Fiddy

My street was pretty clear, i live near the town centre, so the roads are clear enough as they get used a lot, so once i got it out, i knew it wouldnt be a problem. but the car hasnt moved since friday, and we have had loads of snow since. but wor lass is really ill, and needed to go to the doctors. so i cleared the car off, turned the traction control off, put it in second gear, 2k revs, let the clutch out, drove the fuck off, no drama. so much for FWD being shite in the snow

DJMST

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I'm in the same conditions as you mate,Focus ST on eibachs,not much clearance,front bumper took a beating but turned ESP off and it plodded thru no problem,280bhp and 334lb/ft and didn't even spin the wheels

R5FORD

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mine spins in the dry

Fiddy

Aye mate, my front bumper was the same, used as a snow plough. the joys of lowered cars. but, the old girl got through with no fuss at all, which actually surprised me. if i tried to drive off in first gear, with the TC on, it would have made a rite pigs ear of the job though. so much for TC and ESP, works in the wet, and even in low snowfall, but it in deep snow, it causes more problems than anything else. pull off in second, use the torque of the engine, job jobbed

DJMST

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Its not so much the snow that fucks the bumper its when its compacts into solid lumps of ice,thats when mines is useless!

Fiddy

aye, i was lucky, most of mine was fresh snow, so it just pushed it out the way

Glenn_

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You should of tried it this morning at 5.30. The gritter hadnt been out so the roads where covered in snow. I got to work then i had to go to middlesbough.

CarParts Express

Your last pic brings back horrible childhood memories...that used to be my dentists!! Is it still one now?

Fiddy

Yeah, but the butcher, i mean, dentist, is polish. i was there three weeks ago, he yanked, and i mean yanked, my tooth out, i kid you not, with a pair of what i can only describe as, pliers.

DJMST

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I start work at 02.00,it was worse then,better once you get in the lorry with no prats in cars around though,and when daylight breaks the idiots appear doing 10 mph on the motorways,in the clear lane,a wee spray of slush keeps out the way though

delterflier

my focus has done prity well like ya say pull away in second,only got stuck twice since it started falling on friday.hasnt realy stoped me doing what i ushaly do.

did suffer some miner damage thow......lost me front spliter

john

BigErn

My manky old Cavalier TD has been all over the place with no hassle whatsoever. Ive passed all sorts of stuff stuck on hills.