Gritters

[Ade B]

Passed one tonight on the M1 spraying away at full chat - any preferred technique for passing them - was mindful of recent paintwork to front stonechips as I overtook..

Ade

 

[Ian_Mac]

Foot to the floor and get past as quick possible I'd say. It might seem obvious but I can't think of anything else - it is late on a Friday night though!!

 

[CE230]

FYI - Although they are called gritters they actually spread rock salt, it doesn't bounce and it's not hard enough to damage paintwork. The rock salt is filtered at the depot and has a filter on the spreader that remove the possibility of large lumps, the drivers hate having to return to the depot and unload the spreader with a shovel if the spreader becomes jammed with lumps. In the towns and cities as soon as the spreader is activated a governor kicks in limiting the speed to a max 30 mph, I have no knowledge of motorway spreaders so can't comment on their speed.

To my knowledge there has never been an insurance payout for damaged caused by 'grit' as they operate under strict regulations and as long as they are adhered to they are immune.

hth

 

[Meldrew2]

- any preferred technique for passing them

Use company car, not your own.

:bannana:

 

[Ade B]

Use company car, not your own.

:bannana:

I have a company bike - too cold for that at the moment...


Ade

 

[Crazyjester900]

its the only way!

 

[mercboiuk]

I hate going past gritters. It just sounds so painful when you hear all that grit hitting your car
I don't know what's worse, having one coming towards you, or being behind the thing!

Mind you, it doesn't end there, because there's always the nice layer salt on the road afterwards.
I went from Norfolk to Alton Towers back again yesterday. My car was a nice two-tone Emerald Green over White after just one way! Before I left had just washed and waxed it!
Still, I guess it's better than slipping off the road!

Darren

 

[Flash]

Before I left had just washed and waxed it!

For the first time today I just paid a professional valeter to wash and wax my car as too cold now and before I always hand washed my cars myself. Personally, I don’t want to waste time especially when the cars get dirty and filthy after a short trip in the cold washing/cleaning/waxing them. Only costs me £30 as well and I think it is money well worth spent and he spent an hour and half on the car doing it all properly out in the freezing cold and i shall be using his services and having the car waxed every week.

 

[Flash]

BTW gritters and grit itself on the road do damage the paintwork - especially at motorway speeds!!!

 

[Satch]

We have no gritters as such. Instead they spray brine onto the roads which although you might not get paint chips is really foul stuff and cars end up coated with a horrid grey-brown sludge

 

[leemanuel]

tis true they DO cause damage - i work for the local authority and they avoid paying out for grit damage and damage caused by pot holes through blaming driver error

I spent time looking at the insurance processes a bit back and they hardly ever pay out!!

 

[prprandall51]

FYI - Although they are called gritters they actually spread rock salt, it doesn't bounce and it's not hard enough to damage paintwork...[/QUOTE]

tis true they DO cause damage - i work for the local authority...

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

 

[leemanuel]

oh my stars!!

Im a lover not a fighter

 

[Spinal]

We have no gritters as such. Instead they spray brine onto the roads which although you might not get paint chips is really foul stuff and cars end up coated with a horrid grey-brown sludge

That stuff is horrid... I almost lost a motorbike due to that...

 

[robert.saunders]

Is the brine stuff the new type of salting I read about somewhere recently, I believe it was on trial but may be rolled out now?

I passed a gritting truck last week on the A1 and the stuff it was kicking out was very wet and didn't have the usual clatter of a noisy 'grit'

 

[mercboiuk]

For the first time today I just paid a professional valeter to wash and wax my car as too cold now and before I always hand washed my cars myself. Personally, I don’t want to waste time especially when the cars get dirty and filthy after a short trip in the cold washing/cleaning/waxing them. Only costs me £30 as well and I think it is money well worth spent and he spent an hour and half on the car doing it all properly out in the freezing cold and i shall be using his services and having the car waxed every week.

I had mine machine polished earlier this year. I still try to hand wash my car at least once every 2 weeks.
This time of year I may even leave it to once a month, as the only reason for washing my car in the winter is to wax it, too.
I've been known to wash my car in the rain, at night and I've even washed my Dad's car in the snow

Darren

 

[SilverSaloon]

keep your distance (100m) and then floor it and tear past it at twice its speed, keeping as far across from it as you can as you pass

 

[Satch]

keep your distance (100m) and then floor it and tear past it at twice its speed, keeping as far across from it as you can as you pass

No, no, wholly wrong.

You wait until a suitably naffly engined BMW overtakes you then tailgate. BMW driver will be so enraged by this affront he will floor it so you get past the gritter in no time whilst he picks up all the frontal stone chips.

 

[bigbobs cl]

Wait for an exit, floor it up the sliproad, sideways round the roundabout, back on the sliproad, floor it again and come out infront of it!!

 

[Lord Lucan MK]

Wait for an exit, floor it up the sliproad, sideways round the roundabout, back on the sliproad, floor it again and come out infront of it!!

now thats the way to do it