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Offline chrisr103

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Re: Who's feeling smug then?
« Reply #20 on: 05 February 2012, 15:24 »
Thats in the kitchen, Go into front room & full signal,

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Offline luke

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Re: Who's feeling smug then?
« Reply #21 on: 05 February 2012, 17:02 »
no need for snow tyres, mine handles fine in the snow if you're gentle, even pulled a fiesta out of a ditch
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Offline andybod

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Re: Who's feeling smug then?
« Reply #22 on: 05 February 2012, 17:55 »
no snow tyres but much smugness picked up an a4 3.0 tdi quattro for the wifey on wednesday night just in the nick of time to go playing in the snow this morning and the really smug thing was the look on the guys face as he sat wheel spinning in his new a5 with the look of should have bought the quattro as i just sailed past  :grin:

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Re: Who's feeling smug then?
« Reply #23 on: 05 February 2012, 18:29 »
Had to use my car a lot yesterday, using 6 year old tyres which are currently classed as "close to the legal limit".  Absolutely no issues at all, got around all day safely.  It mainly comes down to being able to drive I think.  It's obvious you can't brake anywhere near as well in snow, yet the number of dicks I saw keeping an Audi driver distance from the car in front, beggars belief!

Offline danny_p

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Re: Who's feeling smug then?
« Reply #24 on: 05 February 2012, 19:39 »
rocking mostly worn avons,  there normaly pants in the snow but what we had didn't bother them.   more snow sutable wheels are still in the shed chouldn't be arsed swaping them
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Offline AlanD

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Re: Who's feeling smug then?
« Reply #25 on: 05 February 2012, 23:20 »
Good work on spending all that money for one days use (on a Sunday).

I'd feel smug ;)

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Re: Who's feeling smug then?
« Reply #26 on: 05 February 2012, 23:46 »
At £40 per tyre.. it hardly broke the bank. I needed new tyres anyway.

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Re: Who's feeling smug then?
« Reply #27 on: 05 February 2012, 23:57 »
mine worked out as free.   bought a car it had a new set of winter boots,  swaped the wheels over for some chavtastic halfords alloys that were hnging about before i sold it.   :smiley:
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Re: Who's feeling smug then?
« Reply #28 on: 05 February 2012, 23:59 »
Good work on spending all that money for one days use (on a Sunday).

I'd feel smug ;)

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Re: Who's feeling smug then?
« Reply #29 on: 06 February 2012, 00:22 »
smug for one day's use out of 365? its a sunday so its not even like you saved a day's wages   :laugh:

It's even worse than that, there are 366 days this year! :grin:

I drove yesterday and today, no problem even though snow was about 10" deep, I drive a rear wheel drive bmw 3 series compact, all tyres are low on tread and I haven't got stuck, my mate wasn't so lucky in his M5 though, he covered quarter of a mile got stuck diagonally across the road with one of the rear wheels in the gutter, he called me at work to come and push him out. :grin:

Then today took it to his yard and it took 40 minutes to get it about 300 feet, I got fed up shovelling snow from in front of the tyres using a dustbin so I drove round the block drove all the way up to his car and reversed back, not a problem for me, told him to follow my tracks, it still needed pushing to do that, so now he's left it there and I've got to take him to work at 03:00. :rolleyes:

Loads of idiots getting stuck though, stopping in a deep bit of snow instead of stopping 10 foot further back where there is clear tarmac, then just putting their foot down when they get stuck, like that will solve the problem of not having any traction, and the amount of people who have just gone off the road is scary, they still try to drive like the road conditions are normal.

But by far the worst thing is how people have been parking, if you can call it parking that is, I call it skidding to a stop in a random place either half way up the path or closer to the centre of the road than the curb and abandoning the vehicle. I love how there is a bit of snow and peoples brains stop working and everyone panics.

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