Be careful out there - very slippery!

I have to go out in a bit:

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Joy. Should be fun, especially given the numbers of cars stacking it up on the corner just past our house yesterday. Could have set up a chair and watched them all day long!

Can't even walk on most of it :D
 
My friend who moved to America said he set up a chair plus some beers one afternoon when it rained as he could see the highway from his garden. Said it was ultimate carnage :D

Driving in these conditions isn't too bad. You just need to remember the throttle isn't a switch! That said, I did a silly this morming, Works car aprk was full of snow and when turning in I decided to touch the brake at the same (no idea why) and I ended up glding slowly towards a parked car. Thankfully I fell short and just parked up.

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handbrake! lolwut?
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Yes, there was a fiar but of "lolwut!?" round the offiuce when she said that! The stupid thing is she drove the car from Manchester to Clitheroe (a decent way) in a car that's pretty much going to be written off and is a total mess. She left half of the car in bits on the road when she crashed (she called police to tell them though).
 
It was OK in the end, just got back :D

Tried out the ABS a few times on the really solid stuff to see how it reacts - not as much feedback or power as the old Corvette ABS but it does work quite well. Very, very unpleasant feeling though, pedalling it hard and just feeling it glide along quite diassociated from the road (this was all on our closed drive).

Roads aren't that bad though now - it's all thawing a bit and not as cold. Be nasty tomorrow though, if there's a hard frost!
 
Some random chap in the car park said to me yesterday 'You must have balls of steel riding a motorbike in this weather'. Replied that I didn't have any balls at all, they had retracted upwards :D
 
arrived at the airport after three weeks and i was confronted with this. took the best part of an hour to clear in -10C. not a happy bunny..

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mjt said:
arrived at the airport after three weeks and i was confronted with this. took the best part of an hour to clear in -10C. not a happy bunny..

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That is epic! LOL! I love it!

Can imagin it wasnt so fun for you tho.

EDIT: imaging taking all the snow off and realising it wasnt your car :)
 
hahaha nice pic of car covered in snow, just looks like everyone has dumped the snow form their cars onto yours :D

Yesterday when coming back from work after 10pm i stupidly was going abit fast and had to break hardish to go around a twisty bit of road just before some traffic lights and the back end slide out to the right and then back over when i corrected it by steering into it, my own fault for going to fast for the conditions and not breaking or easeing off sooner.

Never really had anything like that happen to me before but it just came as a natural thing to do and correct it, strange thing also was i was totaly calm during and after the possiblilty of totaling my car, i guess after all the hours played on games payed off hahaha, who said playing video games has no useful effect :p
 
Been driving like a complete Pansy in the S2000 the last few days, 20 in 30s and barely 30 in 40s.

Can feel the car sliding on most roundabouts even at a crawl, i hate it, im no Lopez, when the back end twitchs i have to go home for a new pair of strides!
 
Lord-Jaffa said:
Been driving like a complete Pansy in the S2000 the last few days, 20 in 30s and barely 30 in 40s.

Can feel the car sliding on most roundabouts even at a crawl, i hate it, im no Lopez, when the back end twitchs i have to go home for a new pair of strides!
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What tyres do you have?

I've been driving mine normally.
 
I remember with the mx5 going up steep hills with snow/ice the only way to get up them was in reverse as I just kept crabbing or the tail wanted to go first. That's one thing I don't miss and one time that traction control would have been helpful.
 
Simon said:
What tyres do you have?

I've been driving mine normally.
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E050MZ potenzas on 17s,

The roads that have been gritted are fine, unfortunatly to get to these there is a lot of back road hill areas, there is sheet ice on a lot of these and its extremely dangerous driving at night!

During the day is fine obviously!
 
Been impressed with my RS4 in the snow I must be honest having been been used to RWD beasts for the last few years, not least when directly compared to my wifes FWD version. You can feel the driven wheels searching for traction, clever stuff really and I simply leave all the aids switched on and drive it normally, though obviously slower as all those advantages vanish when you need to stop it.
 
I've had no issues yet, other than being able to break traction at about 40 on certain non-gritted road when accelerating. Though I've only been sitting on motorways shouting at people to get away from my bottom.
 
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