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18-12-2010, 01:58 PM
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Who else is stuck?
Who else is stuck in the snow? Been stuck in the centre of Oxford since half 12 probably moved 2 miles in that time!
18-12-2010, 02:04 PM
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I'm not stuck in the sense that I cannot move, but I'm Stuck in traffic. It's stationary for the last 20minutes I'm still 11miles from home!!!
18-12-2010, 02:05 PM
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I was, just about to walk and a guy in a 4wd pick up towed me up the hill I couldn't get up. Lwb rwd transit plus hill covered with stranded cars = no go for me.
Respect for the guy though, got me up there, both of us all over the road lol. Managed a run up to the next hill and just made it as had no obstacles. 25 min drive took me just over 2 hrs, absolute carnage on the roads.
Saw the obligatory new 4wd land rover smash into a tree on a bend as he thought 4wd means being able to take the bends fast in the snow
Respect for the guy though, got me up there, both of us all over the road lol. Managed a run up to the next hill and just made it as had no obstacles. 25 min drive took me just over 2 hrs, absolute carnage on the roads.
Saw the obligatory new 4wd land rover smash into a tree on a bend as he thought 4wd means being able to take the bends fast in the snow
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18-12-2010, 03:52 PM
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got in from work at 14.00, im a hgv driver. ive had a brilliant time.
i absolutely love this weather.
its taken me ages to get where im going but im still enjoying in.
just come in from playing outside with the kids.
its great.
all these misrable bastards moaning about the weather and how the councils arent doing enough is making me laugh.
time people did something for themselfs and drove properly, maybe invest in winter tyres or chains.
we should be preparing ourselfs for the weather instead of expecting others to sort it out for us.
it amazes me that this country won any wars at all when we seem to be totaly fucked with a little snow.
rant over now go play in the snow
i absolutely love this weather.
its taken me ages to get where im going but im still enjoying in.
just come in from playing outside with the kids.
its great.
all these misrable bastards moaning about the weather and how the councils arent doing enough is making me laugh.
time people did something for themselfs and drove properly, maybe invest in winter tyres or chains.
we should be preparing ourselfs for the weather instead of expecting others to sort it out for us.
it amazes me that this country won any wars at all when we seem to be totaly fucked with a little snow.
rant over now go play in the snow
18-12-2010, 03:59 PM
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no snow in sheffield at all. but i do have to drive to winchester on wednesday. so thats m1 to 15a then cross country past silverstone and across the m40,past oxford and newbury etc. am i going to get stuck or what?
jay,do you have any 195/60/15 winter tyres in stock?
think i might need some
jay,do you have any 195/60/15 winter tyres in stock?
think i might need some
18-12-2010, 04:04 PM
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jimmy,
its bloody awful out there in a truck,
shame your losing money though mate. i just dont understand why haulage firms (mine included) and general public dont prepare for it better.
other countries run smoothly with far worse than what we have got now but england comes to a complete halt. its ridiculas
18-12-2010, 05:06 PM
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Loads down by me(Swansea) particularly my actual area (pennard).
I'm doing my boys paperound right now as he's recovering from the op and I've got to say,old people have fucking no idea how to drive in the snow.
Some old cunt was trying like fuck to get up a slight gradient in his Mazda with no regard for anyone else,rolling back down the hill,he nearly clipped about 5 cars on the way down. There's kids everywhere and he's trying a "run up" yet won't change out of first gear.fucking retard.
On the 5th failiure he decides to go the long way round and lo and behold he makes it!!
Our merc ml has been faultless in the snow,ok I don't hammer it around but ive had no issues with it at all,it's hard to tell your in snow tbh.
I'm doing my boys paperound right now as he's recovering from the op and I've got to say,old people have fucking no idea how to drive in the snow.
Some old cunt was trying like fuck to get up a slight gradient in his Mazda with no regard for anyone else,rolling back down the hill,he nearly clipped about 5 cars on the way down. There's kids everywhere and he's trying a "run up" yet won't change out of first gear.fucking retard.
On the 5th failiure he decides to go the long way round and lo and behold he makes it!!
Our merc ml has been faultless in the snow,ok I don't hammer it around but ive had no issues with it at all,it's hard to tell your in snow tbh.
18-12-2010, 05:19 PM
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jimmy,
its bloody awful out there in a truck,
shame your losing money though mate. i just dont understand why haulage firms (mine included) and general public dont prepare for it better.
other countries run smoothly with far worse than what we have got now but england comes to a complete halt. its ridiculas
its bloody awful out there in a truck,
shame your losing money though mate. i just dont understand why haulage firms (mine included) and general public dont prepare for it better.
other countries run smoothly with far worse than what we have got now but england comes to a complete halt. its ridiculas
I know bruv gutted
could have done with that paper europe seems to just get on with snow and ice but britain just stops, it is crap
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18-12-2010, 05:29 PM
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Do you still need two sets of tyres in Germany?seems a good idea.
I only had a focus 1.8 estate last year and never got stuck.same with my transit the year before,driving in snows not hard,takes a bit more concentration and time but the amount of fucking retards I see is incredible.someone got stuck in a brand new Nissan juke(????) thing in my street.It was obvious that his traction control was just kicking in and cutting the power,but rather than switching it off,his hazards come on and he's straight on the phone where daddy comes to pull him out in a disco td5.fucking pathetic!!!
Got to laugh at these lads on my estate with a sooty van.the two of them have just been drifting it all day,very controlled as well!!!
I only had a focus 1.8 estate last year and never got stuck.same with my transit the year before,driving in snows not hard,takes a bit more concentration and time but the amount of fucking retards I see is incredible.someone got stuck in a brand new Nissan juke(????) thing in my street.It was obvious that his traction control was just kicking in and cutting the power,but rather than switching it off,his hazards come on and he's straight on the phone where daddy comes to pull him out in a disco td5.fucking pathetic!!!
Got to laugh at these lads on my estate with a sooty van.the two of them have just been drifting it all day,very controlled as well!!!
18-12-2010, 06:59 PM
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Ive been lucky in the snow.It normaly takes me 10 to 15 mins to get to and from work.One day it took me 35 mins.
Ive been using my dads focus and its beens shite in the snow.Its got stuck neearly everywhere.
Ive been using my dads focus and its beens shite in the snow.Its got stuck neearly everywhere.
18-12-2010, 07:17 PM
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got in from work at 14.00, im a hgv driver. ive had a brilliant time.
i absolutely love this weather.
its taken me ages to get where im going but im still enjoying in.
just come in from playing outside with the kids.
its great.
all these misrable bastards moaning about the weather and how the councils arent doing enough is making me laugh.
time people did something for themselfs and drove properly, maybe invest in winter tyres or chains.
we should be preparing ourselfs for the weather instead of expecting others to sort it out for us.
it amazes me that this country won any wars at all when we seem to be totaly fucked with a little snow.
rant over now go play in the snow
i absolutely love this weather.
its taken me ages to get where im going but im still enjoying in.
just come in from playing outside with the kids.
its great.
all these misrable bastards moaning about the weather and how the councils arent doing enough is making me laugh.
time people did something for themselfs and drove properly, maybe invest in winter tyres or chains.
we should be preparing ourselfs for the weather instead of expecting others to sort it out for us.
it amazes me that this country won any wars at all when we seem to be totaly fucked with a little snow.
rant over now go play in the snow
Even if you don't like driving in the snow that is fair enough but for the majority of us using our legs isn't physically impossible or public transport. It winds me up how something so trivial can cause so much chaos! On another note I have never got stuck either.
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18-12-2010, 07:55 PM
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got in from work at 14.00, im a hgv driver. ive had a brilliant time.
i absolutely love this weather.
its taken me ages to get where im going but im still enjoying in.
just come in from playing outside with the kids.
its great.
all these misrable bastards moaning about the weather and how the councils arent doing enough is making me laugh.
time people did something for themselfs and drove properly, maybe invest in winter tyres or chains.
we should be preparing ourselfs for the weather instead of expecting others to sort it out for us.
it amazes me that this country won any wars at all when we seem to be totaly fucked with a little snow.
rant over now go play in the snow
i absolutely love this weather.
its taken me ages to get where im going but im still enjoying in.
just come in from playing outside with the kids.
its great.
all these misrable bastards moaning about the weather and how the councils arent doing enough is making me laugh.
time people did something for themselfs and drove properly, maybe invest in winter tyres or chains.
we should be preparing ourselfs for the weather instead of expecting others to sort it out for us.
it amazes me that this country won any wars at all when we seem to be totaly fucked with a little snow.
rant over now go play in the snow
I am a hgv driver and i love it, my everyday car is a Range Rover and it was snowing hard the other night and the wife said where are you going, i said its snowing, its playtime
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18-12-2010, 08:03 PM
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sideways all the way!
we've had to go play in it everyday,last week it took me from 7am to 12am to do a 3hour run to lichfield and back,but our polish driver cant undastand why snow fucks this country up,he said it doesnt bother poland one bit.
19-12-2010, 05:50 PM
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focuses arent very good in snow it would seem.
19-12-2010, 06:36 PM
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there's about 4 or 5 inches worth of snow round my way, but seeing as my little bit of road is a little layby for 5 houses, no one got in ror out, so there's a 6 inch ridge of ice that's built up on the main road, couldn't get the fiesta out over the top so the transit is going ot be just the same tomorrow morning
assuming it starts that is
assuming it starts that is
20-12-2010, 10:12 AM
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Yeah am still stuck ..
BA couldnt manage to get the 777-300 off the tarmac at Heathrow ..
Think they need winter engines as the normal ones dont work in the snow ..
BA couldnt manage to get the 777-300 off the tarmac at Heathrow ..
Think they need winter engines as the normal ones dont work in the snow ..
20-12-2010, 10:16 AM
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my mate has a focus, he came round mine in it and we went out the other week and it got stuck so many times! then we stopped to help another focus driver get unstuck and ours got stuck, then we saw another focus slide out at about 5mph lol just a disaster of a journey, took about an hour to do 8 miles.
focuses arent very good in snow it would seem.
focuses arent very good in snow it would seem.
don't blame the car for your mates poor driving skills
i have a focus and its never let me down even in 8inch + of snow with ice undernieth on hilly un gritted rural lanes (live out in the sticks with a very steep hill to negotiate). last year i had half worn falken fk452's on which only got stuck once but i got it without getting out the car (no noone pushed or towed me) and this year i have as new hankook evo s1's which a thought would be complete shite as they barely have any cross cuts in the tread!!
so, focus's are great in the snow. 8)
20-12-2010, 11:09 AM
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speak for yourself lol
these 3 were awful. they were all new shape ones though. it wasnt the snow they were getting stuck in, it was the ice and they were effected badly by the camber of the roads, just parked at some lights and it slid over to the curb lol
these 3 were awful. they were all new shape ones though. it wasnt the snow they were getting stuck in, it was the ice and they were effected badly by the camber of the roads, just parked at some lights and it slid over to the curb lol
