Playing in the snow
05 February 2012, 04:15 PM
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Playing in the snow
Went out with Mags and Mantas this morning to have a play
Mags the Loon got friendly with a hedge!! Now minus splitter!!
Then we found a bit of space
Then Mags needed to cool off a bit!!
These two look really impressed too don't they??
Cheers guys
Rich
Mags the Loon got friendly with a hedge!! Now minus splitter!!
Then we found a bit of space
Then Mags needed to cool off a bit!!
These two look really impressed too don't they??
Cheers guys
Rich
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05 February 2012, 10:03 PM
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anyhooooo this morning at 0100, I went to collect daughter, set off on usual route, up Ducks Hil, at the start of hill there was a Beemer parked on the left, hazzards on, so I slowed then pulled past, and went up hill, much further up, came to a tangle of front wheel drive stuff all blocking the road, mostly revving the nuts off, and sliding sideways into each other!
Watched it for a few mins, then u turned to go an alternate route as they had all blocked the road.
Beemer driver is out of car and stopped me to ask "why I thought I could pass him and go uphill?" ( in a 'how very dare you' kind of p1ssed off tone)
"Sorry thought you were parked up, hazzards on, and I could because...
1. I've got 4 wheel drive
2. I've got snow tyres ...(fitted by the resident tyremaster! Cheers Maggs) which is why I'm not sliding.....anyway off to go the other route, - ..oh, don't follow your car isn't capable, ...........the look on his face was priceless!!
So drove from Ruislip (via Breakspear rd, thru Harefield (woodcock hill) to Rickmansworth, steep and windy road, snow about 6 - 8 inches, no problem, think I was one of the only cars to venture that way as pretty much virgin snow all the way. Return journey the same route again nil problems.
These cars are so capable! I think that the problems encountered earlier are due to a lack of training and experience in snowy conditions, and the lack of knowledge of their vehicles capabilities, and the poor choices made thereafter!
I feel a bit sorry for them, as it often ends up as a traumatic and possibly expensive learning lesson....or it looked that way for the silver saloon nose into the ditch opposite the Woodman pub after obviously not negotiating the turning at an appropriate speed.
Lovin the Leggy!
Watched it for a few mins, then u turned to go an alternate route as they had all blocked the road.
Beemer driver is out of car and stopped me to ask "why I thought I could pass him and go uphill?" ( in a 'how very dare you' kind of p1ssed off tone)
"Sorry thought you were parked up, hazzards on, and I could because...
1. I've got 4 wheel drive
2. I've got snow tyres ...(fitted by the resident tyremaster! Cheers Maggs) which is why I'm not sliding.....anyway off to go the other route, - ..oh, don't follow your car isn't capable, ...........the look on his face was priceless!!
So drove from Ruislip (via Breakspear rd, thru Harefield (woodcock hill) to Rickmansworth, steep and windy road, snow about 6 - 8 inches, no problem, think I was one of the only cars to venture that way as pretty much virgin snow all the way. Return journey the same route again nil problems.
These cars are so capable! I think that the problems encountered earlier are due to a lack of training and experience in snowy conditions, and the lack of knowledge of their vehicles capabilities, and the poor choices made thereafter!
I feel a bit sorry for them, as it often ends up as a traumatic and possibly expensive learning lesson....or it looked that way for the silver saloon nose into the ditch opposite the Woodman pub after obviously not negotiating the turning at an appropriate speed.
Lovin the Leggy!
05 February 2012, 10:15 PM
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Jackie and me stayed out at a local hotel last night due to no cabs being available
We set off this morning to go home and found our neighbours clearing their drive
Stopping in the road outside they told us of the problems getting on the driveways due to the slope of the road that the other neighbours had been having.
After exchanging pleasantries we moved off to our drive, selected manual dccd and lock mode, then revised into our drive as if nothing had happened
Nice to see them all shovelling their drives clear for tomorrow whereas we have stayed indoors
I love my awd
We set off this morning to go home and found our neighbours clearing their drive
Stopping in the road outside they told us of the problems getting on the driveways due to the slope of the road that the other neighbours had been having.
After exchanging pleasantries we moved off to our drive, selected manual dccd and lock mode, then revised into our drive as if nothing had happened
Nice to see them all shovelling their drives clear for tomorrow whereas we have stayed indoors
I love my awd
05 February 2012, 10:21 PM
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Yeah we took the wrx wagon out in the snow and the mrs got well pieed off with me drifting every empty corner i come to i would have loved to have me dccd though 
06 February 2012, 06:59 AM
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anyhooooo this morning at 0100, I went to collect daughter, set off on usual route, up Ducks Hil, at the start of hill there was a Beemer parked on the left, hazzards on, so I slowed then pulled past, and went up hill, much further up, came to a tangle of front wheel drive stuff all blocking the road, mostly revving the nuts off, and sliding sideways into each other!
Watched it for a few mins, then u turned to go an alternate route as they had all blocked the road.
Beemer driver is out of car and stopped me to ask "why I thought I could pass him and go uphill?" ( in a 'how very dare you' kind of p1ssed off tone)
"Sorry thought you were parked up, hazzards on, and I could because...
1. I've got 4 wheel drive
2. I've got snow tyres ...(fitted by the resident tyremaster! Cheers Maggs) which is why I'm not sliding.....anyway off to go the other route, - ..oh, don't follow your car isn't capable, ...........the look on his face was priceless!!
So drove from Ruislip (via Breakspear rd, thru Harefield (woodcock hill) to Rickmansworth, steep and windy road, snow about 6 - 8 inches, no problem, think I was one of the only cars to venture that way as pretty much virgin snow all the way. Return journey the same route again nil problems.
These cars are so capable! I think that the problems encountered earlier are due to a lack of training and experience in snowy conditions, and the lack of knowledge of their vehicles capabilities, and the poor choices made thereafter!
I feel a bit sorry for them, as it often ends up as a traumatic and possibly expensive learning lesson....or it looked that way for the silver saloon nose into the ditch opposite the Woodman pub after obviously not negotiating the turning at an appropriate speed.
Lovin the Leggy!
Watched it for a few mins, then u turned to go an alternate route as they had all blocked the road.
Beemer driver is out of car and stopped me to ask "why I thought I could pass him and go uphill?" ( in a 'how very dare you' kind of p1ssed off tone)
"Sorry thought you were parked up, hazzards on, and I could because...
1. I've got 4 wheel drive
2. I've got snow tyres ...(fitted by the resident tyremaster! Cheers Maggs) which is why I'm not sliding.....anyway off to go the other route, - ..oh, don't follow your car isn't capable, ...........the look on his face was priceless!!
So drove from Ruislip (via Breakspear rd, thru Harefield (woodcock hill) to Rickmansworth, steep and windy road, snow about 6 - 8 inches, no problem, think I was one of the only cars to venture that way as pretty much virgin snow all the way. Return journey the same route again nil problems.
These cars are so capable! I think that the problems encountered earlier are due to a lack of training and experience in snowy conditions, and the lack of knowledge of their vehicles capabilities, and the poor choices made thereafter!
I feel a bit sorry for them, as it often ends up as a traumatic and possibly expensive learning lesson....or it looked that way for the silver saloon nose into the ditch opposite the Woodman pub after obviously not negotiating the turning at an appropriate speed.
Lovin the Leggy!
Jackie and me stayed out at a local hotel last night due to no cabs being available
We set off this morning to go home and found our neighbours clearing their drive
Stopping in the road outside they told us of the problems getting on the driveways due to the slope of the road that the other neighbours had been having.
After exchanging pleasantries we moved off to our drive, selected manual dccd and lock mode, then revised into our drive as if nothing had happened
Nice to see them all shovelling their drives clear for tomorrow whereas we have stayed indoors
I love my awd
We set off this morning to go home and found our neighbours clearing their drive
Stopping in the road outside they told us of the problems getting on the driveways due to the slope of the road that the other neighbours had been having.
After exchanging pleasantries we moved off to our drive, selected manual dccd and lock mode, then revised into our drive as if nothing had happened
Nice to see them all shovelling their drives clear for tomorrow whereas we have stayed indoors
I love my awd
Got to the hill to be confronted by a stationary queue of traffic, some with hazards flashing, blocking both of the lanes up the hill. Nowhere to turn around and traffic accumulating behind we sat for five minutes whilst nothing moved.
I then engaged 4 wheel drive low, drove up the kerb onto the grass verge, and felt only the slightest pang of guilt as I effortlessly went around various luxury vehicles of a german rear wheel drive persuasion
Rest of the journey was undramatic, and ended following a classic turbo wagon up the hill to my house.
Thanks to Maggs for the General Grabber winter compounds
Thanks to me for having, and choosing to use, the appropriate equipment when heading out into forecast snow
06 February 2012, 08:23 AM
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Jackie and me stayed out at a local hotel last night due to no cabs being available
We set off this morning to go home and found our neighbours clearing their drive
Stopping in the road outside they told us of the problems getting on the driveways due to the slope of the road that the other neighbours had been having.
After exchanging pleasantries we moved off to our drive, selected manual dccd and lock mode, then revised into our drive as if nothing had happened
Nice to see them all shovelling their drives clear for tomorrow whereas we have stayed indoors
I love my awd
We set off this morning to go home and found our neighbours clearing their drive
Stopping in the road outside they told us of the problems getting on the driveways due to the slope of the road that the other neighbours had been having.
After exchanging pleasantries we moved off to our drive, selected manual dccd and lock mode, then revised into our drive as if nothing had happened
Nice to see them all shovelling their drives clear for tomorrow whereas we have stayed indoors
I love my awd
That would of made a great Subaru advert going up the drive with ease while the neighbours slip a disc shovelling snow
06 February 2012, 11:33 AM
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We was out in Northwood Sat night. Had a nice meal, drove our friends home to south Harefield, then chose to make our way back via the "Chalfont Straights".
Got to the hill to be confronted by a stationary queue of traffic, some with hazards flashing, blocking both of the lanes up the hill. Nowhere to turn around and traffic accumulating behind we sat for five minutes whilst nothing moved.
I then engaged 4 wheel drive low, drove up the kerb onto the grass verge, and felt only the slightest pang of guilt as I effortlessly went around various luxury vehicles of a german rear wheel drive persuasion
Rest of the journey was undramatic, and ended following a classic turbo wagon up the hill to my house.
Thanks to Maggs for the General Grabber winter compounds
Thanks to me for having, and choosing to use, the appropriate equipment when heading out into forecast snow
Got to the hill to be confronted by a stationary queue of traffic, some with hazards flashing, blocking both of the lanes up the hill. Nowhere to turn around and traffic accumulating behind we sat for five minutes whilst nothing moved.
I then engaged 4 wheel drive low, drove up the kerb onto the grass verge, and felt only the slightest pang of guilt as I effortlessly went around various luxury vehicles of a german rear wheel drive persuasion
Rest of the journey was undramatic, and ended following a classic turbo wagon up the hill to my house.
Thanks to Maggs for the General Grabber winter compounds
Thanks to me for having, and choosing to use, the appropriate equipment when heading out into forecast snow
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After a bit of skid racingss in Wembley stadium car park Saturday night
06 February 2012, 12:41 PM
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I was out ove the weekend making the most of the slippy stuff in my brat ..... epic epic epic car in the snow! Wide tarmac t1R's (wide for the brat anyway), a locked centre diff, and no weight on the back ..... good combo!
06 February 2012, 01:04 PM
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buckshot mudders ftw
yesterday i battled through the abandoned cars on ducks hill to go to the woods and ended up towing people out of the car park in the wagon i feel god like now and will be available for worship as of today 
but on a peckerhead note ,as i was puling people out i was stopping people from coming in as they would get stuck in their feeble golfs , alfas etc , they took no heed to my warnings looking at me as if i was talking jibberish. i chuckled as i ploughed out of the carpark leaving them trying to push their cars out fail
mags
ftw yesterday i battled through the abandoned cars on ducks hill to go to the woods and ended up towing people out of the car park in the wagon
i feel god like now and will be available for worship as of today but on a peckerhead note ,as i was puling people out i was stopping people from coming in as they would get stuck in their feeble golfs , alfas etc , they took no heed to my warnings looking at me as if i was talking jibberish. i chuckled as i ploughed out of the carpark leaving them trying to push their cars out
fail mags
06 February 2012, 01:09 PM
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buckshot mudders ftw
yesterday i battled through the abandoned cars on ducks hill to go to the woods and ended up towing people out of the car park in the wagon i feel god like now and will be available for worship as of today
but on a peckerhead note ,as i was puling people out i was stopping people from coming in as they would get stuck in their feeble golfs , alfas etc , they took no heed to my warnings looking at me as if i was talking jibberish. i chuckled as i ploughed out of the carpark leaving them trying to push their cars out fail
mags
ftw yesterday i battled through the abandoned cars on ducks hill to go to the woods and ended up towing people out of the car park in the wagon
i feel god like now and will be available for worship as of today but on a peckerhead note ,as i was puling people out i was stopping people from coming in as they would get stuck in their feeble golfs , alfas etc , they took no heed to my warnings looking at me as if i was talking jibberish. i chuckled as i ploughed out of the carpark leaving them trying to push their cars out
fail mags