Snow causing you any driving problems?

merlin said:
At wolverhampton road now. surface is now ice.

Mercs and bmw's rwd, bad news. I want my scoob back :p
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Lol, why on earth are you on the wolverhampton road, i thought you lived in halesowen?

Fancy dropping of a pizza in dudley? :p
 
Wow, sounds like you guys have been having fun. I'm only 20 or so miles from paradigm and Firestar and it's been fine here (and I'm in quite a high area of Manchester).

Bit of snow on the path, none on the roads. Car has been sat outside for a week (been off ill) and the snow hasn't even touched it.

Here's hoping that we don't get the brunt of it when I go back to work next weet.

/Awaits more stuck car pictures
 
agw_01 said:
Wow, sounds like you guys have been having fun. I'm only 20 or so miles from paradigm and Firestar and it's been fine here (and I'm in quite a high area of Manchester).

Bit of snow on the path, none on the roads. Car has been sat outside for a week (been off ill) and the snow hasn't even touched it.

Here's hoping that we don't get the brunt of it when I go back to work next weet.

/Awaits more stuck car pictures
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Where are you then? i have been staying in castleton,rochdale for most of the week.
 
ha, I'm just around the corner. I actually work in Heywood.

I live near Higher Crompton in Rochdale, if you've heard of it. It's near Shaw.
 
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Wolverhampton road and hagley road junction on way to quinton.

Home now. Nice - 30 miles covered in 7 hours.

What do I win?
 
agw_01 said:
ha, I'm just around the corner. I actually work in Heywood.

I live near Higher Crompton in Rochdale, if you've heard of it.
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Oh right :cool: Im normally in and around the northwest a bit now as a lot of my clients are up there, i was staying at the castleton hotel, tiny place but cracking food

I was actually slightly lost in heywood the other night went for a run in the freezing cold, took a few wrong turns and bloody hell I didnt have a clue where i was, not good, i managed to run about 10 miles tho :eek: the locals were no use either, I swear if I had listened to one bloke I would have ended up in liverpool

Wolverhampton Road is near halesowen
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Isnt that the road that leads off from brum towards dudley etc? (mind you theres probabaly a thousand wolverhampton roads in the west midlands :p )
 
wohoo said:
Isnt that the road that leads off from brum towards dudley etc? (mind you theres probabaly a thousand wolverhampton roads in the west midlands :p )
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It can be, but it can also be a way back to halesowen if you use the other side of the road;)
 
wohoo said:
Get me a pizza and i will give you a tenner, no bugger will deliver to me tonight.

I need some damn Pizza.
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I wouldn't go out in the car again tonight for £100 let alone £10.

I've`cheated death about 20 times tonight :p
 
TinkerBell said:
It can be, but it can also be a way back to halesowen if you use the other side of the road;)
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Oh yeah, but that would be common sense, which for me went out of the window when I got tomtom. :p
 
Well i had fun. 100 miles in 3 hours, although that sounds like a huge amount to some of those here :eek:

My journey home from uni usually takes 4 and a half hours, took me 6 today and it was not at all fun in the MR2! Foot down in anything lower than 3rd and the back end steps out big style. I had a Focus ST in front of me that struggled to get up a steep corner to get onto the A44. Me? I just floored it in first and went up sideways, much to the amusement of the chaps pushing the ST :D
 
wohoo said:
Oh yeah, but that would be common sense, which for me went out of the window when I got tomtom. :p
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Are you the sort of person to go the wrong way down a oneway street cause tomtom told you? ;)
 
L0rdMike said:
Are you the sort of person to go the wrong way down a oneway street cause tomtom told you? ;)
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No but i nearly tried to go across the river severn on a road that didnt actually exist :eek:
 
wohoo said:
Oh right :cool: Im normally in and around the northwest a bit now as a lot of my clients are up there, i was staying at the castleton hotel, tiny place but cracking food

I was actually slightly lost in heywood the other night went for a run in the freezing cold, took a few wrong turns and bloody hell I didnt have a clue where i was, not good, i managed to run about 10 miles tho :eek: the locals were no use either, I swear if I had listened to one bloke I would have ended up in liverpool
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Nice one! Next time you're up this way, a few of us should meet up and go for a beer or something. Always nice to put a face to a name,

Heywood centre is a bit of a dump. Rochdale isn't much better either. Don't think I've actually seen Castleton Hotel before. Is it anywhere near The Royal Toby?
 
wohoo said:
No but i nearly tried to go across the river severn on a road that didnt actually exist :eek:
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I have driven in to the oncoming lane because TomTom told me to. It owns me.
 
Never had any bother. I actually tried to get the tail out the other day (totally clear bit of road) and it wouldnt unstick, but i wasnt going very fast.
 
agw_01 said:
Nice one! Next time you're up this way, a few of us should meet up and go for a beer or something. Always nice to put a face to a name,

Heywood centre is a bit of a dump. Rochdale isn't much better either. Don't think I've actually seen Castleton Hotel before. Is it anywhere near The Royal Toby?
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Yeah just up the road, rochdale is a dump? never :p yeah next time im up i will drop you a line dude, i normally stay round rochdale or sometimes in saddleworth, hotels are nice and cheap and the foods good,which equals a happy boss,which equals him not paying too much attention to my fuel card bill,plus im close to all the motorways :p
 
tried getting to work thursday morning leaving at 5:45am. 45 minutes later I had covered the same distance i could cover by walking for 15mins.

Tried getting back home and was presented with this!

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Picy doesn't really show it well but its steep! Round about 4 inches deep as well. Took me 90 mins to clear half of it thursday afternoon thinking i'd get a run up and be ok.... was very wrong.. hit the snow and stopped :p

Bit more salt, 2nd gear, dropped clutch, floored acceleration, lots of wheelspin and slush flying everywhere and i was at the top! \o/

Came back today and on the back roads where i can always do 70 easily, was reduced to 15-20mph and was still sliding about. Very scary when its all hilly where i live and cars are sliding towards you in the opposite direction.

Lots of cars abandoned on the sides of the roads as well.
 
merlin said:
I wouldn't go out in the car again tonight for £100 let alone £10.

I've`cheated death about 20 times tonight :p
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If you need to get anyplace in the snow then RWD sucks, however if you want to have fun :p
 
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