Sorry Marty but you picked the wrong month to come to Yorkshire!
Not me!
Nearly stacked the other halfs car multiple times just trying to get out of the drive into the lane. A P38, even on quality M&S tyres with 12mm tread, on a compressed snow transverse and downhill sloped drive with walls only 500mm either side is just a 2T dead weight that wants to slide sideways and downhill until stopped by the scenery.
Large quantity of rock salt required before I could even get it (shamefacedly) back into the drive.
Not had quite as much here (yet, we're due for the worst on Saturday) but it's been a little boring really. I blame Clive for recommending the Vredenstein Quadtrac tyres, they certainly stick. Couldn't even get the ABS to kick in.......
I took the other halfs car out, fancied a few hand brake turns at 5 am before the,
I can't drive in snow crew came out and ruined things 😀
Both the Jeep and Range Rover are on Grabbers and they're loving the snow so far :) I couldn't resist a little V8/opposite lock action as I left the work carpark today :)
I pulled one of those big Renault Trafic pickups out of a deep snowdrift at the end of my road earlier. Daft bugger had no weight over the back axle...
I left home at 745am to take the other half to a hospital appointment in Lincoln. There had been NO gritting done around here and the old girl was in her element! All the way to Lincoln and back without a mishap. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I dropped her home, which is two miles from me. As I drove home, I approached a right angled bend which I take slowly in good weather let alone snow. I slowed to 15-20mph, turned the steering wheel to the right and went straight on :(. Straight into a fukking hedge!! Only the sodding hedge had a big post in the middle of it. Took it straight to our local repair shop and the quote is for £2700.43. Mine has the 'Stormer' body kit. Well, it did have. Luckily they said the damage is all superficial but I am truly gutted.
Get on the net and start searching the breakers, someone might have all the stuff you need, you might even be lucky with the colour, sounds like it's all bolt on stuff
Just a straightforward insurance job Shep?
I'm with Hastings, OB. Phoned them up and it's booked in for Monday assuming they can get the parts in. Sorry Chris, but I'm putting it through the insurance and no way am I trawling breakers yards. I'm just so pissed because I know it's my fault and after doing a 70 miles round trip in shite conditions, I had switched off.
It'll buff out...
Seriously, it'll come back looking better than it was before. Soon you'll be obsessing about the first stone chip on your new bumper :)
The big question is, what are they going to give you as a courtesy car while yours is being repaired? I doubt the new owner of your old P38 would want to lose it and I'd lend you the Ascot if it wasn't already out on loan to my boss after his Discovery 3 died on him......
We'be had a full 6 inches of snow here and it's still going.
Went out for a drive yesterday and reached a roundabout with the first exit blocked with traffic. I indicated right to take the next (clear) exit and some moron just pulled across in front of me to completely block the roundabout. Sat there staring daggers at the idiot for a good 5 minutes before taking an alternative route. No problem for the P38, round them and up the sloped side of the roundabout and on my way!
Continental something or other on the front and Landsail something or other else on the back. There's no stopping the P38!
I'm having no fun working outside most of the time in the snow :-( When does spring start? Lol.
Lpgc wrote:
When does spring start? Lol.
Apparently, today is the first day of Spring in the meterological calendar :)
Sorry about your bender OS56, - at least you were were in a RR..
Thanks for your (apparently) life-size picture of a tape measure in snow RutlandRover. I noticed a few nutters on the roads myself today, a couple who pulled out suddenly seemed to think a 2-ton P38 can't slide on ice... Unbelievably one was a "Smart-Car" (albeit with a 'dopey-driver'). Barmy and very close both times... Drive carefully everyone - many folks these days seem to get too blasé too quickly although the bad conditions remain....
Skid pan training should be part of the Driving Test....
davew wrote:
Sorry about your bender OS56, - at least you were were in a RR..
Thanks for your (apparently) life-size picture of a tape measure in snow RutlandRover.
Sorry about that...I'm not really sure what happened. I'm sure the system usually scales such things to fit properly.
RutlandRover wrote:
davew wrote:
Thanks for your (apparently) life-size picture of a tape measure in snow RutlandRover.Sorry about that...I'm not really sure what happened. I'm sure the system usually scales such things to fit properly.
It wasn't a complaint R-R it was a thank-you for a reminder to watch out on the roads; More of it expected 'darn sarf' today too....
Been great fun - although I spent nearly 3 hours on a motorway junction before getting to the problem - no one could get up the slight hill coming off said junction. I stopped to try and help some people as I've got a tow rope that I think could pull the moon down to earth.. but..
how in the hell do people either not know where their towing eye is, or lose it? I could only help a few people out before I said sod it and just went home.
Sorry to hear about the mishap OS.
No snow here. We had some Monday and SWMBO drove me to Warrington in the quattro TT, she was sliding everywhere, it was quite funny.