Now that winter is coming...

You'd be mad to get Snow Chains in this country, it's for inches and inches of snow not some lazy council workers who haven't gritted a bit of ice.
 
Minstadave said:
He's trolling. In the winter tyre thread he was pointing out how alpha he was by just fitting winter tyres to one axle.
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I can imagine your car wanting to swap ends often if you only had winter tyres on the front. Would the other way around cause massive understeer/no steering at all?
 
No no, he survived the bleak uk winter so it must be a good idea. Like driving around with macdonalds trays under your rear wheels, can't see that being unstable.
 
Southern English fairies!!!!!

Ohh no, a little wickle snow has fallen.

Pah, I drive a low car on summer 'bcos race car' tyres throughout the year!

Man up :D
 
Addicted said:
You'd be mad to get Snow Chains in this country, it's for inches and inches of snow not some lazy council workers who haven't gritted a bit of ice.
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Depends on your location doesn't it, lets say you own a cottage in The Lakes which has 1/2 a mile of private drive, lets say to access that drive you have to drive up to towards the base of Skiddaw, slightly uphill.... In snow covered roads that the council have no duty to clear.

Now tell me again why i'm mad to have a set of snow chains in the boot?
 
leaskovski said:
Because you're loaded to live in a lovely little cottage like that!?
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It's not mine, it's about use isn't it, snow chains have a good uses, even in this country, i would have missed out on my last 3 - 4 christmas's away due to not being able to get to the cottage.

Using the blanket statement of 'mad to have now chains in this country' is just BS.
 
Firestar_3x said:
It's not mine, it's about use isn't it, snow chains have a good uses, even in this country, i would have missed out on my last 3 - 4 christmas's away due to not being able to get to the cottage.

Using the blanket statement of 'mad to have now chains in this country' is just BS.
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I've driven a fair amount in Finland over the past few winters. I've gotten everywhere I needed to go, on normal snow tyres, in a Nissan Micra. You honestly don't need chains in the UK.
 
mccarf said:
I've driven a fair amount in Finland over the past few winters. I've gotten everywhere I needed to go, on normal snow tyres, in a Nissan Micra. You honestly don't need chains in the UK.
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Right, so how does that explain the fact I've needed to use them 4 times to get to my final destination?
 
Firestar_3x said:
Right, so how does that explain the fact I've needed to use them 4 times to get to my final destination?
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If you genuinelly have needed to use chains in the UK 4 times to get to your destination then you are in an acutely small minority of people that don't generally include people who live in Wiltshire and work in Bath.

There are probably more people in the UK who have used a small dinghy to get to work in the last few years than people who have required snow chains on 4 seperate occasions, but I don't see you suggesting we carry one of those :p
 
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