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Plenty Of The 'White Stuff' This Year??

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bigblue:
UK diesel will wax at -12 degrees, and probably even sooner, seeing how we have had remarkably warm winters for the past decade.

Yes adding petrol to diesel will help, a bit like screenwash, anti-freeze etc. Wouldn't put more than a couple of litres into a full tank though. Run the risk a shredding the fiel filter and then the risk of particles blocking injectors etc.

As for the weather. If they are predicting that, I'll get the shorts back out!

BB...

TimM:
I got stuck in the snow once in my car, somebody infront has an accident and by the time the road infront had been cleared I had snow right up the doors and half way up the windows (I was in the middle of an open area and it was snowing sideways with the wind!). I and my car made the local papers, my car as you could only just see the roof, and myself being rescued by a Land Rover. The car was buried, the police and the farmer (with the Landie) dug down to the boot and I crawled out of the back, into the Landie and off to food and warmth.

Long story, but there is a point......

I have always wanted a Land Rover, and this added to that, and now I've (finally) got one, ready for the winter - BUT NOW YOUR TELLING ME MY FUEL WILL FREEZE  :cry:

Jimbo:

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--- Quote from: "Jimbo" ---Wouldn't really work on todays plastic tanks though
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Jim, I think you've found another good reason to fit a tank guard . . . .  :wink:
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Simon, I'll be using the 110 if it gets really bad.....that's got an Eberspacher diesel cabin heater, so it'll be toasty warm in the mornings  8)

Jim

laser_jock99:
It's true- we could quite easily have a freeze up in this country due to minor changes in ocean temperatures and flows!

I studied Meteorlogy and some Oceanography at college. What they are talking about is a change in position of the Polar Front (the division between the Temperate warm air mass and the colder Polar air mass). In a 'normal' winter the Polar Front resides well to the North of Britain. Most of the snowfall activity takes place at the Polar Front boundary where the cool and warm air mixing basicaly creates 'weather'. So Scandinavia and Notrthern Scotland normaly gets it.

If circumstances conspire to shift the position of the Polar Front south (i.e. the already observed changes in Ocean temperature etc) then more Southerly countries will be on the mixing boundry and will get colder AND get the snowfall asscociated with the mixing air masses. Scandinavia on the other hand will be just drier and colder than usual.

Remember- Britain is at the same latitude as Newfoundland- they too have a Maritime Climate but have far colder winters since they do not have the warming effect of the Gulf Stream (in fact I think there is a stream of Polar water off that coast). If the Gulf Stream stopped then it certainly would be COLD here and also much drier too more akin to the climate of southern Chile- a bit grim really.

Anyway enough of the Met lesson. I'm looking forward to some snow (my oldest child of six has only been sledging once!!) and holding two fingers up to the Anti's who think 4WD is unecessary. Bring it on I say!

s.stirley:

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I have always wanted a Land Rover, and this added to that, and now I've (finally) got one, ready for the winter - BUT NOW YOUR TELLING ME MY FUEL WILL FREEZE  :cry:
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I'll be alright .. LPG doesn't even turn to _liquid_ until -47C !

:)

Sure everything else will freeze up though ! had an old Montego where the coolant in the block froze once, when we used to have real winters (and the antifreeze was crap)

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