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for the most useless award:

- Oxford council for not clearing ANY snow or gritting a single road. Started snowing at 8am ... the first gritter or plow I saw today was at 3:30pm. By this time there were 6-7inches of snow in places with the only thing clearing the roads being the car traffic. No grit was put down last night.
None of the major roads have been cleared still, nothing has been done to the A40 going into Oxford, nothing has been done to Headington or Cowley roads. Nothing has been done to the Ring road (basically these are the only major roads around).
So where did I see this gritter/plow? On St Clements, stuck in traffic due to there being so much snow on the roads.

- BMW X3s for getting stuck in the snow 24/7 ... totally useless cars causing nothing but traffic jams.

- Highways Maintenance pickup truck that crashed into a lamppost on a roundabout exit. JUST DESERTS if you ask me, if only they had bothered to clear the roads of the snow ....


And finally, the nominations for the most awesome person on the road ... me, in my MR2 with summer tyres. I may have been going at 45 degrees for much of the day even when travelling in a straight line ... but I did not get stuck, did not spin out (came close mind you).
 
Just deserts.

It can't have made Oxford much more annoying to drive in to be honest.
 
So what is the science behind when to put grit out then? The night before or after heavy snow?

Initial thoughts were to put a layer out and not allow the snow to settle but that hasn't worked. :p
 
Depends, if you expect light snow then you grit

If you expect heavy snow then you plow the snow and then grit
And you keep repeating this if the roads start to get a build up.
 
Morba said:
X3s cause more problems because of snow than any other car?
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The only things I've seen abandoned today have been X3s, and then the odd C class and newish 3 series.



Oh, and I got another 2 nominations for useless stuff:

- The ABS system in my MR2 for totally failing at understanding snow and annoying me.

- Traffic lights for being too retarded to understand snow, so they keep changing as they think no-one is going in that direction as it takes people a while to get moving.
As opposed to being smart and giving people more time on green.
 
Greenlizard0 said:
So what is the science behind when to put grit out then? The night before or after heavy snow?

Initial thoughts were to put a layer out and not allow the snow to settle but that hasn't worked. :p
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When it gets below 0c the gritters go out on that night. Colder than -10c and they don't bother.
 
rypt said:
for the most useless award:

- Oxford council for not clearing ANY snow or gritting a single road. Started snowing at 8am ... the first gritter or plow I saw today was at 3:30pm. By this time there were 6-7inches of snow in places with the only thing clearing the roads being the car traffic. No grit was put down last night.
None of the major roads have been cleared still, nothing has been done to the A40 going into Oxford, nothing has been done to Headington or Cowley roads. Nothing has been done to the Ring road (basically these are the only major roads around).
So where did I see this gritter/plow? On St Clements, stuck in traffic due to there being so much snow on the roads.

- BMW X3s for getting stuck in the snow 24/7 ... totally useless cars causing nothing but traffic jams.

- Highways Maintenance pickup truck that crashed into a lamppost on a roundabout exit. JUST DESERTS if you ask me, if only they had bothered to clear the roads of the snow ....


And finally, the nominations for the most awesome person on the road ... me, in my MR2 with summer tyres. I may have been going at 45 degrees for much of the day even when travelling in a straight line ... but I did not get stuck, did not spin out (came close mind you).
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Doesn't Oxford officially hate the motor car anyway?
 
rypt said:
The only things I've seen abandoned today have been X3s, and then the odd C class and newish 3 series.



Oh, and I got another 2 nominations for useless stuff:

- The ABS system in my MR2 for totally failing at understanding snow and annoying me.

- Traffic lights for being too retarded to understand snow, so they keep changing as they think no-one is going in that direction as it takes people a while to get moving.
As opposed to being smart and giving people more time on green.
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LOL....

So, which car on the market or rather ABS do you know of that 'Understands Snow'?

As for lights, again......?
 
Some ABS systems are better than others, the MR2 one cuts in at the lightest touch in the snow

As for lights, the ones that can be centrally controlled so they can flip the "double/triple the light time" switch
 
Remembered yet another nomination for failness:

A Volvo estate that managed to park across a curbed divide at Tesco ... with the curb on each side fitting perfectly between the wheels, making the car complete stuck not actually touching the ground.
 
I thought it was a given that traction control/abs and especially bimmers are useless in the snow?

MR2 with summer tyres, you're brave, then again my scooby is a hoot to drive in the stuff :D
 
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