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Re: Snow driving
« Reply #15 on: 19 December 2009, 19:38:18 »
agree front wheel drive tends to be better  when slippery - but rear wheel more fun/interesting
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Re: Snow driving
« Reply #16 on: 19 December 2009, 19:39:57 »
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agree front wheel drive tends to be better  when slippery - but rear wheel more fun/interesting


I agree. It is more fun getting the back end out and so on. Unfortunately, if you get your back end out in the normal course of driving, you've swiped someone alongside you.
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Re: Snow driving
« Reply #17 on: 19 December 2009, 19:48:07 »
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Just to set the record straight, I'm well over 30, and I'm absolutely useless at driving in the snow and ice.

Took me an hour to back out of the drive yesterday :(

Don`t feel too bad about knowing your limits.....
There`s been several inches of fresh snowfall on top of slick-ice here today; winter motoring is a deadly serious business here in the mountains....All too easy to get stuck, isolated or freeze to death on lonely back-country roads; even with snow tyres/chains, a shovel and various items of winter-safety equipment aboard.
TBH: I venture out only if necessary (particularly at night) and driving in such conditions always scares me! ;)
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Re: Snow driving
« Reply #18 on: 19 December 2009, 19:48:44 »
I'm only 24 (have been for years) but turn the TC off in the snow & embrace the "playtime". Small amounts of the loud pedal are highly entertaining at low speeds.
    On a more serious note i & many others still manage to get our artics up & down our wee island so car drivers have no excuse.
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Re: Snow driving
« Reply #19 on: 19 December 2009, 19:51:02 »
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agree front wheel drive tends to be better  when slippery - but rear wheel more fun/interesting


I agree. It is more fun getting the back end out and so on. Unfortunately, if you get your back end out in the normal course of driving, you've swiped someone alongside you.
You don't play drifties if somone else is alons side you anyway. :-?
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Re: Snow driving
« Reply #20 on: 19 December 2009, 19:52:51 »
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 i & many others still manage to get our artics up & down our wee island so car drivers have no excuse.

I'm sure that there could be a joke made about weight somewhere in that statement .........  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;) :y
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« Reply #21 on: 19 December 2009, 19:53:56 »
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agree front wheel drive tends to be better  when slippery - but rear wheel more fun/interesting


I agree. It is more fun getting the back end out and so on. Unfortunately, if you get your back end out in the normal course of driving, you've swiped someone alongside you.
You don't play drifties if somone else is alons side you anyway. :-?


Most young drivers play 'drifties' unintentionally.
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Re: Snow driving
« Reply #22 on: 19 December 2009, 19:54:21 »
that's why i played today in the lanes on my own,, i wouldn't do things like that near anybody else, but usually have gas stove 2 weeks food sleeping bag etc, with me plus a bottle of port  ( for medicinal purposes)
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Re: Snow driving
« Reply #23 on: 19 December 2009, 19:54:40 »
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Just to set the record straight, I'm well over 30, and I'm absolutely useless at driving in the snow and ice.

Looks like you could do with a shave and haircut judging by that avatar mate..........!!!

 :D :D :D :y
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Re: Snow driving
« Reply #24 on: 19 December 2009, 20:14:27 »
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Front wheel drive is best in slippery conditions.

Last year the guy 2 doors down couldn't get his vectra up the 1.5" to his drive. Completley useless ::)
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Re: Snow driving
« Reply #25 on: 19 December 2009, 20:16:13 »
Riding a bike in snow is fun - better if a tractable one

At least the snow cusions your falls
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Re: Snow driving
« Reply #26 on: 19 December 2009, 20:17:37 »
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Front wheel drive is best in slippery conditions.

Last year the guy 2 doors down couldn't get his vectra up the 1.5" to his drive. Completley useless ::)


I've had two omegas and a beemer, both RWD, and both as sh!t in the wet/snow as any FWD. I've been driving for just on 40 years and the secret to driving in slippery conditions is- slow and careful, no matter which wheels are driven.
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Re: Snow driving
« Reply #27 on: 19 December 2009, 20:28:32 »
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Front wheel drive is best in slippery conditions.

and for snowy hills..
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Re: Snow driving
« Reply #28 on: 19 December 2009, 20:28:42 »
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Front wheel drive is best in slippery conditions.


That depends; Ok you have the weight of the engine over the front of the driving wheels, but that's all you can have. With a correct wheel drive car you can add quite a lot of weight. I used to run SD1's years back & i used to load up the boot with Silo Bolts from work, 40 kilo a sack & i'd have ten in the wheel well, that coupled with self leveling suspension. I never had any problems at all :y :y :y :y
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Re: Snow driving
« Reply #29 on: 19 December 2009, 20:31:07 »
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Front wheel drive is best in slippery conditions.


That depends; Ok you have the weight of the engine over the front of the driving wheels, but that's all you can have. With a correct wheel drive car you can add quite a lot of weight. I used to run SD1's years back & i used to load up the boot with Silo Bolts from work, 40 kilo a sack & i'd have ten in the wheel well, that coupled with self leveling suspension. I never had any problems at all :y :y :y :y


Except fuel economy. :o
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