Snow and Retardedly slow driving (doing my head in)

to be fair though, Where did i say i was Gods Gift and where who am I the reason my age group has so many crashes when i havent crashed. This thread was a rant but its hardly a idealogiocal revolution i was basically saying
OMG i hate how everyone drives like 10 mph in pretty ok conditions just cos theres snow on the grass

Had say.. you made this thread im pretty sure there would be no such reaction

The only thing i will say is the only thing i have said wrong in the thread is im not unexperienced. Also i did freak out at mark but frankly that post is a joke. Thats abit silly of me really but I never said i wasnt young though.

Also can i just reiterate the facts for the retarded

No Snow on road
Road is dry
Its 3c and theres no ice (this is a fact, there really was no ice)
NSL Road
30MPH
 
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You have to be aware that in these cold temperatures and with the moisture on the road a sudden chilly breeze can cause the little layer of water to freeze causing a hazzard which you cannot anticipate.

This is another reason why people drive slow in the winter.
 
The trouble is, you have no idea what is going on in another persons car. I had some c0ck in a van tailgating me about 4' off my bumper for a couple of miles tonight on the way home. He was probably really annoyed that I was doing 30 in light snow, but he wasn't sitting in my drivers seat, watching the TC light flicker on and off like a stobe. The only comfort was knowing that he could probably stop much better than I could in those conditions.

Just because your car feels like it's handling OK, it doesn't mean theirs is...
 
You're lucky if I hit 30mph at any point today, or the two days previous.

Sure the trip computer was showing an average of 17.2mph, which is a lot faster than I would have given myself credit for.

The roads are crazy.

I would also concern yourself less with what other people do on the road and concentrate yourself. If other people overreact or want to go slow there is little that can be done.
 
Eliot said:
Had say.. you made this thread im pretty sure there would be no such reaction
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If I made this thread, I'd make it both intelligible and not looking like the rantings of an angry ten year old.

You need to remember that this is your first 'performance' car which is on dodgy tyres and that although the roads look fine, it's is slippery out there.

CALM DOWN.
 
iaind said:
Nobody was driving at 10mph
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Oh yes i forgot i was in motors.. they were going 30mph i obviously didnt say in the same post your referencing did i?

Oh no wait Yeah i did.

Janesy i am calm, well i have been since the mark post anyway but that did seriously grind my gears.
The point is yes even with my car having utter garbage on its alloys it was safe for me to drive at say 50 for sure, i mean we are talking about a flat wide road here. im not saying i would go 70 or anything.

also can i re iterate that i dont live where most of you live, and where most of you live it is probably genuinely snowy, but here where i am we have had one lot of snow and it was about 2 cm
 
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I'd rather they drove at a speed they felt comfortable at, and in control, than speeding inappropriately and later ploughing into me. No need to be in a rush, or rush about, in conditions like this - and the last thing you want is someone high tailing up behind you and closing up gaps.
 
I've just driven from my office in Solihull to my home north of Lichfield. All the way home it was wet but clear. Then I got to Lichfield and suddenly a bit more snow around junctions and some settling, but still OK. Down the A51 towards Rugeley (twined with the Bronx and Stoke) and it was getting a bit worse but still cool.

Out of Rugeley and heading out into the sticks and BANG, I turn the corner at Rugeley Trent Valley station and it's as if I have pulled into Iceland! The road it frozen, no grit to see and ice all over, I mean glass stuff. The further I got the deeper it gets and in the space of a mile I have gone from meh to stuck and bent motors. Down the lane to my house, around 3 miles, it is littered with cars and the snow I would say is 4" deep. The total journey was 42 miles and for perhaps 35 miles it was all good, then the last 7 it was terrible. RS4 was epic mind, nothing phased it and passed FWD and RWD cars stuck!
 
Eliot said:
Oh yes i forgot i was in motors.. they were going 30mph i obviously didnt say in the same post your referencing did i?

Oh no wait Yeah i did.

Janesy i am calm, well i have been sice the mark post anyway but that did seriously grind my gears.
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To be perfectly honest, your posting style gives me a headache so I gave up reading by that point.

Anyway. Read what others have explained, just because your cars inaccurate temperature sensor says it's 3 degrees and you can't see any ice, doesn't mean there isn't any. An air temp of 3 degrees means a road temperate of close to freezing anyway
 
Housey said:
BANG, I turn the corner at Rugeley Trent Valley station and it's as if I have pulled into Iceland! The road it frozen, no grit to see and ice all over, I mean glass stuff.
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It's exactly the same here, trucks and vans stuck all over the place, small sections of road are hunky dory, you turn off onto another B road and BOOM it's like it's had it's own climate there for the last 24 hours. The road is genuinely like a huge glacier outside, I'll see if I can get a pic to show what it's like.

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Just took this outside. Under that fine layer of granular snow is rock-solid, compacted sheet ice about 3 or 4mm thick.

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Eliot said:
Oh yes i forgot i was in motors.. they were going 30mph i obviously didnt say in the same post your referencing did i?

Oh no wait Yeah i did.

Janesy i am calm, well i have been since the mark post anyway but that did seriously grind my gears.
The point is yes even with my car having utter garbage on its alloys it was safe for me to drive at say 50 for sure, i mean we are talking about a flat wide road here. im not saying i would go 70 or anything.
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You do know they are limits not targets don't you?

People can go at 30 if that is where they feel comfortable in the conditions they were driving in.
 
Ok well i'll work on my posting style for you ok.

I've given up explaining the conditions now anyway, none of you were there i was, there really is no point
 
Vigoro said:
You do know they are limits not targets don't you?

People can go at 30 if that is where they feel comfortable in the conditions they were driving in.
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read the last i dunno... 7 words? Oh yes and the other bit, the bit where i said it was safe for about 50mph, yeah that bit.
 
OP sounds like the kind of person who'll later take out 20 feet of fence after not realising there was a load of black ice on a 'clear' road :D
 
The conditions were close to freezing, you've already said that and its like that everywhere. Thus, there could be, and probably would be ice
 
Eliot said:
read the last i dunno... 7 words? Oh yes and the other bit, the bit where i said it was safe for about 50mph, yeah that bit.
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You make young people seem imature, and with the attitude you seem to have are probably the reason my insurance is expensive :(
 
Lashout_UK said:
OP sounds like the kind of person who'll later take out 20 feet of fence after not realising there was a load of black ice on a 'clear' road :D
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Exactly this.

It's unheard of that I ever agree with markdavis, but he's right in this case - this is why young people pay through the nose for insurance.
 
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