Anyone in the west midlands been driving today?
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Just asking really, have tried the last couple of days but my car is struggling to get out of the end of my road. So i've just given up rather than attempting to get anywhere and potentially getting stuck or causing an accident. Haven't tried yet today but does anyone know what the roads are like today (un-treated side roads)
Last night was quite difficult around Worcester simply due to traffic volume, but away from that could just drive about, proper tyres.
The day before Sunday in Worcester was real tricky, even with winter tyres, extensive patches of black ice, even managed to trigger my ABS and traction control a couple of times which shows how slippery it was..
The day before Sunday in Worcester was real tricky, even with winter tyres, extensive patches of black ice, even managed to trigger my ABS and traction control a couple of times which shows how slippery it was..
F i F said:
Last night was quite difficult around Worcester simply due to traffic volume, but away from that could just drive about, proper tyres.
The day before Sunday in Worcester was real tricky, even with winter tyres, extensive patches of black ice, even managed to trigger my ABS and traction control a couple of times which shows how slippery it was..
The roads seem a lot better today, from a pedestrians point of view.The day before Sunday in Worcester was real tricky, even with winter tyres, extensive patches of black ice, even managed to trigger my ABS and traction control a couple of times which shows how slippery it was..
I am a pedestrian because I have an "ultimate driving machine", and in the snow it becomes an "ultimate driving nightmare"
I could probably get it off the estate tonight, but it'd take ages to dig it out, I'm only in the workshop tomorrow, which is about half a mile, so walking it is !
I braved it from Leamington this morning to central Birmingham, there is a LOT more snow around Leam / Warwick than in Birmingham. The motorway was fine, just the smaller roads around town are bad.
In fact the very worst road of the day is the road I live on! Must be a foot of snow on it in places, really struggled to make it back up but a bit of steering waggle got me enough purchase on the snow to make it to the drive.
Missing my old Rover Tomcat with it's LSD but despite hankering after a 4x4 again this year I've got to say that the snow hasn't stopped me driving anywhere. I think the 4x4 owners are secretly gutted seeing so many 'normal' cars about still!
In fact the very worst road of the day is the road I live on! Must be a foot of snow on it in places, really struggled to make it back up but a bit of steering waggle got me enough purchase on the snow to make it to the drive.
Missing my old Rover Tomcat with it's LSD but despite hankering after a 4x4 again this year I've got to say that the snow hasn't stopped me driving anywhere. I think the 4x4 owners are secretly gutted seeing so many 'normal' cars about still!
Had a lot of snow recently. It is bad out there. My mrs car is on summer tyres and the abs butts in all the time. The traction is very poor too and stopping distances at least 4x longer.
I've put winter tyres on my 335 and it's 10x better. ABS never kicks in and will go up anything. Best money every spent on my car.
I've put winter tyres on my 335 and it's 10x better. ABS never kicks in and will go up anything. Best money every spent on my car.
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