Who has hung their keys up for the winter?

Jonnycoupe said:
Clutch in then? Yeah whatever :p
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It's a perfectly good response if it's all going pear shaped. On the really slippery stuff it's about the only way to get the wheel speed back close to road speed, which you need if you want to steer. Using engine braking almost guarantees you won't recover the situation.
 
I have a job so of course I will be driving, the worst part is people abandoning cars all over the road I saw atleast 15 abandoned cars on a 10 mile stretch this morning at 5.30am...
 
BigglesPiP said:
It's a perfectly good response if it's all going pear shaped. On the really slippery stuff it's about the only way to get the wheel speed back close to road speed, which you need if you want to steer. Using engine braking almost guarantees you won't recover the situation.
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Right, but you were stating engine braking to prevent such a out of control event. So if it did go pear shaped clutch in would not be an issue as its already in.... I have no idea what you are talking about. Any sort of reaction control mechanism sounds like you need 3 legs to deal with, the majority of the forum readers do not have those 'characteristics'.
 
-Use brakes rather than engine braking (ie. don't change down to slow down).

-If you loose control, press the clutch.

How is that hard? Where do you need 3 legs?


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It's not useful in snow, but I think a decent potion of OcUK motors do in fact have 3 legs when driving a car...
 
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i tend to use engine breaking and the gears to slow down if i can and use the breaks very gentley to stop completely, ive never had any problems driving this way tbh im glad my car doesnt have ABS or traction control, dads car does and its no use at all in this weather
 
BigglesPiP said:
-Use brakes rather than engine braking (ie. don't change down to slow down).

-If you loose control, press the clutch.

How is that hard? Where do you need 3 legs?


PS:
It's not useful in snow, but I think a decent potion of OcUK motors do in fact have 3 legs when driving a car...
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Well i had images of you having to press the accelerator to tickle out any element of engine braking, press the brake and be ready on the clutch... :p
 
BigglesPiP said:
It's a perfectly good response if it's all going pear shaped. On the really slippery stuff it's about the only way to get the wheel speed back close to road speed, which you need if you want to steer. Using engine braking almost guarantees you won't recover the situation.
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well from my experience that's wrong, braking locks all four wheels and causes all sorts of problems, feathering the clutch controls just two and you can reduce speed perfectly well by dropping a cog and using progressive clutch control, obviously if you slam down a gear its all going to go wrong just as it would if you slammed on the breaks.

just read your PS about not being relevant in the snow, :confused: isn't that the OP?
 
What a silly thing to do, hanging your keys up because it gets a bit cold?

I thought Joshy was a big car enthusiast, but he's scared of a bit of snow?

What if people need to drive to work?

Haha :D
 
I've just been and had some nice new tyres put on the car ready for all the nasty white stuff. Even if they are P6000s, they're better than the almost-slicks I had on before.
 
I'm having a nightmare driving mine, lol, just had 4 new conti's put on it as well. Think some steely's and winter tyres are in order for future referance, lol.
 
Janesy B said:
SNOW PICS
I'm good thanks.
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Is that this year? South London has been fine so far...

Gaijin said:
I'm garaging it as of today. What tipped it was I was having a quiet drive over the downs today and these bunch of jokers in MX5's, Mondeo's and the odd Civic turned up and started throwing their cars all over the place.

I'm not taking the car out again with such craziness about until the spring.
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You sure that wasn't yesterday? :p
 
[Corsa]Fox;17892963 said:
It's the English way. We cannot just get on with something, we have to have mass hysteria and over dramatisation of everything.

Just LOOK at the 70 page 'ITS SNOWING' thread in GD for further illustration.
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FTFY
 
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