Snow Joke Losing It
 

Lost the car twice, this morning on lethal compacted snow, I was taking it easy. Anyway lucky enough did not hit any other cars, but kerbed one of my alloys, this is one of my pet hates. These are the MY05 alloys and deadly RE070's (on ice and compacted snow)tyres. Anyway does anybody know a place in Chelmsford to get it repaired?? It is just the lip adjacent to the tyre wall that is damaged. What do they charge roughly for repairs?? Any help appreciated.

PM on its way. Friend of mine in Witham (mobile) could sort it for you.

blimey!

round here anythign above 2.5k and its starts to lose traction, even more woried about you on effectively cut slicks!

Depending on what Scooby you have and what you've had done to it, it's probably starting to loose traction at 2500 as that's when the turbo starts to take hold and beef up your torque output, which is what'll cause the wheels to loose traction on a slipperly surface -you don't need to be pushing it for this to happen at all.

Hope the rest of your winter is incident free!

Regards,

I pulled out of a junction today and got the backend sideways down the main road just to show off to the boring plebs sitting in the traffic jam, dab on the throttle and pulled the front end round and shot off up the road, wicked fun! scoobys are excellent fun on hard compacted snow when you have winter tyres on all four wheels, I wouldn't use RE070s on a summers day let alone on snow or ice. Anyway can't wait for the journey home so I can play in the snow and watch all the 2 wheel drive cars sliding around.

You can't appreciate how much fun your scooby is in the snow with your summr tyres on, get a set of Nokian WR winter tyres and see what you are missing :D:D:D

PS winter tyres not snow tyres!!!!!

same here lost it smacked a kerb and damaged my pff-7 and a bottom arm £440 for parts ouch ???

I've still got my snow tyres on from my skiing hol kast week and I'm having great fun here in Dover...lol

On hols, those snow covered twisty mountain roads were awesome!! I even own a set of snow chains now!

Nige.

And what do you think of them?

I have never had an accident or come close to having and accident with mine fitted however I am sure that I have caused several accidents through poor choice of tyres made by other people, I know it is stupid but it is fun to poodle around like an old granny just to annoy the poor idiots that have 2 wheels drive cars, then when they try to overtake you just leave em standing :D

Actually the bit about causing accidents is all a lie but I am bored :D:D:D

Damaged my 18" alloy a little today, ice and speed dont mix:(

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v24/V5MAN/ouch2.jpg


Cliff

man that sucks

Ouch !!! Needs a bit more than 'Alloy Magic' mate !!

Snow tyres or winter tyres??? There's a big difference! For one, why would you fit snow chains to snow tyres? Thats the problem with the UK, when you talk about winter tyres, people think they are only for driving on snow and sub-zero temperatures!

A winter tyre is for all round winter conditions, for use in countries where the roads are usually not covered in snow. A snow tyre is for driving only on snow in places like northern Sweeden where there is snow on the roads for the whole winter.

You would never dream of fitting a snow tyre in the UK, but a winter tyre is very appropriate for normal UK wet and greasy winter driving conditions! Plus, on the odd occaision you do get snow, your much less likely to curb your alloys!

...just got back from a very cold and snowy Poland.
No such problems over there with sliding on compacted snow. In fact your average Pole shows great skill while driving at speed on snow.

we just don't get to practice on it enough.

Practice is part of it, but the biggest factor is tyres. Winter tyres outperform summer tyres (& particularly worn summer tyres) hugely in snow and ice. Stick virtually any 2WD car on good winter tyres and it will be far more capable of turning and stopping in the snow/ice than any Impreza with worn summer tyres.

This link used to work, but doesn't ATM. It's a good report which shows the relative performances of different tyre types in snow/ice, ABS on/off and with many different drivers.

http://www.stop.se/test/abstests.pdf

poor me ! ive just sold my scooby two weeks ago, now have the little old nova for playing in, so it does not matter about my rims...
hope to have anot..her scoob soon