Snow stories!

mjt said:
High gear, low revs. High gear, low revs. High gear, low revs.
Also, remember that stopping will be impossible :p

It's really not difficult.

The worst are people that drive around at 5mph in 1st gear. GET OUT OF MY WAY!
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Seen all sorts of bad driving today. Plenty of Mercedes and BMW's dumped at the roadside too.
 
Spent an afternoon flinging snow around and me into snow banks with my modified Cinquecento until I hit one at an angle that packed loads of snow into the engine bay, knocking the alternator belt off. That stopped play and I went home, and had to fit a new belt with the car half on / off a high kerb in the slushy gutter :(

Same car, driving up to see my mum in the lakes. She lives in the middle of nowhere, up a steep hill with a sharp turn at the bottom. Too much speed for the run up, and slide off on the corner - not enough speed and not making it up the hill. I *almost* made it up the hill but lost traction. Turned the wheel and dabbed the brakes as it began to go backwards and did a perfect 180, trundled down the hill and parked there instead.
 
Had some fun last year blasting along a road with 6" of the fresh stuff all over it. The rooster tails out the back were great.
 
Few years ago, just got home from work when it started snowing. Went out to meet up with of my jap car friends in my Silvia- before the snow fell too badly to get it up the hill. Stayed out for nigh on 8 hours all through the night hammering it around sideways and sliding car parks until the snow got too cut up. Was pretty good by all counts, an S12 Siliva, A Honda S2000, A Subaru Impreza WRX and a Volvo 850 T5 - which oddly was the only car that reliably went where it was pointed all night :D

Ended up leaving the cars miles from home that night, as the snow just got deeper and deeper until our silly lowered cars with fat tyres just stopped moving alltogether!

Picture from when I finally got it back to Uni Halls the next day.

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Way back when I got my first 3 series some friends called me about 4am wanting a lift back from Birmingham City centre as it was so bad no taxis or anyone was about.

First time in such deep snow with no gritted roads on my way there I got a bit cocky and thought "let's turn the traction control off, hey?!" ..... skid....spin...CRUNK!

Will never forget the sound of my alloys dinking into the curb as I 360'd down this empty road hahaha!

Let's just say it was a while before I took the traction control off again!


Just getting ready to attack the Birmingham roads and motorway it to Leicester... or maybe lanes would be better... either way I need to clear half a foot of snow off the car first though! Wish me luck!

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Stumbled across a single abandoned car this morning, well I say "abandoned", I mean stuffed into a ditch with a wheel hanging off. Can't quite work out how, given the road was straight (icy, sure, but arrow straight).

Though I did almost end up in one of my neighbor's front garden's this morning. As far as I can tell this was down to the unpredictable nature of Haldex. I was fine, doing about 5 mph out of my drive, then the rear wheels kicked in and became unprovoked oversteer! Fortunately due to the slow speeds involved this resulted in nothing more than sliding across the road and my tyre touching the dropped kerbs.
 
Anyone been up/down the M5/M6 this morning? Need to travel down later this afternoon, doesn't look like the weather will get any warmer to melt the snow though.
 
mjt said:
High gear, low revs. High gear, low revs. High gear, low revs.
Also, remember that stopping will be impossible :p

It's really not difficult.

The worst are people that drive around at 5mph in 1st gear. GET OUT OF MY WAY!
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How do you do that in an electric car?
 
I hit black ice once and slid up a grass bank, avoiding a signpost by about 2 inches. That was interesting.

Sadly no interesting snow stories, perhaps surprisingly...

I've only driven in the snow once:

 
I managed to make it from Peterborough to that meet and back in the Mustang with a few wobbles but no incidents. This time I put the RS into a kerb at a couple of mph about 300 yards from leaving my house. Thankfully just a kerbed alloy which should be easy repair for cheap.

Note to self. 4wd means nothing when there is 0 grip. Go slower.

Typical...
 
Semple said:
Anyone been up/down the M5/M6 this morning? Need to travel down later this afternoon, doesn't look like the weather will get any warmer to melt the snow though.
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Did Stoke-on-Trent to Bristol in a 44t 6 axle articulated truck, usual crappy side roads and lack of gritting in and around Stoke,but, clear run bar the M5 roadworks around Oldbury.

The biggest issue in these conditions isn’t the roads, it’s the stupidity of those using them.

Managed to slide my partners Focus into a kerb in my street last night :( , dinged the allow which was really annoying but otherwise had no issues this weekend despite mayhem around me.

I was supposed to pick my 735 up from the detailer on Saturday after a paint correction and wheel refurbishment, I rang him and said he can keep it until mid week, thankfully he understood and was happy to oblige - it would have been abysmal in this!
 
Saw a stuck artic last night... Looked as though he had jack knifed turning into an industrial estate! Driver was out with a shovel around the back tyres. Would have taken him some time!
 
SDK^ said:
On Friday night I started an overtake on a two lane dual cartridgeway corner that started clear but out of sight the second lane was all snow, cue me sliding sideways into the centre barrier. Both driver side wheels in bad shape and both ends scraping paint from the bumper and metal.

Not great when I’ll be selling it in two weeks :mad::mad:
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Similar thing happened to me on Sunday on the M25, but I was the one being overtaken. Some moron decides to use the outside lane which was constantly changing from covered in 4" of snow/compacted ice to being reasonably clear, cue him suddenly realising the road was changing to nothing but snow and ice and then having to almost wipe me out as he changes back into my lane. Close call, no wonder there was about a dozen cars stuck yesterday on the side of the motorway with people like that.
 
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ShadowMan said:
I managed to make it from Peterborough to that meet and back in the Mustang with a few wobbles but no incidents. This time I put the RS into a kerb at a couple of mph about 300 yards from leaving my house. Thankfully just a kerbed alloy which should be easy repair for cheap.

Note to self. 4wd means nothing when there is 0 grip. Go slower.

Typical...
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Tyre width and profile is critical in this weather.
 
Driving my Silvia Striker (Se7en style kit car) on Christmas day when it was snowing. No doors, Windscreen or any modern driving aids but glorious fun all the same.

Best car for snowy conditions was my 106 diesel with ~50 HP. Skinny tyres to cut through the snow but light and easy to 4 wheel slide all over the place and especially round and round the car park for 30 mins before work.
 
Scania said:
The biggest issue in these conditions isn’t the roads, it’s the stupidity of those using them.
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Very much this. Was going into a three lane section of the A1, road was quiet, cleared and gritted, and some total **** behind me in an X3 decided to boot it and try an undertake. Got about level and then slammed the brakes on as they realised there was a slow moving truck crawling on the inside, all the while CC kept me at 65. They then booted it again and swung around me and went off in the third lane. Jackie Chan WTF meme needed.
 
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