Am I the first?

[Howard]

The tyres will be fine , low profile tyres ( presume yours are ? ) are toilet in the snow , the tread fills up with compacted snow and turns the tyre into a slick.

 

[stumpy1]

Believe me it does happen in automatics in drive even with the foot off the throttle! If your car is still on its "warm up cycle" where the idle speed is raised its fully worse! You only have to end up a couple of feet beyond the halt sign at a T junction once to appreciate the wisdom of Dieselman's words!

It's the same when coming off wheel ramps under the back wheels. I was coming off mine yesterday but the fast idle spat the ramps a good 15 feet out from under the car!

 

[nick mercedes]

Leaving mine where it is until the snow has gone ....

V8's , fat low profiles , and snow are a recipe for disaster.

A clk cab with amgs in the snow:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7864395.stm

 

[fabes]

I'm going to give myself a damn good thrashing!

Osf wing creased as well as nearly every thing frontal and electrical on the front

sob

Now the snow is off it it doesn't look as bad and caved in as I feared, but still £2k I suspect, plus another £600 on the kia

No wonder Esure won't take my call

 

[buccal]

A clk cab with amgs in the snow:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7864395.stm

also spotted that this morning

 

[mattc]

In the wods of Father Jack..."feck, feck, feck"

 

[nick mercedes]

I'm going to give myself a damn good thrashing!

Osf wing creased as well as nearly every thing frontal and electrical on the front

sob

No the snow is of it it doens' look as bad and caved in as I feared, but still £2k I suspect, plus another £600 on the kia

No wonder Esure won't take my call

Give the guys in this thread a call:

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=64094

They'll sort you out, could be the ideal time to fit an amg bumper and clear headlights...

 

[Spinal]

I landed last night from sunny Rome... I was so pleased to still have my winter M&S tyres on the W202! The snow posed no problems here

 

[Ade B]

Ouch! You have my sympathy - the same scenario was running through my mind last night with the possible write off due to the age of the car as a bonus. CE is happily under a blanket of snow in the drive - glad its not parked on the street from what I've seen this morning..

Re the knock it into neutral tip - it really works. Last night I spent most of my short trip home rolling downhill in neutral, in gear and with brakes, the front locks and the nose of the car follows the camber towards the kerb/parked car/ lamppost etc...

RWD, a big engine and no ASR, ESP made for a fun journey. Glad it was short.

Ade

 

[CE230]

Oops! At least there were no injuries excepting pride of course.

Thanks for the tips about automatics too guys.

 

[Londonscottish]

Cars safely on the drive/garage. Schools closed, no trains, so no reason to go out.

Ditto. Car safely on the drive. No tubes. No buses. No trains. No planes. Staying indoors.

....and as usual no gritting on my road for some reason. Snow and (later on) ice on ungritted road with severe camber + large engined auto with fat tyres = recipe for disaster

Having said that if I still had the 200SX with slippy diff I'd definitely be out for a play.

Went to pick the wife-to-be up from the west end in 2002 when we had a similar snow fall and she was stuck. I WAS Juha Kankinnen all the way there and back. Yey!

 

[The Dent Guy]

....... could be the ideal time to fit an amg bumper and clear headlights...

Not if he goes through the insurance i would have thought.

 

[nick mercedes]

Not if he goes through the insurance i would have thought.

Contract repairs are your friend in situations like these.

 

[The Dent Guy]

Theres a good chance the bonnet will repair - and the wing too.

Headlight lugs can be repaired.

Grille.......probably scrap or not worth repairing

Bumper skin...... 50/50, hard to tell with one photo.

How bad is the Kia? It might be worth sorting it all out without making a claim. Depends how cheaply he can get it done for.

 

[The Dent Guy]

Contract repairs are your friend in situations like these.

Sounds interesting. Can you elaborate on this?

 

[rf065]

I landed last night from sunny Rome... I was so pleased to still have my winter M&S tyres on the W202! The snow posed no problems here

Apparently the winters in the UK are not bad enough to warrant winter tyres, or so I'm told every time you tell anyone how good they are!

Russ

 

[nick mercedes]

Sounds interesting. Can you elaborate on this?

A contract repair is where a bodyshop agrees a lump sum settlement with the engineer, that way used or non standard parts can be used.

The customer still has to sign off the repair as ususal.

Handy for when an older car is likely to be written off otherwise.

 

[fabes]

Nick

Thanks, but I'll be using their guys as I have checked them out with the fleet guys I appointed for work (and I trust them) and I suspect they will play it down the line so not to jeopadise their contract

Plus I get to drive a Micra around for a few day (punishment enough)

Still, if I could drop a bumper etc on.....

Kia will get the full monty treatement as I feel bl**dy awful and I know them, so its the right thing to do - its not my money anyway (protected ncd)

And.. there was a bodge repair done just before I go the car that...when the sun hits it right... so I'll see if its affordable whilst they are mixing the paint up.

Still peeved!

 

[A210AMG]

Get the complet CLC front end

would it fit even if you could?

 

[kwakdonut]

I managed to take a chunk out of my missus Alloy wheel this afternoon - I wanted to go to the left, car wanted to go straight on, cue kerb and wheel at slightly wrong angle......thunk!

Not as bad as a head on though....