snow warning

cyclonebri1

Inactive wrote: »

That would be when it wasn't broken down.;)

BTW, I'm glad you are OK.;)

TBH you struggled to tell if that thing was broken down or not;). One day a plug lead fell off at the bottom of our hill, took junior 20mins to do the 1 mile home chugging along on the 1 remaining cylinder.:o

Having said that bought for £100 and sold for £250 a year later so not all bad :money:

skiddlydiddly

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Went out the day after I mentioned and got stuck on a steep narrow lane, did exactly the same but I find it works best in 1st, gets you round quicker;);). Even more interesting when it's too narrow for a 3 or 33 point turn and a ditch one side and hedge the other:eek:.

No fun today, we had a genuine 15" of snow here last night, never seen that since the early 80's. Nothing but nothing has shifted

Had about a foot or so here, most I have seen since my yoof.I even had to walk to work for the 1st time ever as my car just ground out on the snow so couldn't even get to the road.
Expecting another foot tonight so it should be up to the windows .

bigjl

My parents house is on a hill in a small development of ten houses and I was taught that FWD can get up snowy hills easier, sometimes the only way my dad could get his Volvo 340 up the hill was to reverse it.

I should point out that this was Scotland and we got heavy snow every year, even snowed in May once! In about 1982/3.

From what I saw in London last year it was always RWD cars that had the trouble.

Perhaps not from lack of grip but due to the pendulum effect, the rear spins up and the back slides with the camber of the road or just down hill if going across a gradient.

I have never got stuck in a FWD car, or RWD either actually.

My opinion and how I was taught when learning to drive was driven wheels first up the slope.

Works for me, works for everybody in my home town, where snows falls in large amounts every year and it never grinds to a halt.

Personally I will just stick to what I know.

Lum

bigjl wrote: »

From what I saw in London last year it was always RWD cars that had the trouble.

Perhaps not from lack of grip but due to the pendulum effect, the rear spins up and the back slides with the camber of the road or just down hill if going across a gradient.

The reason RWD cars in London have so many problems in the snow is that most of them are fitted with a substandard nut behind the wheel. If this nut is replaced with a better one then the problems disappear.

cyclonebri1

bigjl wrote: »

My parents house is on a hill in a small development of ten houses and I was taught that FWD can get up snowy hills easier, sometimes the only way my dad could get his Volvo 340 up the hill was to reverse it.

I should point out that this was Scotland and we got heavy snow every year, even snowed in May once! In about 1982/3.

From what I saw in London last year it was always RWD cars that had the trouble.

Perhaps not from lack of grip but due to the pendulum effect, the rear spins up and the back slides with the camber of the road or just down hill if going across a gradient.

I have never got stuck in a FWD car, or RWD either actually.

My opinion and how I was taught when learning to drive was driven wheels first up the slope.

Works for me, works for everybody in my home town, where snows falls in large amounts every year and it never grinds to a halt.

Personally I will just stick to what I know.

Without trying to be smart you do need to try it, the method I've outlined really is best, suck it and see;););)

To add; why it works is because as the incline/angle increases so does the load on the rear wheels, whichever way the car is going.
Guess what happens to the FWD car going forward uphill??? sorry if thats condescending

Lum

So this is one area where 4WD is actually useful then

sunshinetours

Many rear wheel drive years ago didn't also have 250+ bhp and 18" + low profile tyres. I don't care who you are you will not defy the laws of physics. Hence the !new world " ( in the UK anyway) of winter tyres

jayme1

subaru impreza with low range, stickier on the road than fly paper in a vat of super glue.

Lum

jayme1 wrote: »

subaru impreza with low range, stickier on the road than fly paper in a vat of super glue.

Far too many WRX drivers think that, even in the summer, and they go on thinking it until just before they land on their roof in some farmer's field. (Not saying this is you. I don't think they ever made a WRX with a low range transfer box)

Not sure low range would be particularly helpful trying to get moving in the snow, however. Aren't you supposed to use higher gears?

maxheadroom

Low range, 1st

Slowly let clutch out, keep right foot off both pedals. Crawls forwards lovely. Then once moving back to high range a high a gear as possible.

If you touch the accelerator in low range the is just too much and all four wheels spinning.

Just wish you could lock the diffs on them, not tried one with the Limited slip rear but guess its better in that regard

(Subaru Forester on winter rubber)