Even I knew there was no way that Zed was going up that hill lolI'll come clean, I parked the car at the bottom of the drift just to take the photo
Snow on the way eek
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A few years ago we had a fair kelching of snow (might have been 2010?), anyway I left Lincoln a little early and set off home. Carholme Rd. was under about 3" of snow and getting deeper. When I got across the A57 roundabout some Knob head insisted on being only a few yards from my back bumper and as I was in my Z3 on staggered wide "snowshoes" it was easy to keep tapping the throttle to make the rear end step out. He/she eventually got the message that it wasn't too clever to be that close in snow.
Tony.
There's always one Tony. I love snow if I can not worry about having to go anywhere, having enough food in etc but with my job it's a nightmare. Trucks have all the systems possible to aid in bad conditions and they do absolutely nothing! Diff locks, lift up axles etc. The Long hill on the M20 is every truck drivers worst nightmare. I've know lads be stuck on it for 3 days waiting for it to thaw a bit so they can get enough traction to set off and take a run at it.
The biggest mistake people make..
They pull off in 1st gear...
Warm engine, 2nd gear and do not push the gas peddle to far down... Let the car do the work slowly.. Once had a very puzzled police officer look at me at the top of Hindhead hill.. 3" of snow in an hour on the A3 back from London.. I made it all the way up the hill past some very annoyed looking officials in a Police car... Oh dear.. Did we not learn how to drive in Hazzard conditions. I then spent the next two hours waiting for a snow plough as they would not let me continue. It was in my Opel Manta 2.0 GTE too... Swines.... Just because they got stuck along with a lot more.. At least I had a coffee in the garage whilst waiting.
Another old trick is to carry some old sacks.. Hessian are best .. Put them under the driving wheels if you get stuck.. Stops the snow giving way.
They pull off in 1st gear...
Warm engine, 2nd gear and do not push the gas peddle to far down... Let the car do the work slowly.. Once had a very puzzled police officer look at me at the top of Hindhead hill.. 3" of snow in an hour on the A3 back from London.. I made it all the way up the hill past some very annoyed looking officials in a Police car... Oh dear.. Did we not learn how to drive in Hazzard conditions. I then spent the next two hours waiting for a snow plough as they would not let me continue. It was in my Opel Manta 2.0 GTE too... Swines.... Just because they got stuck along with a lot more.. At least I had a coffee in the garage whilst waiting.
Another old trick is to carry some old sacks.. Hessian are best .. Put them under the driving wheels if you get stuck.. Stops the snow giving way.
I said low gear when it should have been higher earlier - I know what I meant. Doh.
Our road is on a gentle slope - it vey quickly turns to ice after snow. It's great fun watching cars revving their nuts off and slithering and sliding their way up and frequently coming down all wheels locked and hitting the kerb opposite.
Our road is on a gentle slope - it vey quickly turns to ice after snow. It's great fun watching cars revving their nuts off and slithering and sliding their way up and frequently coming down all wheels locked and hitting the kerb opposite.
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Hessian sacks are great, but difficult to find now, I have 2 to 3 bags of rock salt + shovel + spray on snow chains and winter tyres
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@Twin Turbo how does that stuff work then? (Winter Tyre Grip)
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These look briliant
You people wouldn't survive more than a couple of days over here!! lol hi.
Only the soft southerners!
We're much tougher from up't north!.
I remember driving across the pennines with 28 foot snow drifts at the side of the motorway. Before we set off a gang of us had to dig a channel 6 foot wide and over 100 yards long and 4 feet deep to reach the main road. Its not the snow that frequently closes our roads - its those who don't know how to drive in it.
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If I get stuck in the snow I would never live it down - hence why I am pre-pared. As I get so much stick for having winter tyres etc in my boot.
Worst car in the snow my Mondeo with 2.5 turbo engine and big fat wide tyres, traction control did nothing.
Best car BMW 530d traction control notices slip and if braking doesn't control it reduces engine power to a minimum. Pulled away on a compacted thawed refrozen hill.
Not that it would work at speed when the forces of nature take over.
Best car BMW 530d traction control notices slip and if braking doesn't control it reduces engine power to a minimum. Pulled away on a compacted thawed refrozen hill.
Not that it would work at speed when the forces of nature take over.
I agree Ian. The problem is we don't get enough of the white stuff for new drivers to learn on. I remember years ago, what seemed like weeks of bad driving weather in the winter and as field engineer then I was out in it a lot.