OMG SNO KAOS - pics or stories?

[ProgRocker]

First time for a few years that I have had to drive in the snow so I was a bit apprehensive. Haven't used the car since Saturday morning.

Engine started straight away. Took around 15 minutes to clear the snow off. Wipers were frozen to the glass. Managed to get to work with 15 minutes to spare. Success. 😎 I have all season tyres so that helped.

Edited January 5 by ProgRocker
Correcting awful grammar

[barrett]

Quite a surprise to see snow this morning. I wish this car had a working heater

[Stinkwheel]

7 minutes ago, barrett said:

Quite a surprise to see snow this morning. I wish this car had a working heater

Shame DS heaters are really good usually, is it a big fix?

[Imhotep]

Toyota is dreadful in the snow, MG awaiting new brakes. Both cars fired up happily (albeit a bit slowly for the Toyota), but if I don’t need to go anywhere…

[davehedgehog31]

Despite it getting down to about -8 last night, we have entirely avoided any snow this winter.

The Bini is making an excellent winter car thanks to it's magnificent thermal inefficiency, screen is clear in no time and heater toasty hot. Grip levels excellent in these low temperatures courtesy of the Goodyear all season tyres.

[JJ0063]

Woke up to more today too, looks like it came down just after 2am:

 

[Metal Guru]

Two 4WD cars with winter or 4 season tyres, but no snow. 

[barrett]

1 hour ago, Stinkwheel said:

Shame DS heaters are really good usually, is it a big fix?

No idea, you'd have to ask @Three Speed. I think some of it was disconnected on purpose because it interfered with the radio, but no idea if the heater blower itself even works. Probably should have looked into it before the temperature dropped...

[Volksy]

Light sprinkles this morning in Bratfud.

Was b*stard freezing waiting for the train.

 

[Three Speed]

@barrett From memory the blower motor works - and I think I also threw in another blower (just because I had one, not because it needed it). I do remember the radio feed came from the warm air blower switch and this did cause interference. But I also think the switch was not working- wouldn’t switch off. So I think I just disconnected the fan and left the connection powering the radio. The heater element is quite new and came with a new water valve but it is pathetically small compared to cars that have good heaters. Make sure the water valve is open and that the air ducts are connected - particularly where the big air duct fits into the blower housing.

Or - big coat and gloves.

Great to see the car doing its job!

[Tayne]

It’s just stopped snowing so I’m going to clear the paths and dust of the car.

 

[barrett]

3 hours ago, Three Speed said:

@barrett From memory the blower motor works - and I think I also threw in another blower (just because I had one, not because it needed it). I do remember the radio feed came from the warm air blower switch and this did cause interference. But I also think the switch was not working- wouldn’t switch off. So I think I just disconnected the fan and left the connection powering the radio. The heater element is quite new and came with a new water valve but it is pathetically small compared to cars that have good heaters. Make sure the water valve is open and that the air ducts are connected - particularly where the big air duct fits into the blower housing.

Or - big coat and gloves.

Great to see the car doing its job!

Had a fiddle and I  think I've got some sort of blowing action now. Will have to see if it actually gets any hot air in the cabin later as it does take ages to warm up in this sort of weather. It's my only working car at present so it's been roped in for commuting duties until I can get my 206 sorted at the end of this week... 

[captain_70s]

Hardly anything here.

@juular's 240 looks at home in it at least.

[yes oui si]

7 hours ago, barrett said:

Quite a surprise to see snow this morning. I wish this car had a working heater

Absolutely beautiful photo!

7 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Two 4WD cars with winter or 4 season tyres, but no snow. 

Are you quite low down? The hills are packed.

[loserone]

13 minutes ago, yes oui si said:

Absolutely beautiful photo!

Are you quite low down? The hills are packed.

These hills aren't.  Nothing for a week in the north pennines

[Metal Guru]

42 minutes ago, loserone said:

These hills aren't.  Nothing for a week in the north pennines

I think the snow was down the east coast in the Borders / NE  England so the further inland /west the less snow there is.

[EyesWeldedShut]

Went out on the quad about 4pm -turn right out the gate and climb for about a mile and you get this view. Absolutely stunning evening but very cold, it was  about -7 or so up there and we have a clear night now.
If you go the other way, turn left out the gate down the hill, after about the same distance normality is achieved -  gritted tarmac and suchlike posh stuff. 

We both work from home now so it's no big deal to be stuck - in the past we'd have left a car down in the village and hoofed it/quad taxi home. Maybe just two days a year (on average) so it's not like we're in Antarctica.

[danthecapriman]

We had a dusting of snow here last night. Not a huge amount but enough to nicely cover everything.

I was reading the weather earlier and they’re saying it’s going to be cold, then on Friday there’s a good chance of winds and another dumping of snow. 
If it will or not??? They’re almost always wrong. My bet is for the wind but the snow being rain instead!

[Marina door handles]

Snow in Cheshire and Staffordshire today.

It made travelling from my little village of Audlem to Stoke on Trout a bit slow going this morning and not too much fun coming back....

The Freelander with its 4wd and actual winter tyres was definitely the right car for the job...

Snow at work #Not my Jimny

 

 

[Stinkwheel]

4 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Maybe just two days a year (on average) so it's not like we're in Antarctica.

It just feels like Antarctica 

I don’t think I’ve ever seen minus 8 before 

[Wibble]

20 minutes ago, Stinkwheel said:

It just feels like Antarctica 

I don’t think I’ve ever seen minus 8 before 

I remember a Christmas in the mid nineties, we were with my parents in Renfrewshire and it snowed heavily. All our cars said -26. It didn’t feel colder than -1, things just froze quicker. Don’t know how accurate they were, of course but, when we left, we couldn’t buy diesel until we got to Gretna and my Rover 418SLD Turbo was surging all the way, with the fuel waxing up. Not a pleasant drive home.

[Tayne]

1 hour ago, Stinkwheel said:

It just feels like Antarctica 

I don’t think I’ve ever seen minus 8 before 

It was very cold back in January 2010, I remember arriving at work one day and having a discussion with colleagues about how cold it was. Various car displays had shown -17 to -19.5, it didn’t quite get down to minus 20.

 

 

 

 

But if we’re talking about outwith Scotland…

It was -10c during the day in Chicago when I was there in December 2007 and I saw -14 in Sweden in December 2023. I had some delays getting back as the plane had a frozen engine and a frozen toilet.

[Metal Guru]

51 minutes ago, Wibble said:

I remember a Christmas in the mid nineties, we were with my parents in Renfrewshire and it snowed heavily. All our cars said -26. It didn’t feel colder than -1, things just froze quicker. Don’t know how accurate they were, of course but, when we left, we couldn’t buy diesel until we got to Gretna and my Rover 418SLD Turbo was surging all the way, with the fuel waxing up. Not a pleasant drive home.

That was probably Xmas 1995. (My son was born in Jan 96, so I remember  it well). Being Christmas the fridge was full, so I  put  some wine on the back door step and it froze solid in a couple of hours. 

[Wibble]

21 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

That was probably Xmas 1995. (My son was born in Jan 96, so I remember  it well). Being Christmas the fridge was full, so I  put  some wine on the back door step and it froze solid in a couple of hours. 

I think it was later. The car was a ‘94 on an L plate and I bought it at 2 years old, so must have been 98/99? I remember plenty of hard shoulder stops to clear the screen and helping others too. I’d filled a pump spray with warm screen wash before we left.

[Wibble]

3 minutes ago, Wibble said:

I think it was later. The car was a ‘94 on an L plate and I bought it at 2 years old, so must have been 98/99? I remember plenty of hard shoulder stops to clear the screen and helping others too. I’d filled a pump spray with warm screen wash before we left.

Scrub that, it can’t have been, I part Ex’d it for the senator in ‘98, so must have been Christmas ‘97.

[Boycie]

12 hours ago, captain_70s said:

Hardly anything here.

@juular's 240 looks at home in it at least.

Heated seats as well , the company Enyaq has heated seats AND steering  wheel , doesn't effect the battery but as soon as the heaters on I loose 50 miles off the range 

[Lanciaman]

A light dusting here in aberdeenshire

[delux]

 

No sno here but sea looks a bit choppy. Dropped down to 14c last night! 😄

[ProgRocker]

Today's journey to work was awful. The outer ring road to the north of Norwich was chock-a-block. Was it today that the schools officially opened?

I should have picked an alternative route . Wiser after the event, eh? 20 minutes late to work so I'll have to stay back 20 mins. Although others were equally  affected. 

[myglaren]