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[Kevin Wood]

1 Omega with a lot in the boot - big fail including popping an LPG T piece due to high engine temperatures.

Too much accelerator, me thinks....

Me no understandie...  ...thats an alien concept


If Martin Imber is boiling up enough to pop pipes, there is a bigger underlying issue - you'd have to be giving it some severe large for a while to negate the effect of the fans in this weather.

Agreed. In addition, you can rev the nads off the engine all you like but, if it's not going anywhere, the engine is clearly under very little load so won't produce much heat, and the water pump will be going 19 to the dozen so no lack of cooling.

Have to say it points to something other than overheating.

Kevin

[Brikhead]

you'd have to be giving it some severe large for a while to negate the effect of the fans in this weather.

...you can rev the nads off the engine all you like but, if it's not going anywhere, the engine is clearly under very little load so won't produce much heat, and the water pump will be going 19 to the dozen so no lack of cooling.

Surely if the engine is "revving it's nads off" and the car is standing still then a lot of heat is going to be produced?
Consider the fact that if the engine is reving at 5,000 rpm the car should be doing over 100 m.p.h. thats a lot of wind chill factor you are loosing out on.

[Martin_1962]

It didn't hit red while driving - only hit red as the sensor got flooded with coolant which shorted it.

Wear and tear I think killed the T piece.

That hill was impassible today by anything

[TheBoy]

you'd have to be giving it some severe large for a while to negate the effect of the fans in this weather.

...you can rev the nads off the engine all you like but, if it's not going anywhere, the engine is clearly under very little load so won't produce much heat, and the water pump will be going 19 to the dozen so no lack of cooling.

Surely if the engine is "revving it's nads off" and the car is standing still then a lot of heat is going to be produced?
Consider the fact that if the engine is reving at 5,000 rpm the car should be doing over 100 m.p.h. thats a lot of wind chill factor you are loosing out on.

Nope, as its not having to deal with air resistance, there isn't that much heat (relatively speaking) with it simply revving the nuts off it.

[tunnie]

ahh but heat melts the snow 

[Kevin Wood]

you'd have to be giving it some severe large for a while to negate the effect of the fans in this weather.

...you can rev the nads off the engine all you like but, if it's not going anywhere, the engine is clearly under very little load so won't produce much heat, and the water pump will be going 19 to the dozen so no lack of cooling.

Surely if the engine is "revving it's nads off" and the car is standing still then a lot of heat is going to be produced?
Consider the fact that if the engine is reving at 5,000 rpm the car should be doing over 100 m.p.h. thats a lot of wind chill factor you are loosing out on.

Yes, but if the car's not doing 100 mph the engine is not generating the power required to overcome air resistance and tyre friction, for example. Heat output of an engine is pretty much proportional to power output. It'll generate more heat than at idle because there are more friction losses at high revs but it'll be easily dissipated by the cooling fans, especially if the air temperature is as cold as it currently is.

Kevin

[Maurizio Ceresoli]

Do you use to use snow tires in UK or is it very rare?

[TheBoy]

Well I thought I was going to be spending the night in the office, but fair play, the Omega was again flawless

[Kneepad]

Do you use to use snow tires in UK or is it very rare?

They are used here Maurizio, not rare.   

[Kevin Wood]

Crap in the snow

2 weeks worth of the stuff... And it's starting to defrost now. I can smell it even with man flu. Must be awful for those with working sinuses.

Kevin

[peterm]

well iv been taking wifes omeba out and leving my vecy home in this as much more fun to out in and start snow drifting
as vecy has auto controll  and spoils all my fun

and its great to hers the wife screeming in terror and the kids finding it all funny in back lets have more im ejoying this

but realy not good for them that are not used to it iv been out driving in this stuff for years so used to what can happen un like others

[cem_devecioglu]

Do you use to use snow tires in UK or is it very rare?

They are used here Maurizio, not rare.   

I dont believe it