Slipperyness - What will you be driving this winter?

[Peter C]

Daily winter hack:

 

 

Alternative winter car, which coped well with the snow earlier this year:

 

[Tartan58]

Going to be the first winter for the Mondeo wagon, hopefully won't be too bad although it is on 17s which might not be so good.

Best car I had in the snow was a Mini on 145 tyres, was unstopable (in both senses of the word!)

 

Have to admire the heros on here driving their autoshite every day all year, makes me feel a bit of a fraud!

[Tayne]

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[ProgRocker]

This - but only when absolutely necessary:

 

 

Having written off my old SEAT ibiza in the snow last December, I'm going to be VERY careful with this one.

[dieselnutjob]

Peugeot 607 diesel automatic with winter tyres.

It would be great if they weren't 225 wide. Maybe one day I'll stumble upon some narrow steel wheels for it but I'm not sure such a thing was ever made.

Oh and it has heated seats

[mk1_4dr]

Im hoping to be using escRot, however, with its need for some fresh metal letting in before MOT time I'll just carry on using the K10.

 

 

[Tonka]

I will mostly be driving this with the auto-box in snow mode and the 4wd diff lock engaged in 50/50 mode if it gets a bit much....

 

 

My wife however will be experiencing rear wheel drive in the winter for the first time ever since she passed her test in this..............she has snow mode on hers but even though it's got the baby engine it still feels like it could break away without much effort which means she will probably nick the keys for the Stagea every morning..................

 

[dollywobbler]

2CV or BX. Both are insanely good in snow. Feeble power, skinny tyres, lots of weight over the driven wheels. Sorted.

[aled]

this

[Lord Sterling]

Hopefulyl my K11 micra, skinny tyres and all that. I remember a few years ago when I went to Merry Hill centre, it was fine if a little cold on the way in, soon as I'd finished the place was blanketed with snow. The-then quickest way out for me was up Pedmore dual carriageway heading towards Stourbridge, it was funny to see Mondeos and BMWs struggle up the slight incline while my Micra easily soldiered up the hill.

 

Earlier this year when we had bad snow my '87 Rover Sterling performed surprisingly well for a miserable old car, like the Micra it soldiered through the snow, it even managed a pretty steep hill (short cut from Old Hill) without too much trouble. I only wish it was still working

[HillmanImp]

this

 

You see, this reminds me why I need to get my Imp finished. Ideal for that kind of weather. I said that last year and once again have spent most of the summer pissed just looking at the Imp when i am having a fag in the garage after getting back from the pub.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

 

The most pathetic amount of snow in this picture Have to fix the demister before braving the winter this year.

[ChinaTom]

 

It owes me another 2 years now given the bills I have just paid out on it.

[seth]

 

[gtd2000]

Well I have a choice of RWD in the shape of a 1995 Nissan 240SX:

 

 

And if the weather gets way too extreme and calls for AWD I can drive this 2005 Saab 9-2X (Saabaru) as well

 

 

Mind you I'm not sure exactly how much snow we will get here in Sarasota, FL between now and January 2001?

 

Could be tricky getting traction over the winter here

[Tayne]

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[Tayne]

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[gtd2000]

 

Mind you I'm not sure exactly how much snow we will get here in Sarasota, FL between now and January 2001?

 

Seems you've also got a Delorean...

 

That'll be our secret...

[red5]

 

This mostly. I fully expect my average speed to work to rise slightly in the snow.

[nigel bickle]

Yugo 45-hopefully to be collected Tuesday...

[M'coli]

Yugo 45-hopefully to be collected Tuesday...

Now you're just showing off...!!!

[VWPowered]

im staying in

[michiel]

My bicycle mostly, obeying Taynes MEN points 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7.

[barrett]

if all things go to plan, hopefully one of these

[dieselnutjob]

5. Arrive at the work car park at a much higher speed than usual to enable a high speed handbrake turn. If possible blow the horn to alert other men to your feat of machismo.

6. Realise that you were going to fast for the conditions.

7. Exit the vehicle and inspect damage to your car, other cars you have collided with as well as damage to curbs/bollards/bystanders.

 

Years ago I flew into a sheet ice car park at work. Cranked over the steering wheel to full lock but due to highly excessive speed I just went straight on with the most fantastic piece of understeer ever seen. Eventually I stopped on the other side of the car park with a traffic cone wdged underneath the car.

 

When I got up to my desk my colleagues were all laughing their arses off as most of them had been looking out of the window that overlooked the carpark.

[pandamonium]

This is the sticker on the back of my car!

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

Frontera image

 

This mostly. I fully expect my average speed to work to rise slightly in the snow.

 

Selectable 4x4 off roaders are fuck awful in the snow on public roads at regular speeds, it's often safer to leave them in 2WD due to the extreme understeer.

[Albert Ross]

True enough. Drove mine with a broken Freewheel hub for 2 days until I relaised what the loud clicking noise on full lock was..... I just bolted a standard locked drive flange on. It's still there.... I must get round to sorting it out I guess.

[Richard]

I'll be driving this.

 

DSC_7602 by RichardB5, on Flickr

 

Unless it snows, in which case I'll be stuck in the drive for two bastard months again. If it looks like being a snowy winter I'll buy a pair of alloys to put snow tyres on.

[cobblers]

I'll be driving an MX5 with 9" wide wheels and summer tyres.

I say driving, but at the first hint of snow I'll mostly be just shaking my head at it as I walk past it on the drive on my walk to the petrol station at the top of the road for 8 cans of Carslberg and some Lynx Africa.