Winter Tyres

missile

Nice one mickey :rotfl:

SHIPSHAPE

Lum wrote: »

Here's another one

Really reckon you'll get down that dip and up the hill ahead on summer tyres.

Another nice dip here too...

These are pics from the return journey, couldn't take pics on the outgoing, when there were no tyre tracks to drive in, as the amount of snow being flung upwards by my front bumper was too much for the camera to see though.

But why would I wish to drive through thick snow on untreated country lanes?:(

Don't you take notice of travel advice when there is obvious severe weather?

Where I live there has been two quite severe snow coverings, (both just 14 months apart), since the last deluge 28 years prior.

I took three days off work until the thaw had kicked in which then made travel ok.

My mid range tyres had good enough grip to drive on the ice and slush whilst I also drove as per conditions.

How can one justify fitting winter tyres that may have made it ok for me to drive during the worst 3 days?

Plus there is the problem of driving on snowy roads with my winter tyres only to find the roads blocked because the other vehicles do not have winter tyres!

What is the point? It's ridiculous.

SHIPSHAPE

missile wrote: »

there is no law against jumping out of an aeroplane without a parachute.

Yes there is, if one was to intentionally jump out of an aircraft without a parachute one would almost certainly be committing suicide which is against the law.

Delivery_Driver

I had winter tyres fitted last year and just kept them on as I don't do that many miles.They don't corner as well as a normal tyre and the stopping distance is slightly longer but you soon compensate for it.

gilbert_and_sullivan

SHIPSHAPE wrote: »

Don't you take notice of travel advice when there is obvious severe weather?

Where I live there has been two quite severe snow coverings, (both just 14 months apart), since the last deluge 28 years prior.

I took three days off work until the thaw had kicked in which then made travel ok.

My mid range tyres had good enough grip to drive on the ice and slush whilst I also drove as per conditions.

How can one justify fitting winter tyres that may have made it ok for me to drive during the worst 3 days?

Plus there is the problem of driving on snowy roads with my winter tyres only to find the roads blocked because the other vehicles do not have winter tyres!

What is the point? It's ridiculous.

If we all took your leisurely attitude to going to work....oh hang on a minute that's part of the reason the country has gone down the U bend....lots do take that attitude.

If i don't turn in and get out and do my job you won't be eating, if millions of others took your choice of not going cos it's snowing then nothing would work, the hospitals and everything else would stop and chaos ensue.

Most of us thankfully take our duties seriously, going to our respective jobs when required being duty to ourselves, our families and our country.

grizzly1911

Cash-Strapped.T32 wrote: »

Nothing worse than being behind some potato-car like a micra or corsa who can't make it up a hill in snow or ice/slush, so everyone in a row all has to stop & get stranded in turn.
Well, being behind one that starts to slide backwards is probably worse but you get my drift..

(And if this looks like fun to you imagine what the 40mi round trip to & from work every day was like )

Potato head sums it up or Nut behind the wheel. There are far to many drivers who just shouldn't be out there in those types of conditions (if at all) regardless of the tyres they have got..

It is highly likely that a micra or a corsa could be perfectly OK if driven with due care and attention. Narrow, section wheels/tyres to cut through the snow/slush, low power to allow more control, front wheel drive.

I don't dispute there are times and places for real snow/ice tyres. In the scheme of things "winter" rubber is not going to be the make or break in this country for the majority. Adapt to survive.

missile

SHIPSHAPE wrote: »

Yes there is, if one was to intentionally jump out of an aircraft without a parachute one would almost certainly be committing suicide which is against the law.

Suicide (and attempted suicide) were decriminalized in England and Wales in 1961, subject to the condition that one commits or attempts to commit suicide alone, without any assistance and without any joint 'suicide pact'. Suicide is not a crime in Scotland, either.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_it_illegal_to_commit_suicide_in_the_UK#ixzz1aICL8400.

Lum

SHIPSHAPE wrote: »

But why would I wish to drive through thick snow on untreated country lanes?:(

Several reasons.

In the case of the particular run shown in some of these photos, it's because my GF is a photographer and wanted to take photographs of the Brecons in the snow, which kind of requires you to drive in the snow on such lanes.

Wouldn't get a picture like this if we waited for the snow to go away



Also the people who use these lanes tend to have suitable vehicles and tyres so in the snow they actually become safer as the main roads end up filling with crashed and abandoned cars. I get some funny looks from the Land Rover drivers since my car looks like an American RWD barge, but I can deal with that.

I can get to work when many can't, and thus for the outlay of under £400 for a set of tyres that will last me about 4 years, I get to work on those days and thus not lose money.

Don't you take notice of travel advice when there is obvious severe weather?

I follow the travel advice and weather forecasts to determine when I need to fit my fancy tyres and start carrying my snow chains, shovel etc. but the "do not travel" advice is aimed at the lowest common denominator, i.e. all the muppets driving around in ordinary cars fitted with Linglong Ditchfinders who have not even bothered to buy a set of snow socks.

Where I live there has been two quite severe snow coverings, (both just 14 months apart), since the last deluge 28 years prior.

Where I live the snow was around for a few weeks last winter, and the winter before, and the ice was around for even longer, as was the cold weather.

I took three days off work until the thaw had kicked in which then made travel ok.

My mid range tyres had good enough grip to drive on the ice and slush whilst I also drove as per conditions.

How can one justify fitting winter tyres that may have made it ok for me to drive during the worst 3 days?

A week off work would cost me a little under a grand, so 3 days would cost me around £500. Less than I have spent on the tyres, which will last me through about 4 winters.

I've also driven on ice where even the lightest braking from 10-15mph = instant slide. Nearly caused an accident as I slid toward the T junction and onto the gritted main road, fortunately the oncoming van saw me and went around me. That same patch of ice a few days later with the Nokians on, car could stop just fine.

Plus there is the problem of driving on snowy roads with my winter tyres only to find the roads blocked because the other vehicles do not have winter tyres!

That is an issue, yes, one I am trying to address with posts such as this.

I guess it's a good thing that here they tend to only plough one lane of the dual carriageways so the crashed and abandoned cars tend not to be in the unploughed lane and if you have a suitably equipped car you get a lane to yourself. Normally you need a BMW badge for that!

missile

:T

Normally you need a BMW badge for that!

Good one

mikey72

SHIPSHAPE wrote: »

But why would I wish to drive through thick snow on untreated country lanes?

It's fun.

And also last winter I spent most of my time defrosting pipes, and fixing leaks, so sitting at home wasn't really an option.