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[feeutfo]

...of what ever it is they put in road grit. Bloody stinks off the hot exhaust. Thought sumat was leaking at first, then remembered from last year.    getting old you know....     

[Van Helsing]

...of what ever it is they put in road grit. Bloody stinks off the hot exhaust. Thought sumat was leaking at first, then remembered from last year.    getting old you know....     

Magic Trees, I gather this is a touchy subject

[dad1uk]

Ask TB, he might be able to give some advice!

[TheBoy]

As I was enjoying a quiet pint with my best mate in the Red Lion last night, I saw them gritting Brackley's Market Street (effectively the High Street).  I thought it was quite mild, but then I was wearing my beer coat...

[feeutfo]

It was forcast to be minus temp last night. M4 gritted a couple of times last week.
Good they are on the ball, but there go firther grip levels for a couple of months with all that dusty salt on the road. 

[Kevin Wood]

Just making sure they've completely depleted the stocks of grit before the weather gets really bad - I see they learnt from last year, then.

[TheBoy]

Just making sure they've completely depleted the stocks of grit before the weather gets really bad - I see they learnt from last year, then.

Exactly.

During the snow, not sure I've ever seen Market Street gritted

[feeutfo]

Just making sure they've completely depleted the stocks of grit before the weather gets really bad - I see they learnt from last year, then.

Exactly.

During the snow, not sure I've ever seen Market Street gritted

...are we entering damned if they do damned if they dont teritory? Give the machinary a work out imo. If little else.

[waspy]

...of what ever it is they put in road grit. Bloody stinks off the hot exhaust. Thought sumat was leaking at first, then remembered from last year.    getting old you know....     

They mix Molasses in with the salt & grit. It works down to a lower temp than normal salt/grit mix.

[Cliffo B]

And I understand sticks to the underbody of vehicles and is not easy to wash away after all I think it's molasses  in with the grit/salt that resists it easily being washed off the road surface so you can expect the same effect going on under our motors ie a highly corrosive substance in the nooks and cranny's beavering away all year round when it becomes moist /wet possibly the only antidote is a regular hot wash underneath specially of the suspension subframes as the underbody panels on miggy appears to have a substantial coating of underseal I have already given it a thorough inspection