Snow Joke Losing It
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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.
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Originally Posted by automodellistagt
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round here anythign above 2.5k and its starts to lose traction, even more woried about you on effectively cut slicks!
round here anythign above 2.5k and its starts to lose traction, even more woried about you on effectively cut slicks!
Hope the rest of your winter is incident free!
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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
PS winter tyres not snow tyres!!!!!
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
PS winter tyres not snow tyres!!!!!
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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.
On hols, those snow covered twisty mountain roads were awesome!! I even own a set of snow chains now!
Nige.
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Originally Posted by v8voodoo
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.
On hols, those snow covered twisty mountain roads were awesome!! I even own a set of snow chains now!
Nige.
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
Actually the bit about causing accidents is all a lie but I am bored
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Damaged my 18" alloy a little today, ice and speed dont mix
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v24/V5MAN/ouch2.jpg
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v24/V5MAN/ouch2.jpg
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Originally Posted by v8voodoo
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.
On hols, those snow covered twisty mountain roads were awesome!! I even own a set of snow chains now!
Nige.
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!
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...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.
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.
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Originally Posted by pappasmurf
...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.
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.
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
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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
hope to have anot..her scoob soon
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