Spot the silly mistake.

Very easy to buy. And, if you're lucky, mytyres will supply tyres fitted to steel wheels!

Tony

A lot of the road problems up here are not just the skatey surfaces. When the snow finally stops, the council here eventually gets around to doing a good job of gritting the main roads followed by the minor ones. However, the quantities of snow quite often reduces double carriageways to a single pass through. When you have to pull over to let something past having two driven wheels on the verge to get back into the main road is better than just one.

WInter tyres for sure are a better option. I was at the local tyre shop due to a ouncture a week or two ago and the guy there was telling me he can't keep up with folk wanting winter tyres this year. He had just sold a set of four to a Range Rover owner that morning. £1200. That'll do nicely sir.

I heard an interesting comment a week or two ago, on the radio I think it was. A local was saying that he would far rather be behind a local in a Fiesta than a visitor in a Chelsea tractor.

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Originally posted by nap-ster:
A local was saying that he would far rather be behind a local in a Fiesta than a visitor in a Chelsea tractor.

We're all locals somewhere. What, this guy doesn't travel? What a f%$king stupid thing to say.

It was similar to saying he would far rather be following , if he was in Banff, a local in a Ford sedan than a visitor from New Orleans in a 4x4. Or something like that.

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Originally posted by nap-ster:
It was similar to saying he would far rather be following , if he was in Banff, a local in a Ford sedan than a visitor from New Orleans in a 4x4. Or something like that.

Yeah, I know. I've overreacted. I just can't stand this type of localism. It is just a another form of the always-repugnant tribalism that people are so apt to partake in. Ultimately, tribalism in its many forms (race, religion, sex, ancestry, place of domicile, football team "supported" etc) is destroying the lives of countless people around the world. Just stop it, people.

Of course, EVERYONE on this forum can drive like a Legend and so there's no point any of us arguing!! That video is me on my way to Tonym's from Wattisham airfield when I realised he was off to the Lakes.....

Tony

And so you couldn't even drink a hot cup of tea!
Great video

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Originally posted by Gary S.:
Are winter tyres easy to buy over here? I assume so, although I've not yet checked this out.

Hi Gary, over the years I've bought quite a few from camskill dot co dot uk

Just take them in with some old wheels to a tyre fitters, and they'll fit and balance them on for about £10 a corner.

I tend to buy in Jul/Aug for the best deals

HTH

John

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Originally posted by Manu:
Shoot,
I'm quite OK in our snow with my A4 Quattro on Michelin's Pilot Alpin PA3. A couple of 500's in the trunk help stability

Bags of Cat Litter are more effective, I'll gladly swap your two 500's for say four bags of clumping, non-scented ?

^^^

Love the choice of words!

Excuse me though, as the Fullers Brewer's Reserve is kicking in. Boy oh boy. I think I'm pissed!


Tony
Having a jar? Take the car!

This is quite incredible. I feel sorry for her. How will she explain this to the insurance company?

Tony

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Originally posted by Tony Lockhart:
This is quite incredible. I feel sorry for her. How will she explain this to the insurance company?

Tony

I don't feel sorry for her at all. The potential that I would perhaps have to pay for her stupidity is one reason I don't drive, nor take out insurance. Stupid people like this girl made my life a misery all through school. This just squares things up a little.

I suppose I meant I felt sorry for her in a different way.

Tony

Was quoted £800 for a set of winter tyres by my local BMW garage. Christ I would be dead by the time they did 20,000 miles.

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Originally posted by winkyincanada:
this girl made my life a misery all through school. This just squares things up a little.

So she also put you into full gear then left you crash into a wall...some girls don't just break cars...

Been there and done that! But did not hit anything.

The mistake she made was to set the steering on a collision course. But my view is that the people making the video ought to have gone out and helped her. It says everything about human nature that the video makers simply watch the incident unfold and not offer help.

But that approach is nothing new. I remember that we used to have a gateway opposite some council house leading into one of our fields, and the residents would watch as we tried to ease a trailor of grain or straw-bales out of the gatewayand and still miss the various cars parled all over the grass verge opposite the gateway instead of properly parking on the hard standings by the garages inside their gateways!

Sometimes human nature would rather get cruel pleasure out of someone else's misfortune than simply offering a helping hand.

ATB from George

My how we laugh at other people doing daft things in cars.. I am of course perfect. I have never driven into Nottigham Railway Station through the one way 'Exit' gateway and accused the lady who bumped me of not looking where she was going. I have never got a parking ticket for parking across a gateway of an office I thought was shut only for it to turn out to be the police station carpark. I have never driven my Elise into a flood that filled it to the depth of several inches. I've never reversed into the only tree in the middle of a pub carpark, or locked myself out of my car. I've never spent 4 hours attempting to start a car and then waiting for the AA only to find that it had a fuel cutoff switch under the front seat that I'd accidentally pressed when hoovering it out... I can go on.

Me, I'm a perfect driver.

Bruce

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But my view is that the people making the video ought to have gone out and helped her.

I hear what you are saying George, but I'm not sure where they would have gone to try and stop them.
I was in a similar situation, in the first snow, not sure anyone could have made me go any slower. It's almost as if the shear weight of the vehicle and gravity is enough.
Saying that some of them were going waaaay too fast.

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Originally posted by George Johnson:


The mistake she made was to set the steering on a collision course.

No, the mistake she made was trying to drive anywhere in the first place. She would have just crashed a bit further down the road anyway. And do you really think it is OK to leave a car running in gear with no-one behind the wheel? Her stupidity should, but unfortunately doesn't, defy belief. It is all too common.

Dear Winki,

I am not proposing letting a car or Landrover run in gear while you get out and push, but I have done it on many occasions on farm tracks and lanes. Once I was so hopelessly stuck in a Landrover that I left the thing ticking over in first gear and used eight hessian sacks, [which had contained rolled corn for sheep] as well as a shovel and pushing to get going again. Otherwise I had a four-mile walk, and that was on a Boxing Day!

Anyway the next thing I did after my first post here was to help a young mother get out of our little road which is a sheet of white packed snow. She had far too many revs on and the gradient onto the main road [which is flat] defeated her, so I suggested she let me drive the diesel Ford Focus out onto the flat. She was in tears, and when I backed down onto the flat of our road, and then moved off at tick-over in second gear and made the whole maneuver without a slip, she had become a Cheshire Cat! She was taking her baby to hospital, so no option for her to make the trip or not, and her car is now back safely.

Really I would not seek to judge whether another driver is good enough for the conditions without knowing far more about it at least.

Happy Christmas, and may the Goodwill of the Season be with you! George

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Originally posted by George Johnson:
She was taking her baby to hospital, so no option for her to make the trip or not...

This is even more ridiculous. What possible justification could she have for placing her child in such danger by taking him on the roads in a car which had close to zero traction? The danger that parents subject their children to by hauling them all over town is unconscionable. If he truly had to get to hospital, she should have called an ambulance.

Really once you get onto the main road, only six feet further than she had got, the road surface was more than adequate for her to transport her sick baby to hospital with no significant risk. Otherwise I would have offered to drive the car the whole way. Do you suppose an ambulance would have been better equipped to cope? Again a lack of local knowledge leads you to make a basically idiotic statement.

You really do need to learn to judge less in the absense of a full knowledge of the situation.

A good lesson is "Judge not, lest ye be judged."

Try to bring Goodwill to fore as is correct for the Season, and perhaps you will enjoy the sensation and persist indefinitely ... This would a be true advance, if your posting in this instance is any indication of your wrecklessly indulgent attitude to others' frailties, whom you define as more stupid than yourself - unless I am very much mistaken. It is called growing up and you seem to probably have a long way to go on that one going on your self-exposition in this thread.

Season's Greeting, George

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Originally posted by George Johnson:

A good lesson is "Judge not, lest ye be judged."

It is called growing up and you seem to probably have a long way to go on that one going on your self-exposition in this thread.

Season's Greeting, George

George, I'm just having a bit of fun. It's just a forum. I hate cars (and the assumption that we always NEED to be somewhere we're not), yes. That much is true.

But have a great holiday season....

Dear Winki!

God Jul!

Med glad Hilsen!!!

George Fredrik