It took me about 3 minutes tonight to get to the top of my road from the bottom. It's about 150 yards long, was carpeted with snow and typically has about a foot either side clearance with parked cars either side. I've never had to concentrate so much...
Traction control was going mental and I kept having to boot it to get any traction uphill - each time I did this it had the negative effect of pulling me over to one side so had to do a *lot* of compensating with steering. I ended up parking in a nearby wide street instead as I thought some incompetent pleb is likely to smash a load of cars up.
My sister's front garden wall has already been smashed in tonight - she lives facing a road entering a junction. When we got back to her place we found tyre marks in the snow, up on the pavement, and up into her garden along with a load of footprints where the **** had gathered up the evidence (numberplate, I assume) and driven off
Good job her car wasn't parked in front of the house as usual I guess - I've told her to park along the road instead in future. At least the ***** who drove off will have screwed front shocks and mangled front bodywork.
Staying in 2nd gear doing about 4-10mph worked for me most of the way, and not taking for granted cars approaching when at a give way sign. Stopping distances are multiplied by ridiculous amounts in these conditions and I thought my car was broken when the TC and ABS were kicking in - the brake pedal kept pushing my foot back and I started panicking at first! Good experience methinks.
