Rough old night on the roads!
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Well my 20 mile commute back from West Acton to Hertfordshire was a nightmare last night. Not good Monaro weather. Trying to get into Potters Bar was absolutely impossible. Abandoned cars, crashed cars, stuck cars. I ended up going in on the completely unsalted back roads and frankly I'm amazed the rear wheel drive Ro made it. Much slipping and wheel spinning, but she got me home, which was more than my wife's Seat ibiza managed. She had to abandon it 5 miles away and walk.
When's this global warming happening?
When's this global warming happening?
glad to here you got home safe and with the Ro. i havent dare to take mine out yet. but i know the extenet of last nights weather as im not to far from you.
global warming will come when people by more V8's and gordon brown lets us drive them
global warming will come when people by more V8's and gordon brown lets us drive them
Edited by the_ferret82 on Tuesday 22 December 09:42
the_ferret82 said:
glad to here you got home safe and with the Ro. i havent dare to take mine out yet. but i know the extenet of last nights weather as im not to far from you.
global working will come when people by more V8's and gordon brown lets us drive them
Us V8 owners are in a minority crusade to get this so called global warming effect rolling, well done all and Fglobal working will come when people by more V8's and gordon brown lets us drive them
K the tree huggers, come to think of it, i need go chop some trees for the log burner 
essexhsv said:
Your lucky you even got home, My mate broke down at 6pm lastnight somewhere near London and didnt get picked up by the AA until 7am this morning after sleep all night in his car.by the time he got indoors it was 8.45am today How bads that....
i love my car ...but, that would do my head in 
I left work in Stoke Mandeville at 6ish, got about 5 miles on icy ungritted A41 and moved about a mile over the next 6 1/2 hours, grrr.
Eventually getting home (40 mile journey) at 1:30 am.
An unhealthy portion of my journey was crab like across two lanes; one way then the other. The VXR8 did much better than I expected (not that I was expecting much). Only needed pushing once :-)
Cars, lorries and buses littered the roads on the way home, the hill down into Hemel Hempstead was like a scene from a war film [COD; snow in Herts!]
I found that tickover and manual selection of 3rd gear seemed to give 'best' traction.
I won't have to worry next year as this job finishes at Christmas Eve - I can't see that I'll be back there any more this week.
Steve
Eventually getting home (40 mile journey) at 1:30 am.
An unhealthy portion of my journey was crab like across two lanes; one way then the other. The VXR8 did much better than I expected (not that I was expecting much). Only needed pushing once :-)
Cars, lorries and buses littered the roads on the way home, the hill down into Hemel Hempstead was like a scene from a war film [COD; snow in Herts!]
I found that tickover and manual selection of 3rd gear seemed to give 'best' traction.
I won't have to worry next year as this job finishes at Christmas Eve - I can't see that I'll be back there any more this week.
Steve
2blackhats said:
Well my 20 mile commute back from West Acton to Hertfordshire was a nightmare last night. Not good Monaro weather. Trying to get into Potters Bar was absolutely impossible. Abandoned cars, crashed cars, stuck cars. I ended up going in on the completely unsalted back roads and frankly I'm amazed the rear wheel drive Ro made it. Much slipping and wheel spinning, but she got me home, which was more than my wife's Seat ibiza managed. She had to abandon it 5 miles away and walk.
When's this global warming happening?
When's this global warming happening?
It's all S800VXR's fault - he's not been facilitating as much as he used to recently.
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