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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: p3asa on 30 December 2010, 21:50
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I think you need to stop slagging off other people's choices of car. Banter between people who are already friends is one thing, but persistent, knee-jerk denigration of perfectly valid choices (like diesel, or DSG, or 5-door, or 17" wheels) can indeed come over as pretty unfriendly.
Or "idiots" that don't have winter tyres :shocked:
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I think you need to stop slagging off other people's choices of car. Banter between people who are already friends is one thing, but persistent, knee-jerk denigration of perfectly valid choices (like diesel, or DSG, or 5-door, or 17" wheels) can indeed come over as pretty unfriendly.
Or "idiots" that don't have winter tyres :shocked:
That's a bit harsh, dear. :wink:
Where the hell are mine. Nearly summer. :rolleyes:
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Show me where I slagged off anyone on the forum for not having winter tyres!
Idiots driving in front of me and getting stuck, is another story.... :laugh:
And look at the stick I took from B_n for only having two of the bloody things!
Rolfe.
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Show me where I slagged off anyone on the forum for not having winter tyres!
Idiots driving in front of me and getting stuck, is another story.... :laugh:
And look at the stick I took from B_n for only having two of the bloody things!
Rolfe.
I agree with you completely. You've suffered enough on this earth. So have we from B_n. You will go to heavenly Bayreuth. :smiley:
Two of my 'bloody things' are in Oldbury and the other two in Holland. :rolleyes:
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Wow, it was said with tongue in cheek but you often referred to those "idiots" without winter tyres which according to the recent poll on here is the vast majority of forum users :laugh:
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Wow, it was said with tongue in cheek but you often referred to those "idiots" without winter tyres which according to the recent poll on here is the vast majority of forum users on their Golfs :laugh:
Careful. Doc has a Golf without winters. :grin:
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Yeah. Neither did I have when I lived in the sarf of bloody England! :rolleyes:
Rolfe.
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Yeah. Neither did I have when I lived in the sarf of bloody England! :rolleyes:
Rolfe.
How did you survive in the smoke having no winters?
:huh: :grin: :grin: :grin:
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Yeah. Neither did I have when I lived in the sarf of bloody England! :rolleyes:
Rolfe.
How did you survive in the smoke having no winters?
:huh: :grin: :grin: :grin:
I lived in Susex. I only remember one hairy moment, and that was in my old Fiesta on the South Downs in about 1991 or 1992. It hardly ever snowed, and if it did it wasn't thick. And it was all gone from the roads within 24 hours.
Worth keeping a pair of AutoSocks just in case of a heavy fall when you really need to get out, but winter tyres wouldn't have crossed my mind.
Here, it's a bit different.
(http://www.b5-dark-mirror.demon.co.uk/snow12.jpg)
If you get my general "drift". :laugh:
Rolfe.
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Dear God. Well shave my legs and call me grandma. You really need winters. That picture has sent a cold chill down my spine. :shocked:
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That was the "hey, look, didn't we do well!" pic after my neighbour and I had shovelled our driveways till we were exhausted. It took a while! And you can't shovel the entire road as well, so once you're on the actual road you have to be able to tackle the snow. There are other tyre tracks, but the snowploughs can only do so much.
Also, having the winters means that with only a couple of inches or so, shovelling is optional. Better to do it of course, rather than have compacted icy tracks on the drive (as I have now), but if you don't have time, or if you're completely whacked after shovelling a foot of snow away, and another couple of inches falls, well just drive over it.
I'm seriously considering investing £500 in a snow blower for next winter. I'm not getting any younger, and the guy who lived in the house opposite and used to help has moved away and sold the house to a retired widowed lady so now I'm shovelling her drive as well!
Rolfe.
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With each passing day we get older, and the winters seem to be getting worse. What a good idea for investing in a snow blower. Maybe you can rent it out and re-coup the cost.
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Thats not snow :tongue:
I'm seriously considering investing £500 in a snow blower for next winter.
I know what you meen, I have done my back in and my neck was locked solid from mon-wed this week with moving snow at the end of last week.
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Snoops, you did your back-in badly last year, but was that due to re-hanging a front door?
You should be more careful and get you daughter to to the hard work. :grin:
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With each passing day we get older, and the winters seem to be getting worse. What a good idea for investing in a snow blower. Maybe you can rent it out and re-coup the cost.
I actually tried to get one this winter. They're no bigger and not much more expensive than a meduim-sized lawn mower. But I was too late and they were all sold out.
Next autumn I'll do what I did with the winter tyres this year, and get in early before the rush (and the price hikes). I suspect it won't do me any harm with the neighbours - I expect a regular queue of people wanting a shot of it.
Rolfe.
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Blimey Rolfe, thats some snow you guys get up there...... I'd be changing my car not the tyres :smiley:
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That was a light dusting by the look of it. Thats not snow compared to what has been up here/there of late.
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Blimey Rolfe, thats some snow you guys get up there...... I'd be changing my car not the tyres :smiley:
Don't want to change the car. Love the MkVI to bits.
Changing the tyres has completely sorted the problems. As we were telling SquirrelGTI, who hopefully won't have to sell his/her GTi and buy a Freelander, which is what s/he was theatening to do....
Rolfe.
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That was a light dusting by the look of it. Thats not snow compared to what has been up here/there of late.
Yeah, and I had to walk barefoot to school too, uphill both ways....
Rolfe.
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:grin: You know its been worse than that. It was at knee height in alot of places.
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That was knee height, actually. I was quite surprised how much less dramatic it looked in the photo than in real life. A lighting effect, possibly, and maybe that that photo was taken from indoors, through a double-glazed window. It's the most dramatic one I have though. The ones taken before the shovelling just show snow cover, and it's quite difficult to gauge how deep it is.
Rolfe.
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I know what you meen, I have done my back in and my neck was locked solid from mon-wed this week with moving snow at the end of last week.
Me too - have been in agony since Sunday, but easing now. Bloody snow :angry:
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That was a light dusting by the look of it. Thats not snow compared to what has been up here/there of late.
Talk is cheap, where are the pics to prove it? Rolfe had the most snow as far as I am concerned :laugh:
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Rolfe is the SNOW QUEEN.
Any takers?
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Bit hard to take photos when you live were its pitch black you leave at 6.30am and are not back to 6pm you seem to spend your time before you freeze to death clearing so you can get out the next day :wink:
heres one posted at the start of the snow on another forum by a guy who lives in the next village down the hill from me
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa275/damo_egan/IMG_0111.jpg)
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Have a look on Youtube at photos of The Red Lion Inn at Blakey Ridge deep in the North Yorkshire Moors, then you will see PROPER snow! :grin:
That is what has been facing me for the last month, and it has still not gone properly. :angry:
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I think I saw that on TV, and it certainly looked deep. There were some of the lower station of the Cairn Gorm funicular which were even more impressive!
The picture of the boot above looks to be about on a par with what we had, as far as I can tell from the rather odd angle.
Rolfe.
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Just glad it is on its way out now tbh.
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Just got back from a visit to Germany. I would have been in big trouble without my winters.
The snow and ice in Europe was bad, but they just seem to get on with it without fuss.
Travelling through France, Belgium and Holland to get there and back I had a nosey at every opportunity and the vast majority have winter tyres fitted.
One for Asker - I saw a Ford Ka with Alpins fitted :shocked:
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Yes Alpins, but not Pilot Alpins, dear. BIG DIFFERENCE. :tongue:
Thought you had gone to The Fatherland. :grin:
Glad to have you back in one piece. :smiley:
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Bit hard to take photos when you live were its pitch black you leave at 6.30am and are not back to 6pm you seem to spend your time before you freeze to death clearing so you can get out the next day :wink:
heres one posted at the start of the snow on another forum by a guy who lives in the next village down the hill from me
(http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa275/damo_egan/IMG_0111.jpg)
That's some snow there snoops.... Are you wearing your wifes Ugg boots?? :grin:
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Actually, that picture was taken in Columbia. That's South American Snow. :grin:
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Yes Alpins, but not Pilot Alpins, dear. BIG DIFFERENCE. :tongue:
Thought you had gone to The Fatherland. :grin:
Glad to have you back in one piece. :smiley:
Not sure what type of Alpins - I didn't look that close or for too long. I'm sure you're right though.
The Winter tyre thing is just normal in other European countries and people seem to think that their tyres are important, lots of Vreds out there too.
Wolfie did over 2000 miles without a hiccup (apart from being force fed 95RON on one occasion which didn't go down too well), 4 passengers and a full boot and roofbox.
Love my car :smiley:
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Hi GolfTi:
Wolfgang will be the same as Wolfie Sat 8th Jan. Can't wait.
Wow. What an amazing drive. Which part of Germany? Love everything about that beautiful country. Will take a Rhine Cruise this year and would love to spend time in Saxon Switzerland.
Love my car to bits too.
Roll on March and I'll be Bluefinned too.
The twinning continues.
Asker.
Nice to have you back. Missed you.
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Hi GolfTi:
Wolfgang will be the same as Wolfie Sat 8th Jan. Can't wait.
Wow. What an amazing drive. Which part of Germany? Love everything about that beautiful country. Will take a Rhine Cruise this year and would love to spend time in Saxon Switzerland.
Love my car to bits too.
Roll on March and I'll be Bluefinned too.
The twinning continues.
Asker.
Nice to have you back. Missed you.
Ooh you rebel you :wink:
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My thread about my Germany trip with Prospero in August got moved, but it's here....
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=163712.0
Rolfe.
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heres one posted at the start of the snow on another forum by a guy who lives in the next village down the hill from me
That's some snow there snoops.... Are you wearing your wifes Ugg boots?? :grin:
Nope not even my foot its a mk5 GTI owner on another forums photo.