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[goonv6]

We live at the bottom of a hill and its iced up with sheet ice at the moment. The Miggy went up with absolutely no probs, straight past the Mercs and Lexus's that were stuck! However, went to inspect rear tyres and found they were bald  today so £120 later and I have a nice new set.

[MickAP]

Yep my TD been stood for 10 days, and it's still got the original battery on, over 9 years old.
Fired up first turn of the key this morning, no probs -3.5 on the temp reading.

Mick

[The roadrunner]

Mine fired first turn of the key, indicated temperature -1.5 degrees C.

Keeping the back end going in roughly the same direction as the front is a bit of a challenge at the moment as most of the roads round here are bereft of anything looking like grit!

Heated seats are worth their weight in gold in this weather! 8-)

[Omega3]

Ahh, heated seats, I remember them well...

[belldarr]

Erm - I dont think they are that good actually - mine is parked up and I am using the wife's 4 wheel drive Ford Galaxy.

Last February when we had the last big snowfall I was in a line of moving traffic in my Omega and the first significant hill we got to my car just would not go up it - much to the disgust of everyone behind me.

Just my opinion....

[Ian_D]

Yep my TD been stood for 10 days, and it's still got the original battery on, over 9 years old.
Fired up first turn of the key this morning, no probs -3.5 on the temp reading.

Mick

My Diesel Omega has been parked up for about 4 months not started (battery removed).

Shoved a semi-charged battery on it the other day, gave it two goes on the glow plugs and turned the key...

Started STRAIGHT away! No missfires or anything! Couldn't belive it! I half expected the battery to be flat thinking about it!

In terms of engine time cranking over, it actually started faster than my V6 does and that gets used daily! 

Not bad for 189,000 miles derv! 

[goats milk]

well it hit -18 last night and hasnt gone above -2.5 for about a wek, and still the omega pulls everywhere, even getting where most cant, i do have to have the T/C off because it cuts in way to much.

[Squealey]

Erm - I dont think they are that good actually - mine is parked up and I am using the wife's 4 wheel drive Ford Galaxy.

Last February when we had the last big snowfall I was in a line of moving traffic in my Omega and the first significant hill we got to my car just would not go up it - much to the disgust of everyone behind me.

Just my opinion....

Must agree. Living in Boston we are completely berefit of any hills whatsoever, but coming out of Asda the other night when it was snowing heavily, I had to pull out of a junction and up the tiniest of uphill gradients. Auto box in snow mode, cars in front pulled away no probs, I pulled away so slowly my son thought he was going to have to get out and push. Just cannot get any traction.

They are bloody good fun on quiet roundabouts though

[goats milk]

Erm - I dont think they are that good actually - mine is parked up and I am using the wife's 4 wheel drive Ford Galaxy.

Last February when we had the last big snowfall I was in a line of moving traffic in my Omega and the first significant hill we got to my car just would not go up it - much to the disgust of everyone behind me.

Just my opinion....

Must agree. Living in Boston we are completely berefit of any hills whatsoever, but coming out of Asda the other night when it was snowing heavily, I had to pull out of a junction and up the tiniest of uphill gradients. Auto box in snow mode, cars in front pulled away no probs, I pulled away so slowly my son thought he was going to have to get out and push. Just cannot get any traction.

They are bloody good fun on quiet roundabouts though

summer tyres maybe?

[Squealey]

Thats all we have over here. I used to travel to Germany all the time, to Frickenhausen just outside Stuttgart, and was always amazed how well the bog standard Mondeos coped in the snow. Then I was told it is a legal requirement to have snow tyres between certain dates of the year. Thats why you see so many cars that should have alloys on with just steel wheels.

If I had snow tyres they'd only be needed for a maximum of one week every year.

[Lazydocker]

Mine's fine... I must confess, I have filled the Petrol tank and the LPG tank so got plenty of weight in the back, dropped the tyre pressures slightly and off we go... No problems here at all, but I do have to turn the TC off occasionally to get going and steering on the throttle just has to be done

[Pitchfork]

Appalling lack of traction on untreated roads even when loaded with a full PA system (Which isn't light) and using 'Snow Mode'. No problems with the wifes' Fiesta though (front wheel drive)

[unlucky mark mv6]

Erm - I dont think they are that good actually - mine is parked up and I am using the wife's 4 wheel drive Ford Galaxy.

Last February when we had the last big snowfall I was in a line of moving traffic in my Omega and the first significant hill we got to my car just would not go up it - much to the disgust of everyone behind me.

Just my opinion....
Chuck some bags of sand in the back,as i always remember the old man doing some years back,done the trick though.

[belldarr]

I did think of weighing the back end down but the width of the tyres doesn't do the car any favours - too wide for snow - also I have the 4 wheel drive to use so I just jump in that.

I used to work for Paddy Hopkirk years ago and he once told me about a time he was driving a mini betwen stages and was driving in thick snow and wasn't hanging around, it was at night and he could see a pair of headlights in his rear view mirror gaining on him, thinking it was another competitor he tried to go even faster but the car behind eventually caught him and as it overtook him he realised it was a Citroen 2CV with 2 nuns in it - how true it is I dont know 

[going crazy]

The backend of mine is thrown around as well,but, I have a bigger and wierd problem..

When driving over black ice or snow, the brakes of my mig do not like to be pushed into - they make a noise and undo themselves..

I almost could not stop near the end of a minor road - is there is a problem with my brakes or some sort of setting which I can turn off?

Please advice!