Am I going to have to get my snow chains out?

Not here yet - West Sussex. Last time I put snow chains on my motor(Skiing in French Alps) one of them snapped and put hundreds of chips on the paintwork of the car above the wheel. Won't be doing that again in a hurry.

About 6" here and windy. Ooh err Mrs!

Tony

I am counting on my Quattro to keep me in a straight line if need be. It doesn't help stopping though.

And a good 8" here at the top of the hill.

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Originally posted by Dave996:
I am counting on my Quattro to keep me in a straight line if need be. It doesn't help stopping though.

Rear wheel drive - will be staying in the driveway if bad. Not made for snow.

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Originally posted by Lontano:

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Originally posted by Dave996:
I am counting on my Quattro to keep me in a straight line if need be. It doesn't help stopping though.

Rear wheel drive - will be staying in the driveway if bad. Not made for snow.

lol. Beamer or better?

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Originally posted by Dave996:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lontano:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dave996:
lol. Beamer or better?

5 series. Nice car but not in the snow. Always quite fancied that A6 Allroad motor. That would be fun I imagine on the mountain roads.

During the '68, (I think) snows I had a mini van, front wheel drive didn't help as the ridge of snow in the middle of the road kept lifting the front wheels off the road, I had to wait for sump to melt the ice before proceeding.

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Originally posted by Dave996:

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Originally posted by Lontano:

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Originally posted by Dave996:
I am counting on my Quattro to keep me in a straight line if need be. It doesn't help stopping though.

Rear wheel drive - will be staying in the driveway if bad. Not made for snow.

lol. Beamer or better?

There is something better at being worse in the snow than a Beamer? Like Lontano, my 5 series will remain in the garage if we get snow.

Then again, we are not forcast any here until Sunday and even then it is described as light. I am sure the Met Office knows its onions on this...

Snow taking hold now in W.Sussex. Car grounded.

Well this is how my garden looks right now...

Coming down heavily now. The kids are going to be up early!

Time for snowy car pics?

Crikey,
It's mid December and you guys have had more snow in England than we've had in Southern Ontario (Canada) this season so far.

My 12 year old A4 Quattro has her winter rims and snow tires installed, so we're ready when the white stuff begins to fly !

Not much snow forcast for us this weekend. But we will have a high of -5 today. Fortunately the S3 also has the winter wheels and tires ready. Isn't global warming great.

Considering we are on the Pennines and I thought the East coast was going to get most of the snow we have a fair covering, probably 10-15cm and more coming down. It is nicely frozen too. It has laid on the A roads, well at least at this early hour

I thoroughly recommend a Lotus Elise in these situations.

Sporting.

Bruce

Left the Alfa at home today - fat tyres and lots of HP is not a good combination on snow. Took the Panda instead - what a fantastic car for snowy roads - passed many BMW's with spinning wheels - but I wish people wouldn't drive right up my backside when there's no way they would be able to stop if they had to...

Risking being accused of instructing elderly maternal mammals in ovate extraction by partial vacuum.

If you do not have a Traction Control System on your car you can get some equivalent function when you have one driving wheel spinning and the other stationary by slightly depressing the brake pedal to slow down the spinning wheel and passing the rotatipn to the stationary wheel - best attempted by using a small amount of throttle with the brake pedal partially depressed.

As you are all petrol heads this will not be news - but it might be.....

How to drive in snow in a Lotus Elise (without TC).

Plan A; Place eggs between your foot and the brake/accelerator pedals.

Drive without breaking them.

Plan B; Borrow wife's car!

Or in a rwd car, pull the handbrake on a notch or two.
Don't Saabs have the parking brake on the fronts for this reason?

Tony

My SAABS have TCS

My Defender has four wheel drive and no other electronic gizmo`s therefore no probs

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Originally posted by JWM:
And a good 8" here at the top of the hill.

Ok, I lied, 4". But the way things are going, it'll be 8" by tonight!


View from my study window (I work from home, or more correctly, I live at work).

My wife assures me it only looks like two or three inches here outside Swaffham Bulbeck.

Tony

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Originally posted by Tony Lockhart:
My wife assures me it only looks like two or three inches here outside Swaffham Bulbeck.

Tony

ooer missus!