Preparing for snow

mikey72

Tobster86 wrote: »

I'd strongly advise against using a kettle as thermal shock can fracture the windscreen. The same goes for warm water from any source generally; it doesn't have to be boiling.

Never done it any other way for over thirty years.
And that was back in the day of toughened glass, if anyone remembers that.
Never boiling, but run out of the hot tap though.
The heat stops the window instantly freezing back up again as well.

Lum

moses06 wrote: »

Another thing that REALLY gets me annoyed is people tail gating me in ice and snow, expecting me to be flying around at speed just because I have a 4x4, it does NOT mean I can go faster, just that I have more grip and easier pulling off, morons, a 4x4 driven like a nutter on ice and snow is 2 tons of out of control metal, no thanks! Yet these morons just don't get the gist.

Funny, in my experience it's usually the 4x4s doing all the tailgating as I potter about in my 4WD saloon with winter tyres on.

OK admittedly we're talking BMW and Audi 4x4s here, not Landys and the like. Most of them are probably still running sporty summer tyres that fail on wet grass.

moses06

Lum wrote: »

Funny, in my experience it's usually the 4x4s doing all the tailgating as I potter about in my 4WD saloon with winter tyres on.

OK admittedly we're talking BMW and Audi 4x4s here, not Landys and the like. Most of them are probably still running sporty summer tyres that fail on wet grass.

They do get stuck on wet grass!! I see it all the time at horse events, look down their noses at my 16 year old trooper, but can't get out of the car park!!!! Love it!
To the poster above with the tipper truck - I can assure you I go more than 10mph, especially up the steep hills I need to get up to see to the livestock, I also off road quite a bit so I feel I am capable and competant in mud, ice and snow. I also hold back and wait up if slowies are on the hill as I don't want the silly !!!!!!s sliding back down into me:p