Hills, snow and ice

hubert_cumberdale

this guy was in an X5 i didnt ask if he was alright as he was standing up and i didnt really care lol

shame he totalled his nice expensive car but i supoose it just means i will have to pay more next year for my insurance

these new sporty 4x4 are complete rubbish in the snow anyway they are about as much use off road as a hamster ball. the tires are far to wide and they are too low so they ground on stuff and lose grip

old style land rover all the way

Wig

Paradigm wrote: »

Don't forget that for many this will be thier 1st experience of driving in snow... it's not a skill we are born with!

No, but for a lot of us it is common sense.

I was going to make a thread on the same topic, why do these idiots drive so slowly up hill? I have to puposefully hold back and allow them to get far ahead of me already at least half way up the hill. then I increase my speed and power up the hill and catch them up on the crescent.

If you slip going up hill there's not very much that can go wrong, just keep going, and you will find it a lot easier if you have some good momentum to begin with. Go as slow as you like down hill, but !!!!!! speed up when you go up hill.

flyingscotno1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npdwQhWyBFo

4 minutes in X6 via Land Rover :rotfl:

Wig

cubegame wrote: »

None of us was no going anywhere and the reason for the hours delay became apparent. Most people are foolish tools who can't drive or who are scared of driving so shouldn't bother.

So what happened next? How did you get out of there? and did you say anything to the !!!!!! behind you? Like "Now you see why I wanted to give him some room before I went up the hill"

Emmylou_2

My garage is half way up a sloped entry, which is just wide enough for the car with a bit to spare. Even when it's dry, I go all the way up, turn round on the flat bit, and come down and into the garage, so I can reverse back out and be pointing down the hill, and so don't have to reverse onto the snow. If the door is shut, I stop level with it on the way up, and then just come back down and in...

Went out this morning to drop flatmate at work, and do the food shopping, and left the garage door open so I didn't have to stop on the slope (had to get OH to rescue me on Saturday when I lost grip - he has more snow driving experience than me) to open it, but when I'd got back someone had shut the garage door. Shouted and screamed at OH on the phone from wedged against the wall almost back on the road (he was still in bed apparently) but he was wonderful and rescued me, even though he wasn't the one who'd done wrong.

This evening, picking flatmate up from work and getting cat supplies, left the door open, no one shut it, and in high gear with steady revs I got up without an issue.

I'm actually planning routes that avoid hills wherever possible, unless they're bus routes. Being in Bristol, this is a bit of a pain!

sickofusernames

I'm doing some multi-drops for a well known company at the moment, residential mainly and the incompetence and lack of etiquette when it comes to hills in snow is shocking.

I did one drop and had to climb an incline, the van is pretty good but was slightly struggling to get up. Along comes an older guy down the hill in a Pug 106 I think, now I can't get past him but he could pull in to one of two spaces either side of of me to let me past. Ok, the spaces were about 3 inches deep in snow but considering he would be able to get out of it going downhill if I passed him was lost on his driving skills - or just couldn't be bothered! Anyway I ended up reversing all the way back down the road, only to find another clueless guy almost up my backside wondering what I was doing - duh...

I need to finish this temporary multi-drop job as it'll give me a heart attack.

darich

flyingscotno1 wrote: »

Do what this guy does. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR6QPi-6u5k

When there are 2 clear lanes, pick the snowed over one to drive at speed in.

So lucky nobody was alongside and everyone appears to stop in time! :eek:

Oh and if you have speakers he does give a wee swear at impact if your boss is around.

Classic clip.
I don't know which is more stupid - the fact that he was driving at speed in the snow covered lane and crashed......or that after he crashed, he didn't even check his car was ok and safe to carry on in THE SAME LANE as before!!!!

Some people shouldn't be allowed out.

mikey72

darich wrote: »

Classic clip.
I don't know which is more stupid - the fact that he was driving at speed in the snow covered lane and crashed......or that after he crashed, he didn't even check his car was ok and safe to carry on in THE SAME LANE as before!!!!

Some people shouldn't be allowed out.

I'm more puzzled as to why he posted it.

Lum

This clip of an icy hill cracked me up, well worth a watch. Excellent choice of music too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXFZMGddENA

marlot

The numpties don't just drive 4x4s, though there does seem to be a strong correlation between having the money to buy a pimp-mobile X5 and having no common sense.

I drive a 4x4 on all season (snowflake marked) tyres - and am stunned by the number of cars of all types who continually tailgate me in all weathers - but that they don't allow more distance in the wet and ice. I'm also stunned that people don't realise that on a hill the person going downhill should always give way to the person going uphill (the person going down can always get started again).