Snow causing you any driving problems?

I'll see your 25 miles in 3.5 hours and raise you 6 miles in 2!

Just fought my way home from Birmingham and it's utterly insane out there. Basically they weren't forecasting snow for today so they failed to send the gritters out. It's been snowing here since midday and the roads are lethal. Not compacted snow but shedloads of icy slush with virtually no traction at all.

I was taking it very very gently and luckily didn't have any traction problems although I was having to slip the clutch like a mad thing to pull away gently. More of an issue were the countless numbers of utter idiots out there. People following you a few feet away just waiting to slide into you when they couldn't stop, people in front spinning their wheels up on the slightest of inclines and on the brink of sliding backwards and even people alongside spinning their front wheels and slewing alarmingly sideways.

All rather stressful but I eventually made it home. I don't ever want to drive in anything like that again!
 
Yesterday was fun, today was a nightmare. 3 hours to get 4 miles across Birmingham and then a further 1.5 hours to get home from there. Had to take the flattest route possible so as not to get stranded on even the slightest of inclines.

Lots of broken down cars in the middle of the motorway just resulted in even more chaos.

Z4 in the snow is not practical :p
 
Insane :eek:

Similar to paras experiences. Managed to get within 5 mins of home. Seen so many stackups it's total mayhem allover.
 
Its just as bad in Walsall - 3.4 miles I had to travel to get home. I left at 5:40pm and I have only just got back :( . There were some real idiots on the road - some people were just spinning up their wheels and keeping the power on (one of them nearly ended up slamming into the side of me :o ) The worst thing was I left the office thinking I will be home in 10 minutes and I didn't visit the little boys room.... it was touch and go for a while :p

I feel for you guys stuck in Birmingham - good luck getting home!
 
same here 2 1/2 hours to get home 15 miles. One bad patch going up a bit of a bank before the motorway holding everything up. Easy enough when your moving but with stop start traffic there was a lot of stopping then not going anywhere. I though I was stuck at one point only to pull onto the edge of the tracks and less flattened snot and manage to get going!

Parked in the local pub rather than risk reversing up the drive!

Can't believe how bad it got during today with people out and about where as yesterday was so easy.
 
AmDaMan said:
Insane :eek:

Similar to paras experiences. Managed to get within 5 mins of home. Seen so many stackups it's total mayhem allover.
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Glad to hear your ok. I was heading downhill back into town so was ok. If I was heading the opposite way out it may have been messy. Traffic queues looked shocking.

Have been using my brothers 1.0 utterly shagged Citroen AX and have left my 200 well alone over the last 2 days.
 
Car is stuck up a massive 2 degree gradient on the office carpark, if I let any more air out the rear tyres they'll get damaged.

Pff, what a day. :rolleyes:

With a bit of luck I'll be home by 11pm.

Seriously - the gritters around Bham - what is the problem - you see snow and you get out and grit the roads you fat lazy overpaid losers.
 
Took me 1.5 hours to travel 5 miles.
25 mph on the M54........lorry's going past at 50 :eek:

Lots of stranded RWD cars on inclines where there is slow traffic. I ended it hitting a kurb but only about 5-10mph. People abandoning their cars does not help at all. I've seen about 6 Zafira's on the side of the road.......and an X5 dumped on a round about.

The X5 made me giggle. Just imagine some barbie doll wannabe thinking "i'm in an off roader" bombing it up to the island, locking up and goin straight into it lol.

Overall, lots of stranded Mercs & Bmw's.......lots of waiting in traffic. I enjoyed it though because I've never had chance to drive in snow like this before.

Seen a couple of abandoned alfa's too........probably broken down though :p
 
Basically they weren't forecasting this much snow today so the gritters weren't sent out. Did see quite a few but all stuck in traffic - too little, too late.
 
Vertigo1 said:
Basically they weren't forecasting this much snow today so the gritters weren't sent out. Did see quite a few but all stuck in traffic - too little, too late.
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Black country gritters were out insantly and did a great job - black country routes all clear.
 
theres some right novice drivers about,

Melborne avenu is quite a hill, ask lukechad, people got stuck on it all over the place, yet i managed to get up it at about 40mph without one problem in a crappy old rover 600.
 
merlin said:
Black country gritters were out insantly and did a great job - black country routes all clear.
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Trafficmaster website is showing a few problems over there but admittedly nowhere near the problems elsewhere. North of Brum up to Manchester is unbelievable:

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two cars made it up the final hill on the way back today - mine, and the Citreon Ax in front - wicked! :D Still, it was a 2 hr journey for 5 miles. OK, Ive had enough of the snow - I was planning to drive to stoke to a certain store tommorrow. Thats now a task for next weekend. Instead I will stay in building an igloo! :p

I noticed the snow sculptures in the fields at birmingham uni were impressive. A 7 foot snowball and numerous bodily organs. :D
 
merlin said:
Black country gritters were out insantly and did a great job - black country routes all clear.
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Just as bad by me, wolvo,k-ford,stourbridge,halesowen and dudley were a nightmare for me, and that was just before the snow really started, i did see plenty of gritters out there, but how much can you do when theres that much snow falls in such a small time frame.

I live on a main-ish road in dudley, and its still queueing.

Worse still, papa's pizza wont deliver to me, i might have to actually walk into town and pick it up,grrr
 
I can honestly say I had a great time, today and yesterday. abs was bad, but other than that, fine. rear end came out a LOT, was good fun to control though.
had SO SO SO much fun in car parks, not need for anything but throttle and steering. some awesome slides and donuts, hehe, couldn't stop grinning.
but can someone tell me if mercs just don't work in the snow?
every single one I saw had front wheels locked and rear wheels spinning, it was either poor driving, or weird cars me thinks!!!
 
Vertigo1 said:
Trafficmaster website is showing a few problems over there but admittedly nowhere near the problems elsewhere. North of Brum up to Manchester is unbelievable:
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Up untill around 11 am, there wasnt a solitary ********* in manchester, looks like cheshire down to shrewsbury is a mare, not surprised tbh, the A49 was a nightmare this morning.
 
It took my wife over 5 hours to get from Tamworth where she works to our house a journey of normally 35 minutes. Roads are awful tonight as it seems the gritters have got it all wrong again.
 
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