did the snow stop you

[General Baxter]

erm NO lol

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/baxters83/cid_sQ2Gm2IM3B.jpg

[Adam]

Thats just your jeep with some spotlights on, it aint moving anywhere :p

Ive just got home and its really coming down now, 3ish inches already and the worse is forecast for tonight.

[AlexW]

I tried to go to work, but my traffic van decided to let go. Clutch fell to bits going up a hill.

[Jack]

Baxter, get a vid of you driving across a field in the snow then I MAY be impressed :p

Aye, more snow forecast here tonight. Meh.

[General Baxter]

bit difficult, with me driving and no one else,

if the fire brigade calls me out, ill get a good photo lol

[Adam]

It would still get stuck anyway!!!!
More weight just means you'll slide even further when you lock the wheels lol lol

[General Baxter]

It would still get stuck anyway!!!!
More weight just means you'll slide even further when you lock the wheels lol lol

lock the wheels :roll:
i do know how to drive in the snow, :thumb:
iv done anout 50miles today and have not touched the brakes once :thumb:

i seem to be the only one driving normaly, 5cm snow, proper tyres, all the grip in the world :p

[Jeff16v]

Thumbed a lift to work this morning but had to walk 6 miles home.

Plenty of fun with 20cm of snow:thumb:

[Andy]

lol a bit of snow and the media make it sound like there has been a natural disaster.If people had a bit of savvy about them and allow extra time for journeys and use the gears to slow down instead of using brakes then everything would be ok.Or better still just stay in.I did the sensible option,rang work and said i would be late as i was waiting for the snow to clear on the roads/crashes to finish.Turned up 2 and a half hours late.Fine no problem,about 5 other people were "sick"

[mowgli]

bit difficult, with me driving and no one else,

if the fire brigade calls me out, ill get a good photo lol

I'd like to see anyone start a fire with all this snow about........


I was driving to Fenny Drayton this morning & got fully sideways...no big deal.. but I was driving one of these

http://www.ejsplant.co.uk/uploads/lrg/47-5970301.jpg

my nephew managed a 360 spin in one of these

http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/6716/hpim5558small5ai.jpg

I love the winter

[Stuart]

drove to and from work in the nova :D

[Mike]

I was in a Corsa B, prolly the worst car to ever drive in the snow TBH. Needs yet another lower ball joint now lol lol

[Lee]

Pees me off these people who cant drive in snow. Came out of my road and there was a car half in a poor old blokes hedge. They were both standing there scratching their heads.

Decided the best thing to do in that situation was to yank up the H brake and drift the focus into the next road. They both looked a bit sheepish tbh lol

[Andy]

Cars with pram wheels are the best in the snow

[Adam]

Yup /\
Wide low profile tyres on a light car just slide over the snow

[Mike]

Cars with pram wheels are the best in the snow

Correct. Anthing with big wide rims is actually harder to control then something with teeny tiny skinny rims.

[Mike]

Yup /\
Wide low profile tyres on a light car just slide over the snow

Indeed. 6" wide rims, 35mph, 90 left = kapoowie :D

I love fcuking up Corsa's :D

[Lee]

lmfao mike you noob.

You get more kudos points if you bend the beam from rear endy slidey goodness lol. Understeery drearyness FTL

[General Baxter]

one field photo lol

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a191/baxters83/cid_ZFheXfqrsR.jpg

[Mike]

lmfao mike you noob.

You get more kudos points if you bend the beam from rear endy slidey goodness lol. Understeery drearyness FTL

When im next at my dads ill get a pic of the shock abosber i bent then :D lower arm & ball joint were fine, but the shock bent :confused: (that was when i had a rant about Stoke Council lol)

TBH, the only car ive ever funked in any snow is the present 1 wheel power steering Corsa i have? Ive done 95mph in 6inch of snow in a rally car sideways and didnt hit chuff all??

[astraluke]

Baxter why you need to take the 4x4 wen the nova has a snow plough lol lol lol

[Mike]

lmfao mike you noob.

You get more kudos points if you bend the beam from rear endy slidey goodness lol. Understeery drearyness FTL

Lee, this was the aftermath of my excursion to Stoke several weeks ago lol

Note position of RH Roadwheel in conjuction to the LH Roadwheel. This was taken several mile & 4 hour after i got to where i was meant to be lol

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j181/mikenova/02122008072.jpg

[mowgli]

The gritters were so good in my bit of leicestershire that a lorry jackknifed right outside their depot & they couldn't get out to grit the roads.......its nice to know my council tax is spent on such an efficient, hardworking bunch of tossers

[Lynsey]

I'm leaving for work at 7am, oh noes!

[mowgli]

how far is it to work????

[Lee]

lol Mike, 90 degrees tow out :)

[Mike]

lol Mike, 90 degrees tow out :)

Its paying homage to the drifty van i thinks lol

[Adam]

I'm leaving for work at 7am, oh noes!
Im leaving at 5.15am :(

[Mike]

Im leaving at 5.15am :(

AHAHHAHAHAHHAAA, ill still be tucked up in my nice warm comfy bed :D

[Adam]

Im quite looking forward to what the snows like when i get up about 4.45am tomorrow lol lol lol

[Asa-James]

today, i have mostly been "drifting" round housing estates at low speeds in one of these...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/90/245786992_481e3f54ed.jpg?v=0
gotta love it

[Ernie]

Ive been to reading and newbury today in 6 inchs of snow in the astra van.
i got to see a punto go strait on at a corner and take out a corsa but the best one was the women in the range rover (latest shape) went a little bit up a hill to my right then i watched as she slid backwards pass my front bumper.
After i had stopped laughing i checked she was ok then buggered off again in the trusty astra van without any probs.

[Benn]

I dont know how anyone can say theyve been snowed in.
Some people cant cope with anything.

I've had get fun.

[General Baxter]

thats two calls now, one was to help drag a car out a ditch, seeing as there defender got stuck

the other was to tow an ambulance up the hill to atherstone golf course lol

[Lee]

Im quite looking forward to what the snows like when i get up about 4.45am tomorrow lol lol lol

Ill see what its like when i get out of bed at around 11, after switching the eleccy blanket on at 9 and watching telly for a few hours nice and toasty lol

[MK999]

I'm getting up at around 1/2 9 tomorrow, because our early lecture was cancelled due to excesive snow lol

[General Baxter]

ill be up at 5am, depends if i get called again, i might not even have time to sleep lol


talk about controll comming down the hill, its about 45 degrees, i was driving down, but had the gear in reverse and slightly tapping the brakes and letting the clutch in and out, nice and slow, not one bit of slide in about 5" on snow,

WINNAR lol

[EUROTURBO]

my works snowed off tommorow... snow here has not stopped falling even now....and atm is at 8 inches!!!! crazy.. and theres worse to come!!!

[General Baxter]

get that turbo out lol

[mowgli]

NO job too big, no job too small, as long as its cash I'll do them all
it's SUPERBAXTER to the rescue

http://s134.photobucket.com/albums/q119/mowglinova/th_superman.jpg

[General Baxter]

change it to nissan ;)

[mowgli]

change it to nissan ;)

I was saving it up from when you had a thread about an ldv that had no power, & i don't think the nissan 'london underground' emblem would work...

[Curtoise]

lofl its started 2 rain here and suckes poo, probs gonna have 2 go 2 sixth form 2mos 4 a full day!!! how lame is tht

[vx kev]

Nope, think i was the only valeting place open up my way :D Hard as nails lol
Seems pointless in this weather but someones gotta do it :thumb:

[Dan]

lofl its started 2 rain here and suckes poo, probs gonna have 2 go 2 sixth form 2mos 4 a full day!!! how lame is tht

Almost as lame as a ban for ignoring one of the most basic rules of the forum. Quit the txt typing or be gone

[Curtoise]

okay i am sorry i will not do it agen i didn't realise this

[Tim-SR]

it stopped me :mad: was taking the missus home and theres a hill on her estate, the nova wouldnt even try and get up lol so the poor lass had to walk home:( i did walk with her though! :)

[AlexW]

lol ^ Sorry but if that was me i would have told her "Hers your stop... Bye"

I so wish my nova was on the road atm, bit of fun in that. O well

[ade]

we had some last night - not much but enough to see a DHL van get stuck at the bottom of our cul-de-sac for 30 mins

Then it really started to fall later in the afternoon so I left at 5pm (due to finish at 8) on the premise I'd get stuck getting home coz of here I live. Turns out I wasnt far wrong - the gritters didnt regrit the roads and the snow just laid on the top, compacted and turn the roads in the skating rings - normally takes mne 20 mins to get home after I get off the train - took nearly 1 1/2 hours!

[Tim-SR]

lol ^ Sorry but if that was me i would have told her "Hers your stop... Bye"

i thought about it but then i realised that bad things would of happened if i did lol

[stevenf]

not fair :( you have all had snow and so far here all i have had is a very thin coating that just covered the ground for about 20 mins :(

[Tim-SR]

dont worry about it mate im sure you'll get to join in the fun soon enough lol

[stevenf]

hope so. want to have a bit of fun :D

[Curtoise]

yeh my schools cancelled again! i dont reli see why as the roads are clear?!? hey anyway im not complaining

[Riggy]

didnt stop me neither , even with vauxhalls poor attempt at abs , (i really need to pull the fuse out in this weather lol)

6 people lost it on the corner to our work though and hit the kerb on other side of road lol , the fools

[chunk@streetrace.co.uk]

hahaha baxter u still doin the recovery ?????

[RSTChris]

4x4 rules 8)

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff181/RST-Chris/Cav%20Turbo/ABCD0013.jpg

[Welsh Dan]

Is it legal to run 4 space saver wheels in the snow?

[Jack]

Would have thought so. You're not going to be going over 30mph with them on so they'd be within their speed rating.

[NovaLad]

Baxter drive off/down 1 of these huge banks we dived down last night not realising it actually was a black hole of snow! lol... twas mad!

It's our ex school field it has like banks that go down onto a further field which drop about 15ft on a steep slope.

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i319/MD_Crew/100_1691.jpg