2yds from the back of the car in front!
Not a nice experience
gareth.e said:
Went sideways down the country road on a very light bend at about 40-50.. But the slide was pretty much locked in place... I think my heart stopped as I suddenly saw the possiblity of not countering the slide in time and hitting a very randomly placed lampost. Managed to recover it and my heart jumped back into life at about 200bpm
Not really had any. One good thing about east anglia is its really flat, so not many hills to complicate things. Did get stuck in a track off the main road, but the same thing has happened (in the same place!) due to mud so snow didnt make things any worse. I hear in Siberia the 'roads' are actually worse in summer due to the mud than the snow in winter.
Personally i find a thick fog or torrential rain worse than snow.
Personally i find a thick fog or torrential rain worse than snow.
Coming down a hill (steep) which joined onto a junction with the tall kerbs on the other side (which I would've hit), gently pressed brakes quite far ahead along with engine braking, absolutely nothing (result of 283mm brakes on a 106 tin can) started sliding so thought fk it and smashed one of the wheels into the kerb which stopped me in the end. st me up quite a bit!
k it and smashed one of the wheels into the kerb which stopped me in the end. st me up quite a bit!back in the eighties i was used to driving rwd cars / vans, or not. as it was very hilly where i lived so any serious snowfall meant walking.
bought a cheap fiat 127 for my sister to learn on. this was the first fwd car i ever drove in the snow. skinny tyres and fwd and low weight, it would go anywhere.
so i am driving down a mild slope, the tyre treads must have filled with snow and i was probably driving too fast. the car skids across the road , does a 180 and bounces off the kerb and ended up on the correct side of the road facing the right way. lesson learnt
bought a cheap fiat 127 for my sister to learn on. this was the first fwd car i ever drove in the snow. skinny tyres and fwd and low weight, it would go anywhere.
so i am driving down a mild slope, the tyre treads must have filled with snow and i was probably driving too fast. the car skids across the road , does a 180 and bounces off the kerb and ended up on the correct side of the road facing the right way. lesson learnt
When I had only been driving a few months I had my little saxo (5 years ago now), I thought I was invincible and used to go screaming down a single track rat run at night hand brake turning round the bends and all sorts, I did the exact same thing in the snow and somehow did not slide off, I then thought I was a driving god.
Then I came back into my road and thought it was a good idea to spin my wheels, car just slid and slid and slid straight into a parked car.
Thankfully by the time I hit the car I was doing literally 2 mph so there was no damage whatsoever!
Then I came back into my road and thought it was a good idea to spin my wheels, car just slid and slid and slid straight into a parked car.
Thankfully by the time I hit the car I was doing literally 2 mph so there was no damage whatsoever!
Have done quite a lot of driving in snow with our familiy living up a hill in scotland.
Remember once bringing 2 cars from Edinburgh to London (2 drivers) around new year and the snow was really heavy in scotland but ok further south. We decided to give it a go and once past Carlisle on the M6 and heading into the lake district there was less and less traffic until, it felt like it was just us on the road.
All three lanes covered in fresh snow, dark, and snowing moderately but windy, very little visibility and at one point the only way to guide us forward was looking out the side windows to judge where the edge was. Was terrified it would get worse and we'd get stuck ubut luckily it was ok once we got back down to lower level. The whole trip took ten hours instead of 6.
The only time I've been properly stuck was on 31st Dec on a hill road in the middle of nowhere (on way home). I really thought I was in trouble, even though I had a shovel I couldnt get it out and was on my own.
The snow had been blown across the fields by a gale force wind so it was piling up against the wall (out of sight) but as I came round a bend there was an open gated entrance and suddenly I was in a 3 foot deep snow drift across the road (everywhere else it was only a few inches deep).
The only option was walking back to the nearest village in the blizzard (about 3 miles) when a load of hill walkers appeared from nowhere and helped me dig/push it out! What a bit of luck that was.
The moral of the story is dont go out unless you have to, and take a shovel, warm clothes, hot drink etc.
Remember once bringing 2 cars from Edinburgh to London (2 drivers) around new year and the snow was really heavy in scotland but ok further south. We decided to give it a go and once past Carlisle on the M6 and heading into the lake district there was less and less traffic until, it felt like it was just us on the road.
All three lanes covered in fresh snow, dark, and snowing moderately but windy, very little visibility and at one point the only way to guide us forward was looking out the side windows to judge where the edge was. Was terrified it would get worse and we'd get stuck ubut luckily it was ok once we got back down to lower level. The whole trip took ten hours instead of 6.
The only time I've been properly stuck was on 31st Dec on a hill road in the middle of nowhere (on way home). I really thought I was in trouble, even though I had a shovel I couldnt get it out and was on my own.
The snow had been blown across the fields by a gale force wind so it was piling up against the wall (out of sight) but as I came round a bend there was an open gated entrance and suddenly I was in a 3 foot deep snow drift across the road (everywhere else it was only a few inches deep).
The only option was walking back to the nearest village in the blizzard (about 3 miles) when a load of hill walkers appeared from nowhere and helped me dig/push it out! What a bit of luck that was.
The moral of the story is dont go out unless you have to, and take a shovel, warm clothes, hot drink etc.
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