Overconfident 4x4 drivers in snow

Uriel

Uriel

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Here's one at the bottom of my parents road yesterday morning.

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lol, it does amaze me how many people just assume that because they have a 4x4 they'll be fine. There's woman who I work with who wouldn't shut up about her bloody 4x4. The irony is we're a school, so if there buses can't get the students in (or they think conditions might change to the point where they won't be able to get them home again) we don't open.
 
What a lot of people don't think about is the tyres. A friend has a RR Sport and had summer/general tyres on it, when it snowed we went sideways a few times. :p
 
In some ways 4x4's are more dangerous in the snow as it lets you pick up speed without any hassle. Then you realise how little grip there is when you meet a corner or need to brake.
 
I had some ***** in a 4x4 nearly kill me the other day. To get out of my road you have to go up a narrow hill, this idiot comes belting down it, then brakes hard loses control and nearly skids into my car, seriously close to me, needless to say I shouted some serious abuse out the window and then carried on my journey.

I don't like a lot of 4x4 drivers at the best of times. To slow in good conditions, too fast in bad conditions.
 
saitrix said:
In some ways 4x4's are more dangerous in the snow as it lets you pick up speed without any hassle. Then you realise how little grip there is when you meet a corner or need to brake.
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exactly, plus the typical 4x4 driver has a single digit iq. when we had properly compacted snow on our roads, it would always be an x5 attempting to overtake on solid ice

i have 4wd so can accelerate almost like normal (as normal as you can with 320bhp in the snow) but still i can only turn and stop at the rate physics will allow.

donuts like a hero though
 
I was caught out today by compacted snow. I've been driving around in the Polo which has- 50mm less width on the tyres, no-ABS and no stupid EDL. Today on my way to work (after spending 15 minutes trying to get into the Polo to get my car off the drive :mad: ) I got near the end of the close and braked. Other than feeling like someone was thumping the bottom of my foot with a hammer nothing happened.

Luckily the road I was sliding uncontrolably on to had been gritted so the 306 driver I was on collision course with was able to pull over a bit as my car finally stopped with the front bumper 3 feet over the junction line :o

I've lost count how many times I've had a 4x4 wedged up my chuff in the snow over the last few weeks though :rolleyes:
 
Had to laugh at some girls I know who were like "I can make it to XYZ because I can use my Mums 4x4".

So you can't manage a Corsa in the snow, but you'll venture out in a Q7. Good luck with that.
 
I was going to make a thread on this last week. I've never in my life seen as many retards in 4x4's driving in such a cocksure manner in terrible driving conditions. They seem to exhibit the old "Haha, be gone with you standard car minions, I shall breeze past you in my fit-for-purpose machinery!", not realising that whilst they may have more traction when putting power down, they're actually more likely to end up in a ditch as the cheap Kwik Fit special tyres on their lardy, momentum filled SUV which they remortgaged their house to get, break traction.
 
lordrobs said:
I got near the end of the close and braked. Other than feeling like someone was thumping the bottom of my foot with a hammer nothing happened.
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Thats your ABS trying to work....


First, ABS will only feel different from ordinary brakes when you're braking hard. During “ordinary” braking (i.e., not a “panic” stop), you should brake in exactly the same manner whether you have ABS or not, and the brakes should respond in the same way.

When you initiate hard braking, the anti-lock braking system may be activated. When this happens, you may experience rapid pulsations or vibrations of the brake pedal, it may feel like the brakes are “pushing back at you,” or the pedal may suddenly drop. Also, the valves in the ABS controller may make a noise that sounds like “grinding” or “buzzing.” These are not signs that the ABS is not working, they are signs that the ABS is working, so if you're braking hard, and you this happens, just keep the brake pedal pressed down.

One way to test your ABS brakes, and also familiarize yourself with the feeling of how they work, is to drive your car ( fairly slowly ) on a loose gravel lot ( without any people or traffic ) and apply the brakes hard.
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its the only day of the year 4x4 drivers can justify their purchase, but then they go and drive silly, and id expect come unstuck
 
Scuzi said:
I was going to make a thread on this last week. I've never in my life seen as many retards in 4x4's driving in such a cocksure manner in terrible driving conditions. They seem to exhibit the old "Haha, be gone with you standard car minions, I shall breeze past you in my fit-for-purpose machinery!", not realising that whilst they may have more traction when putting power down, they're actually more likely to end up in a ditch as the cheap Kwik Fit special tyres on their lardy, momentum filled SUV which they remortgaged their house to get, break traction.
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:D

These are my thoughts exactly. Living in Essex, you see every other car is a bloomin Range Rover sport or Audi Q7 with some clot or bimbo behind the wheel doing 40 in the snow because they're convinced their pimpmobile can handle it.
 
Round here 4x4s are normally used properly to some degree so therefore it's just other silly dingleberrys that get it wrong.
 
al123 said:
My GF lives in Billericay, everyone there seems to drive like a **** :(
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I know, it's really bad here, so many drivers with incomprehensible rage. I must get it worse because I never exceed the speed limit, and most people here happily do 40-45 in 30 zones.

As a general rule, the further north you go, the better the driving. I have not seen an exception to this general trend, though going much south of London can also yield good results!
 
alex, youre spot on. the driving gets better the further north you get from luton. essex is the pits though in terms of driving standards
 
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