I've been having the same trouble. Seven inches of snow here, including a sudden thick fall on Saturday afternoon which put a crimp in Saturday evening as obviously the ploughs and gritters didn't show up in time. I'm trying to get up West Linton Main Street to the A702, and failing miserably. My back seat driver instructs, calmly, "as high a gear as possible". Good advice. The DSG flatly refuses to comply.
It didn't even occur to me that it wouldn't allow a choice of starting in second. It's elementary. What were these designers thinking about?
I did try switching the ESP off, but I'm not sure what happened. The button doesn't seem to light up or anything to let you know it's actually off. I did get a quick message on the MFD, but I was never quite sure if I'd succeeded in switching it off, or it it had helped any if I did. Any tips?
In the end I had to back up, take mother back home as it was obvious we'd never get close enough to the school (on a hill) to let her walk the rest, then return alone, park on the flat and do the rest in hiking boots and ski poles. (And evening-length black dress...) Amazing we had any audience at all, really.
This evening I got back from work to find that some genius had decided to take a small snowplough to the pavement outside my house, leaving two high ridges of snow across the entrance to my carefully-cleared drive. Of course the actual road hadn't been touched. I got interestingly stuck across the road because I didn't clear a wide enough path, but a couple of neighbours came out and helped extricate me.
The car is now snugly tucked up in the garage, but there's light snow forecast for midnight. The petrol stations have run out of road salt, so I may be reduced to putting cat litter and table salt on the drive to get to work tomorrow.
I suppose I need winter tyres.
Or maybe snow chains, dammit.
Rolfe.
