Snow causing you any driving problems?
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If i had my bullet cam recording this afternoons 'drive out', a few ppl may have some choice words to say to me, but it was all in a 30 limit and i was only doing 15mph, just not forwards thats all.....
Firestar_3x said:If you need to get anyplace in the snow then RWD sucks, however if you want to have fun
After work, i somewhat irresponsibly (in some peoples eyes) met up with 2 mates for a play in the snow. I origionally wasn't going too, but they wanted to see how good RWD was. So i went along.
we ended up cannock chase, and a long winding road going uphill for the first part. My mates 307HDI got stuck even looking at snow, it was awfull. My other mates MK3 fiesta was much better, but still a bit iffy in places, but my volvo never once got stuck. It just ploughed through whatever snow it came upon.
Went sideways more than once, but its so slow to happen, its easily correctable.
While my mate was stuck up this long road though, while debating reversing the way we had came, an old 1984 landrover came up behind us and both jumped out to see if we were ok, and offer us a tow. I told the driver that my mates 307 was stuck, hence blocking the road. I also informed him that me and my other mate in his fiesta would be able to get going again.
The drivers response "well you have an old volvo, doesnt it go anywhere "
I know not everyone will agree pratting around in the snow is a good idea, but i wanted to get to know the car better and how it would go on in the snow, and i got the answer, all this on £30 a corner no brand tyres too!
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My problem is GSD3's don't work in the snow at all, they turn into bands of ice.
I've had loads of fun out and about this afternoon, nothing i've not done before, just at slower speeds
I've had loads of fun out and about this afternoon, nothing i've not done before, just at slower speeds
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Just been out with some mates, my mates new vectra just kept spinning up a hill, we eventually got up it some decades later 
Just hope it isn't this bad tomorrow morning as I've got work!
Just hope it isn't this bad tomorrow morning as I've got work!
Biggest problem I've had tonight is idiots on the motorways who were intent on doing 45MPH in the middle lane in conditions no worse than any other wet friday night!
Saw 9 different accidents on thursday in the snow, mainly, due to excess speed.
Its a damn shame people have no idea how to drive in snow, tbh, most seem to have little idea whatever the weather!
And why is my rwd fat tyred BMW better in the snow than my girlfriends fwd Xantia with skinny tyres
Edit, oh! I forgot about the little sods who were lobbing snowballs at me from the motorway bridge near Penkridge tonight!
Saw 9 different accidents on thursday in the snow, mainly, due to excess speed.
Its a damn shame people have no idea how to drive in snow, tbh, most seem to have little idea whatever the weather!
And why is my rwd fat tyred BMW better in the snow than my girlfriends fwd Xantia with skinny tyres
Edit, oh! I forgot about the little sods who were lobbing snowballs at me from the motorway bridge near Penkridge tonight!
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Someone in my block of flats trying to get through the gates in the morning . . . . . . luckily the kerb stopped the car, before it went into the wall/tree.
This was the A34 near Newcastle-Under-Lyme, yes that is a 6-inch drift between the lanes, yes I did do a whole mile in an hour and 20 mins on this road.
http://paradigital.net/A34.jpg
http://paradigital.net/A34.jpg
Yesterday coming on to the M6 was fun from walsall. The motorway was doing about 35mph with snow / slush on it. I was even strugging to get up to speed on the on ramp.
Also I couldn't see where the lanes were on the motorway which was fun. Ended up just following the red lights an hoping I wasd in a lane. However back in the countryside I do admit using the handbrak at every opportunity.
Also I couldn't see where the lanes were on the motorway which was fun. Ended up just following the red lights an hoping I wasd in a lane. However back in the countryside I do admit using the handbrak at every opportunity.
I work in Birmingham and live in Walsall. I worked form home on Thursday. Yesterday I checked the forecast and everywhere I checked said rain in the afternoon, so I thought there was little risk. I left for work a bit late and got in about 10ish with no problems. About 14:30 it started snowing and sticking to everything, so I text'd my wife to say we ought to go home... she didn't pick it up until 16:00.
Cleared about 50mm of snow off the car and left the car park near the Arcadian at 16:30 and in an hour we'd done 50m, so I did a u-turn and dumped it back in the car park and went to the Bull Ring shopping centre for a coffee and a doughnut. Left the Bullring at 19:30 as all the shops were closing up and tried again. Again, in an hour we got to the same point as before. I returned to the car park and got out and walked about a bit, but everywhere was gridlocked. Went back to the car and the same people that were outside the carpark when I left were still there. By this time it was about 21:00, so my wife and I got a hotel room. About an hour later, a friend of my wife that left 16:30 and stuck with it said she'd just got home, 10 miles away. We could hear people beeping horns at the clogged junctions outsude until well past 23:00.
This morning in Brum it'd been raining for a few hours and the roads are totally clear. There's some slush on the M6 (which is clogging the drainage in the outside lane near Spaghetti, it's like a lake). Back in Walsall, there's still about 150mm of snow, it's raining, but it'sm not really washing it away.
People say, "It's only a bit of snow, why do we go to pieces?". This happens for 1 day every 3 years or so, 1 in a 1000. It's RARE. We don't use snow tyres (everything you buy here is classed as 'Summer' tyres) and we don't use snow chains, why bother if you're going to need it only once every few years. The roads aren't designed for snow. We don't get a season of icy weather, it's just a random event.
Cleared about 50mm of snow off the car and left the car park near the Arcadian at 16:30 and in an hour we'd done 50m, so I did a u-turn and dumped it back in the car park and went to the Bull Ring shopping centre for a coffee and a doughnut. Left the Bullring at 19:30 as all the shops were closing up and tried again. Again, in an hour we got to the same point as before. I returned to the car park and got out and walked about a bit, but everywhere was gridlocked. Went back to the car and the same people that were outside the carpark when I left were still there. By this time it was about 21:00, so my wife and I got a hotel room. About an hour later, a friend of my wife that left 16:30 and stuck with it said she'd just got home, 10 miles away. We could hear people beeping horns at the clogged junctions outsude until well past 23:00.
This morning in Brum it'd been raining for a few hours and the roads are totally clear. There's some slush on the M6 (which is clogging the drainage in the outside lane near Spaghetti, it's like a lake). Back in Walsall, there's still about 150mm of snow, it's raining, but it'sm not really washing it away.
People say, "It's only a bit of snow, why do we go to pieces?". This happens for 1 day every 3 years or so, 1 in a 1000. It's RARE. We don't use snow tyres (everything you buy here is classed as 'Summer' tyres) and we don't use snow chains, why bother if you're going to need it only once every few years. The roads aren't designed for snow. We don't get a season of icy weather, it's just a random event.