Dave T-S

Fosters
Yes ABS is essentially super fast cadence braking except I can see snow on the road and the ABS sensors can't. A wedge of snow builds up under the front tyres and ABS locks the brakes solid when you brake. They don't pulse. It's either all or nothing then which isn't as effective as doing it manually.

PIAA - Drive lamps AND headlamp bulbs. Good for d1ckhead therapy

sunilp

Here's how the story goes,

Leave my house at 8am to head from home in Croydon to work in Epsom.

1) Get to the bottom of my road and need to turn right across two way main road (Green Lane). Nearest lane clear, pull out halfway. Wait for guy in a Cavalier to go as he doesnt stop to let me out in front of him, he was driving slowly. Lane clear so pull out and keep good distance behind Cavalier, continue down Green Lane. Get to the bend on the T Heath/Norbury border and some **** in a old Granada coming the other way spins 360 into the Cav's oncoming path!....Cav gets hit and ends up in someones front garden. Guy behind the Granada has to come into my (opposite flow) lane to avoid hitting the now stationary Granada, at the same time, i have to manouvere around the Cav and Granada.....we ALMOST collide but luckily we were both going slow enough and far enough back not to......i do not stop and continue on my journey albeit slightly shaken!. See side of Cav all smashed up very badly and Granada front end is very bent. Thank the Lord that the Cavalier didnt let me out in front of him earlier on as that would have been my car and not his!

2)Get down to the end of Green Lane and turn left onto London Road, sitting happily at a pedestrian crossing on red when on the other side of the road the poor girl in the MGF Cabrio gets shunted by a Mondeo who couldnt stop quick enough on a clear main road!!

3) Decide that i am going back home so need to go back round in a full circle (decide not to turn round and head back up Green Lane in 1) above given the incident that just happened). So i turn left off London Road into Bridgstock Rd, some woman in a Rover is driving too close behind me for comfort, decide to show her my brake lights and a select few hand gestures to indicate to her that i do not wish to get so intimate.....she realises and backs off.

4) Turn left at T Heath Tescos to head back the other way down Parchmore Road (other end to 1) above). Sensible guy in XR2 behind me keeps well back. Going down to the junction of Green Lane and can see a woman rapidly approaching a junction on the opposite side of the road, i reduce right down to almost stationary, she brakes too hard and skids and slides right out across both lanes and into my path.....then sits there ****ting her load. Luckily i have managed to stop safely and so has the guy behind. Manouvere round her and get to the bottom of my road, luckily no one coming down it the other way (given the speeds i've seen them do it this morning )

5) Turn into my drive and decide that work can go to hell, i aint going in having almost had my car smashed up twice by ***** who cant drive!

See, doesnt mattter how good your Scooby is or how careful a driver you are because there are too many other ****ing idiots on the road.

These roads were all gritted last night and are main roads.!

Be safe

Sunil

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Skippy

Sounds an intresting trip, dam sham you didn't make it to work, sure you'll find something to do !!! I'll swap you, I'm sitting at work, nee hassle getting here, bored out my skull !!! Guess some work will have to be done.

Skippy.

sunilp

Looks like i'll have to get the old PS2 out and do some Silent Scope and imagine the targets were all the idiots on the roads this morning!

Matt Churchill

Hear, hear Sunil.

Managed to get to work this morning, but only after spinning three times on a deserted road, just putting it into second gear, and only doing about 20mph. AWD or no AWD, 200+bhp is just too much for the snow.

Stay at home.

Matt

Gerg2

I guess it doesnt click in some peoples brains that they should drive to suit the conditions

Well done for getting out of it unscathed.

dowser

Get winter tyres! Gee, you guys - half an inch of snow and the whole country stops

Say's the idiot in Switzerland who hasn't even seen snow so far this year....but has put up with winter-tyre-stylee handling compromises for 6 weeks so far

Be safe
Richard

sunilp

duplicated post

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sunilp

Richard, its not us, its the other mere mortal ***** who cause the problems

I am sure if we had snow here more of the time then driver skills would be more suited
but it wouldnt remove the ***** altogether

Sunil

harj

Just got to the office in Watford, I had to travel from Daventry . Great weather though as my Focus was all front wheel toque spinning

Anyway get to the office to find out that bloody Mastercard have cancelled my meeting due to bad weather and they only had to travel 10 miles

Oh well least ive got a nice drive home in the snow so im gonna make the most of it, should have brought the 22B now. DO'H

Drive Safe

Harj....

dowser

Know what you mean Sunil - even here where everyone uses winter tyres, they just drive faster!

Complete sh*te - the tyres give better grip in snow as long as you stay within their limits. Once locked up they may as well be slicks!

I'm the slowest on the road when it's snowing, but it's amazing how often I'll pass them facing the wrong way later

Richard

chuckster

I tried the car this morning, 235 tyres and 280BHP don't mix with snow, did a few spins in the supermarket carpark just for kicks, went home and caught the train.
So, I made it to work, and my son's in the park on his sled, bugger .
Chuck

ARRON BIRD

Grafham Water car park stage completed :

Stef

It makes you realise that low profiles really are poo in the snow and AWD means nothing without the right tyres, all you get is four spinning wheels instead of two! Great fun though!
Is there a way to disable ABS though? I hate it in the snow, it's like having no brakes at all.

Stef.

sunilp

Chandler,

No i was not going to stop because

1) The bloke did not let me out earlier on (not a valid reason but i do hold grudges)

2) He looked ok (i.e he wasnt slumped unconcious over his steering wheel, neither was his head poking out of his windscreen)

3) Couple 2) with the fact that the road conditions would not allow me to stop nearby anyhow (long bend with parked cars all along)

4) There were several pedestrians who could also act as witnesses

5) I did not want my car shunted by some rubber-necker.

Thank you very much but, on this one occasion, i'm looking out for me and me only.

Sunil the Selfish Subaru Snob (but i still dont hate boy racers)

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Fosters

I had such a good laugh coming into work today (weybridge inside the m25 to bracknell)

fair bit of hold up, but there was enough 'entertainment' to keep me happy. The highlights...

escort cossie sitting at 30 degrees up a roundabout - didn't look as if he turned at all!

guy in a hyundai coming the other way doing walking pace, face to the windscreen looking well scared steering left, right, left right, left, right, etc...

novas and fiestas zipping past me like it's just wet.

lorries not being able to get up hills

bracknell was empty though, so I got to have a play round the wide roads

Adam M

Have to agre about the ***** on the road.

Most upset this morning.

Driving along a gritted A41 dual carriageway on the way to work, I decided to change lanes in order to turn right at the up and coming roundabout. Even with grit there was still ice on the road so I thought sub 20mph would be okay. But no, the car thinks it wise to change ends (235s and 300bhp ( to chuck) do not mix). I manage to catch it and snake for a while but it scares the **** out of me.
I continue at around 15mph for the rest of my journey. Then some w*nker in a blue escort drives up my **** for the next two miles waving his hands gesturing very impolitely that I speed up!!! Curse the bloody 22B as there was no way he could see through my tinted rear window what my hand signals were in return.

You should have seen his face when I turned left down a road with no overtaking opportunities that he wanted to go down. Since it was a roundabout, I thought it better to do a 450 and let him go ahead.

Is it wrong to hope someone has a minor dink in order to teach them a lesson????

harj

I understand how you feel Adam, on the M1 this morning there were only 2 lanes and I was in the 2nd. I was doing 60 where as some other complete ****** were doing 80-90 in the Snow Some prat in a Vectra was on my backside for 3-4 miles and began to flash me until I let a HUGE artic in the 2nd lane and we were doing 50 for 10 miles

This bloke was also fuming cus I could have let him though but i chose to stay put, so many ***** on the roads in this weather!

sunilp

Adam,
Why didnt u gesture out of the drivers side window, thats what i did to the dear up my (cars) chuff
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Again, be careful everyone, just speaking to Chuck on chat who's colleagues wife put their Scooby into a kerb (awaiting recovery) and he (colleague) dropped his bike on the way to work

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Dave T-S

Croydon Wimp Boy.....

sunilp

Dont muppetise this and dont go and wrap your shopping trolley around a Essex Tree Stump either because you think youre too clever

Dave T-S

.....3" of snow on untreated roads at 06:30 - Mr Polo ******* behind decides he is faster than Carolyn and my Scoobs (probably true!!) - tailgates Carolyn for a while so she indicates to let him past then gives him 440w of Mr PIAA's finest. He catches me up next so I pull over and let him past and give him my 440w of PIAA for the next 1/4 mile - hee hee - silly I know but made me feel better (anyway serves him right cos his rear fog was blinding me).

Get up the road another 400 yds and can see his tyre tracks in the snow where he has gone into a downhill bend too fast, mounted the pavement, stopped 3 feet short of a house, reversed off and carried on!!

Get a bit further and looks like he has made two excursions up the roadside banks - when will they ever learn??

Per my suspicions standard REO10's are not a good tread pattern for snow.....

Dave T-S

Sunlip
Only joking about the Croydon Wimp Boy M8 - I like driving in snow when its deserted but wouldn't have swopped with you for the d1ckheads in Croydon this morning

Stef
I share your dislike of ABS in the snow - makes cadence braking more awkward too.

Fosters

Dave T-S, surely ABS is super fast Cadence braking?

do you have the PIAA lamps then?

Chris L

Couldn't agree more chaps - It was d*ckhead central out there this morning (see my post on the other 'snow' thread). Sunil don't know what it was like on your side of Croydon, but none of the roads were gritted around my way - it was a complete joke. I ain't leaving the house again until they have salted the roads..

Chris

Neil Smalley

After a ruling in the house of lords councils are no longer REQUIRED to grit and salt roads.

Chalk up another one for the common sense brigade

Dave T-S

Chris
Good plan M8 - so you're never going out again......

KF

>Per my suspicions standard REO10's are not >a good tread pattern for snow

So, picture this. I did Wetter the Better 2 weeks ago in anticipation of this fine weather. RE010's with reasonable tread left. Got the car started this morning, and went to go out. Untreated road with packed snow on right hand turn. Idle in first (could not go any slower), back steps out and hits kerb. First dint in the alloy. Turn around and go home for a sulk.

Now, the snow has partially melted and will freeze tonight. Be safe out there. Really, is the journey worth it?

KF.

Brendan Hughes

KF; with you on that one. Took mine out this morning, turned right at the end of my close onto hardpack, and slid and bounced off the kerb with both left wheels.

As I've only just got it back after two months, and one of those wheels is (was) brand new, my sulk was of particularly high intensity.

And for you lot on the other thread talking about sliding it round empty car parks; I am puce green with envy. None round here!

Still a bit miserable (but brightening up when I read of the stories of other loonies)...BJH