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[john6177]

just a quick thread to thank KEVIN WOOD publicly in alton. i have PM'd him but thought other OOF readers should know how excellent the tech 2 service is on here (and cheaper than VX). i wanted cruise control activating  and a software g/b upgrade.THE BOY gave me his details after telling me he was close by in alton hants. i beat a path through the snow today and got the work done. awesome thank you all. well happy with work done.

john

[TheBoy]

Oh gawd, Mr Wood will no doubt be in full smug mode when he sees this 

[Kevin Wood]

It was a pleasure.

Good job you left when you did! It has dumped down ever since and the A31 is now closed until morning I think. Did a yomp out to the shops and decided size 10 1/2's and a rucksack were a better option than a 3.2 MV6. That was a good call. A few people won't get home tonight.

Kevin

[tunnie]

Tell me about it, its dumped a load here in London, about 3" so far I would sau

[feeutfo]

ar yes. Mr Wood up to his usual. :-)

He's helped me out many a time.

Can you imagine the the agro with dealers if this service wasn't available to us? A really do dread to think.
Well done "Team" :-)

[feeutfo]

its funny, we're getting reports of really bad snow all round us here in Slough, but its only now starting to settle. +2c at lunch time. Sleet snow rain snow sleat snow and SNOW....and now really big snow. Journey home should be fun, not.

[tunnie]

its funny, we're getting reports of really bad snow all round us here in Slough, but its only now starting to settle. +2c at lunch time. Sleet snow rain snow sleat snow and SNOW....and now really big snow. Journey home should be fun, not.

Depending on the M25, i might see you on the M4 

[Kevin Wood]

I'd like to thank the Hampshire county council highways dept. for their ineptitude in making these images possible.

Kevin

[Omegadoha, Desert Member]

Nice pictures. 

You know what, I'm actually getting quite jealous; missing out on all this snow. Over here you just get the same weather over and over.

Been on the phone to SWMBO earlier and she was giving me reports of all this snow, I'm missing out big time.

[sparten]

not so much as a wiff of it here just cold 

[john6177]

kev,
glad i left when i did. could have been well stuck

john

[john6177]

kev

could have some fun in the westy out there. got snow here might crack out the capri, cant beat rear wheel drive in the snow!!!!!

[Kevin Wood]

Last (and first) time I tried to drive that in the show it was a joke. You had to keep the throttle perfectly balanced in every gear. Just lift off slightly in a high gear and the back end would try to overtake the front and you'd be sitting with an armful of opposite lock on trying to apply just enough throttle to stop it. At least it has relatively little momentum so if you do have to just lock the brakes and hope for the best it does stop before it hits a curb.

600Kg on 205/50/15 A539s isn't a good recipe for snow.

I don't think I even had the LSD on it then.

BTW: the only vehicle in those photos that was capable of movement was the snow plough. And his plough was about 6 inches off the ground!

Kevin

[feeutfo]

best show him how to drive that snow plough Kev. Do everyone a favour.


Tunnie, i hope for your sake i dont see you on the m4. I'm not leaving Slough until 10pm. I'm sure it will be a proper ice rink by then.

[john6177]

alton just mentioned on local news. good old hants council.