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New Law to Ban all 2 wheel Drive cars if 0 degrees or under !!
V8MoneyPit:
My work collegues Transit is an old rear wheel drive.... this meant he nearly couldn't get out of his home town the other morning. Any slight incline and it lost traction :lol: After finally making it into work he added a load of junk in the back for the trip home!
muddyjames:
--- Quote from: V8MoneyPit on November 30, 2010, 17:51:41 ---My work collegues Transit is an old rear wheel drive.... this meant he nearly couldn't get out of his home town the other morning. Any slight incline and it lost traction :lol: After finally making it into work he added a load of junk in the back for the trip home!
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I had to go about in the Jan snow this year in a new style rear wheel drive transit lwb jobby and it wasnt great but only got stuck once and embarassingly it was in my cul de sac trying to turn around! :lol:
Manicminer:
Make it a law that every vehicle HAS to have winter tyres fitted, problem solved
deli hustler:
My Delica died early this year and as strange as it sounds it was replaced by a Suzuki Ignis Sport.
Now the snow came down on Friday and it got stuck, so instead of being a bane on Disco Matt, we took for the localo tyre depot, and came away with some maxsport gravel tyres for the front. Now I know its not the same as a 4x4 bit the difference some nobbly tyres make is amazing.
Disco Matt:
It isn't the car, it's the driver...
I once managed to nurse a Saab turbo (FWD, loads of torque and will spin front wheels on dry tarmac given a chance) home in snow which hit so suddenly that I don't think they even managed to scramble any gritters. I was doing 40mph tops on the open road as thanks to nanny ABS with no off switch I had no brakes whatsoever (tried them on a flat empty straight bit early on, didn't work at all) but made it home eventually despite a couple of pretty stiff hills. Traction control can thankfully be switched off, otherwise it'd be completely undriveable on slippery stuff.
Last Friday I saw blithering idiots dawdling around at 5mph, stopping all over the place, and causing a 3/4 mile long tailback on a major road just because of a bit of slush. I'd have found them even more annoying in a 2WD car as I know from experience that you need to have a good run at hills and people dithering about just become a semi-mobile obstacle. In the Disco I sat behind them in low box until bored, then as there was absolutely nothing coming the other way resorted to driving around them at the scary speed of 15 whole miles per hour! :lol:
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