Gearbox question

[comports]

Hi All,

Probably silly but.... Went out this morning (being a good citizen leaving my wife with the Range Rover) in the snow to park at the station.

I tried for 15 minutes to get up the short slope to the car paek and gave up. I tried "S" mode and "C" mode, tiptronic in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th but no way was I going up the slope.

What should one do when in icy weather to get the damn car up a short slope..!

In the end I went home, got my Range rover and sailed up the hill and got to work 1 1/2 hours late (with train trouble as well)

Is the lesson - Don't take the CLK in the snow..!

 

[DRBC43AMG]

Firstly snow tyres, then choose W if it exists on your box and treat your accelerator with a feather foot. Can work perhaps, but not guaranteed.

 

[BlackC55]

Don't bother. They are useless in the snow.

 

[kwakdonut]

Remember to turn off the ESP - after the fourth attempt to do similar this morning, turned off the traction control and made it!

 

[comports]

OK - ESP would have been a good call (I think). I was going no where and the revs were around 800 with the orange christmas light flashing at me.

Only issue - With ESP off, would I not just spin and spin? I could not have been more gentle on the pedal..!

 

[renault12ts]

Remember to turn off the ESP - after the fourth attempt to do similar this morning, turned off the traction control and made it!

Set the box to C (to start in second gear) and turn the ESP off until you get going, or get up the slope.

 

[renault12ts]

OK - ESP would have been a good call (I think). I was going no where and the revs were around 800 with the orange christmas light flashing at me.

Only issue - With ESP off, would I not just spin and spin? I could not have been more gentle on the pedal..!

Yes you will spin and spin if you go at it roughly. That's why you want to start in C. The ESP will not allow the wheels to move at all in certain circumstances, that's why you turn it off.

 

[kwakdonut]

The ESP reduces engine power to reduce wheel spin. So, if like me this morning, you would eventually start going backwards!

With it off, I could manage the wheelspin with a gentle right foot and coaxed the car gently up the slop until I managed to reach an area where a car had been parked and therefore, tarmac!

 

[danclyon]

Hi All,

Probably silly but.... Went out this morning (being a good citizen leaving my wife with the Range Rover) in the snow to park at the station.

I tried for 15 minutes to get up the short slope to the car paek and gave up. I tried "S" mode and "C" mode, tiptronic in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th but no way was I going up the slope.

What should one do when in icy weather to get the damn car up a short slope..!

In the end I went home, got my Range rover and sailed up the hill and got to work 1 1/2 hours late (with train trouble as well)

Is the lesson - Don't take the CLK in the snow..!

Buy a FWD car?

 

[Smiley]

decent winter tyres will sort it; get the smallest wheel size you can.

 

[kwakdonut]

Buy a FWD car?

 

[ray_hennig]

Is the lesson - Don't take the CLK in the snow..!

Yes.

Or the 300CE.

RayH

 

[kth286]

you say it is a short slope.

could you not get a run at the slope, and let the momentum carry you up ?