WTD: 330i for 330Xi
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no damage at all thankfully, very lucky.. if i had slid another inch or two i would have ended up in trees :/
Tom, that doesn't look too bad? Other cars have made it judging by the tracks, I've driven worse to Swansea (16 miles) in the past. The problems come when you get bunching traffic, all to easy to nudge into another car.
Gradient is your other enemy
Gradient is your other enemy
Tom, that doesn't look too bad? Other cars have made it judging by the tracks, I've driven worse to Swansea (16 miles) in the past. The problems come when you get bunching traffic, all to easy to nudge into another car.
Gradient is your other enemy
the tracks end about 200m up the road where cars have turned around. Also, the only cars i saw get that far were generally superminis with 115 section tyres to cut through it and probably started where it wasnt too bad. Me, with 255s on the back, plus having to get across untouched ice and snow to get to the tracks meant i just wasnt going anywhere. Also it is a decent gradient too
I certainly didnt just look out the window and say "**** it" i spent a good 30 minutes trying different approaches to it (including the obligatory ****ed off give it some welly tactic that everyone must try at least once if only for the screen of snow it gives off behind you) and never made it more than 4 feet off my drive way before becoming stranded again.
For those who care, i did actually get into work for about midday after letting it clear a bit, but by all accounts we're expecting another 6 to 12 inches of snow tonight....great.
Tom.
Similar situation here up north @ 8.15 A.M . DSC went absoloutely ape luckily with a bit of feathering I managed to get up the hill outside the house surely you could have got through that with a bit of care 
. Our roads weren't gritted either .
I've never drove in the snow with a RWD car before so it was interesting. Certainly a lot more twitchy and less margin for error
. Our roads weren't gritted either .I've never drove in the snow with a RWD car before so it was interesting. Certainly a lot more twitchy and less margin for error
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Pmsl, you call that sprinkling being snowed in.
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PS to people driving in snow with DSC equiped BMWs, you need to turn off stage 1, (just press it for 1 second), to deactivate the DSC and activate the ASC+T, which gives you a bit more wheelspin. It doesn't cut the power, just taps the ABS.
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Eagle F1s are about the worst tyres for the snow!
I was in the peak district in my previous car, a focus, with Eagle F1s a few years back in the snow and it wouldn't even get up a very small incline. However, it was sheet ice!
Well by all accounts that looks exactly like the amount I had on my road this morning which requires me to drive on an incline to even get out of the estate. I'm also on Eagle F1's and they have coped just fine today.
You just need to take more care Tom
That's hardly a snowing in
Hardly anyone ever tries that for some reason!
A demonstration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loVtw5A4nkg
Some people are never happy! Just hose the arches or something.
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Yes to the normal driver it's a bit scary as it allows for the extra slip, but once used to it, it will allow a car with DSC to actually move in the snow without the the power being cut so much that it won't allow the wheels to turn!
Last year I tended to turn it off for moving from a stop, and then back on again once moving ok.
Then there are the other people who think DSC will mean they don't crash when they try and drive like normal in the snow
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I did the snakes pass today in the snow, set off around 8.10 but drivers the other way were flashing and saying it was closed, so turned around and waited in standstill traffic for an hour in Glossop (was going to go via M62 then M1 to Sheffield from Manchester). Decided to chance the Snake's pass being open again, and it was completely clear all the way to sheffield at 9am, barely a car on there. Road was snowy, but not too slippery taking it easy.
God knows what was happening around Glossop and manchester though, traffic was a standstill for hours... mayhem!
God knows what was happening around Glossop and manchester though, traffic was a standstill for hours... mayhem!
Must have seen at least 5 gritters in a 10min journey, which is unusual for SCC as you don't usually see any. Car kept getting battered by grit every time i went past one though. Wish they would grit the pavements as well, wouldn't have ended up getting out the car this morning an arriving in work on my arse.