All people with FWD skinny tyre cars are tailgating ******s

[flyingjase]

Drove home from Tesco’s this morning (don’t ask but not recommended so close to Christmas). Snow was coming down like anyone’s business, I’m driving at around 20 mph down a country lane that hasn’t been driven on much (see photo below) to get home and some tt in a French eurobox was driving so close up my chuffbox there is no way he could have stopped in a event of something unexpected, I could only just see his lights in my rear view mirror.

So in the same vain that everyone who drives a 4WD is a tailgating wker (according to most people that post on here), so at front wheel drive skinny tyre drivers

[Cock Womble 7]

a) It's "vein".

b) Wrong forum.

[bobr]

Prepare to get flamed for all that snow on your bonnnet

[Defcon5]

I have 205/45/15 tyres, are they classed as skinny?

[FreeLitres]

As with 4WD snow drivers, I believe it is a case of "my car has got lots of grip and I can go faster, so why dont you"

[Papa Hotel]

All BMW drivers speed, Audi drivers are cocks, Honda Jazz drivers are geriatrics... bore off FFS.

[TXWRX]

had this here when the snow was at its worst, lost the back end on a downhill right hander in town and just caught it, the focus astra and civic that had rocketed up behind me in the 30 all spun and collected each other

can't say i felt any sympathy!

[flyingjase]

bobr said:

Prepare to get flamed for all that snow on your bonnnet

Don't give it if you can't take it is my motto, and besides which flaming is toasty warm right now!!

[xr287]

Defcon5 said:

I have 205/45/15 tyres, are they classed as skinny?

I wouldn't say so, mine are 205/45/16 and I find them st in the snow. But they are Michelin PE2s so maybe more aimed at summer driving rather than all weather. But they don't cut through the snow at all. Above an inch and they float around all over the place and cant get grip unless you are tediously gentle and cautious when accelerating. They don't seem too bad at changig direction once you are moving though.

[flyingjase]

TXWRX said:

had this here when the snow was at its worst, lost the back end on a downhill right hander in town and just caught it, the focus astra and civic that had rocketed up behind me in the 30 all spun and collected each other

can't say i felt any sympathy!

Sorry to hear that, was everyone ok?

[calibrax]

Was out today in my FWD MG ZT, I actually overtook a Range Rover which was struggling to go up a snow covered hill (b-road). I managed it no problem. Some people just have no idea how to drive in snow.

Did have a chuckle at all the abandoned cars I saw though... well over half of them were BMWs. Seems that snow and RWD just don't go well together.

[TXWRX]

i imagine so, they were gone by the time i was driving out and wasn't at speed obviously but some panel damage i'm sure and probably dented ego's

[k-ink]

I'm in a RWD car on summer tyres. Even I get frustrated waiting for 4x4's and FWD morons to speed up! Get some momentum and keep it nice and steady you spaztards!

[Variomatic]

(c) Euroboxes do not have skinny tyres. They have stupidly bloated low profiles in widths that would have been "sporty" a decade or so ago. "Skinny" tyres are at most about 155 section

[interloper]

I am a driver of a skinny tired scrabbler but I was also the victim of a tailgating monkey. Earlier there was precious little grip, slush covered roundabouts were hilarious but Mr Transit connect decided that he didn't need any breaking distance and that my behind looked particularly attractive. Getting fed up with his odd behaviour I indicated then pulled over, he was so close he had to stop, then found he couldn't get enough grip to get past.

I decided in the end the only way to lose the burke was to do a complete lap of the next roundabout. For the next mile or so I hung back whilst watching Transit man try and bum the next car. Fecking odd behaviour considering the layer of snow on the roads.

Edited by interloper on Saturday 18th December 14:48

[r1ch]

Suddenly "wrong wheel drive" is right wheel drive, feels good man. FWD is the way forward, literally

I've been giving lots of room for the rwd'ers out and about, shame the 4x4's havn't been giving me the same courtesy. Had a few 4x4's tailgating me earlier, was ridiculous. Stuck my hazards on and they seemed to back the hell up.

Stay safe peeps.

[BarnatosGhost]

Its not a question of FWD, RWD per se, more a question of whether the weight is over the driven wheels.

If one had such a thing as a rear-engine, FWD Clio, it would be awful in the snow.

a BMW with 250kg of cement in the boot is actually pretty good.

[sliced bread]

flyingjase said:

TXWRX said:

had this here when the snow was at its worst, lost the back end on a downhill right hander in town and just caught it, the focus astra and civic that had rocketed up behind me in the 30 all spun and collected each other

can't say i felt any sympathy!

Sorry to hear that, was everyone ok?

TXWRX


i imagine so, they were gone by the time i was driving out and wasn't at speed obviously but some panel damage i'm sure and probably dented ego's

Where's that damn parrot when he's needed?

Edited by sliced bread on Saturday 18th December 15:04

[Conian]

I hate people who generalize, and you ALL do it.

[Fastra]

But aren't skinny tyres (with correct seasonal wear on) an advantage?