Small cars in winter query.....

Iceweasel

neilmcl wrote: »

You're point being???

You posted an over generalised view that BMWs are useless in the snow, which I corrected you with my post about not without the correct tyres they're not. I don't see the issue the point you're trying to make.

Best give up Neil - horse to water - none so blind etc. etc.

They are just not going to believe.

Hopefully during the ice and snow we will not meet them coming towards us sideways!

alastairq

you won't meet me coming at you sideways either.

And..I won't have 'winter' tyres fitted [to my car, that is...] .....!

owen_money

Iceweasel wrote: »

Best give up Neil - horse to water - none so blind etc. etc.

They are just not going to believe.

Hopefully during the ice and snow we will not meet them coming towards us sideways!

None so blind as BMW drivers, the owners of the roads, they do no wrong. Maybe I just have the wrong impression of BWM's in the snow, maybe its just bad drivers. Hang on a BMW owner a bad driver, surely not.

alastairq

In the post I typed somewhere above, re the old Volvo....[genuine Volvo, not someone else's apology-for-a-volvo!]....my son kept a tally of makes either sat there with bonnet up [conked out] or, in a hedge.

Of the many, many sidelined cars that day/night...every one with a bonnet up was a BMW.

Every one stuffed in a hedge was an Audi.

Law of averages?

Maybe..maybe not?

Iceweasel

Owen and Alistair - Yes, I know all this about BMW drivers - and all Arabs are terrorists, all Americans are fat, the Irish are stupid, the Scots are greedy, etc. etc.

Spot the mistake?

Time to close this thread I think.

We must agree to differ.

owen_money

Iceweasel wrote: »

Owen and Alistair - Yes, I know all this about BMW drivers - and all Arabs are terrorists, all Americans are fat, the Irish are stupid, the Scots are greedy, etc. etc.

Spot the mistake?

Time to close this thread I think.

We must agree to differ.

Agreed....

aliasojo

artbaron wrote: »

The best car ever in snow is the 1.2 Nova. It never got stuck, no matter how deep the snow. Once I drove 100 miles on roads with well over a foot of fresh snow on them and it didn't even slip.

That was my first ever 'all my own' car after ex husband and I split.

I loved it, it was pretty much a banger with a dodgy choke, there was a real fine line between too little and too much but it never let me down. Unlike my ex husband.

lovesgshp

If using a rear wheel drive car in the snow, put a few 25kg cement or ballast bags in the back to keep weight on the rear wheels. This acts similar to a FWD vehicle, BMW's do handle badly in the snow and the wet, as I have found out, but those were models in the mid 80's.
Our 3 ltr turbo Supra was a real pita in the snow as well, as rear wheel drive. 100kg in the boot helped!!!