Tips to move car out of snow

sunshinetours

OP has already had good advice so just picking up on the misinformation about RWD and auto bozes. BMW and Mercs are not useless in the snow at all, they however are not great on hard compound , wide, lower profiled rubber (with clueless idiots behind the wheel just to add aswell!)

My BMW is great now it has proper tyres for the conditions - stereotypes often are just that and generally show ignorance of the facts

As someone else said its a wonder Germany manages to function with all that snow and all those Mercs and BMWs on the roads....

harveybobbles

PsiDOC wrote: »

Not pointless at. If you don't know:
A: Wether the car has traction control and how to tell if it has.
B: If it has how to turn it off.

If you're not sure if your car has ESP then buy a Touran...

clever_username

harveybobbles wrote: »

If you're not sure if your car has ESP then buy a Touran...

Why a Touran?

harveybobbles

clever_username wrote: »

Why a Touran?

Cos even thought they have ESP, they bloody thing never works..

Oh, I just found this on you tube. It gets funny towards the end of the clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNin7QJEOZE

clever_username

harveybobbles wrote: »

Cos even thought they have ESP, they bloody thing never works..

Oh, I just found this on you tube. It gets funny towards the end of the clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNin7QJEOZE

Someone else posted it last night.

Along with a few photos of people using snow chains/socks on the front wheels of their BMWs.

Inactive

sunshinetours wrote: »

As someone else said its a wonder Germany manages to function with all that snow and all those Mercs and BMWs on the roads....

That may be because they know how to drive them properly, unlike many here in the UK.

Inactive

harveybobbles wrote: »

Cos even thought they have ESP, they bloody thing never works..

Oh, I just found this on you tube. It gets funny towards the end of the clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNin7QJEOZE

You couldn't make it up... :rotfl::rotfl:

sunshinetours

Inactive wrote: »

That may be because they know how to drive them properly, unlike many here in the UK.

Plus having the right equipment of course - still that isn't as fun as stereotyping is it.....

rev_henry

sunshinetours wrote: »

Plus having the right equipment of course - still that isn't as fun as stereotyping is it.....

Many people in many European countries I understand just have a set of winter tyres (with their own rims) sat in the corner of their garages which they just swap over when the weather gets bad. That's not commonplace at all over here.

sunshinetours

rev_henry wrote: »

Many people in many European countries I understand just have a set of winter tyres (with their own rims) sat in the corner of their garages which they just swap over when the weather gets bad. That's not commonplace at all over here.

I know (there is a long thread on winter tyres in here already) - point is many people think the cars are somehow faulty - they aren't its not having the right rubber on and also the lack of common sense of many drivers

There are plenty of idiot Ford Focus and Mondeo drivers around aswell as BMW and Mercs/Audis etc - some people just like basic humour (which is fine!)