Own Up Anyone Whos Had A Bump

[Big Ed]

I saw an M3 in the snow on Wednesday and thought of you.

PS Spotted you again driving past Buckingham Wednesday morning.

PPS. Bump and curbing free touching wood heavily. Despite sliding backwards on a slight incline with handbrake on and also locking rear wheels up momentarilly with a gentle 3rd to 2nd gear change.

We've got to stop meeting like this - sorry, I didn't see you (was probably still distracted by the stress of trying to get up my snow covered drive!!)

Wednesday will not go down in history as a good day for me - managed to go through a speed trap between 85-90 (literally had sped up for about a minute to fit into the traffic when I went past the police car with a camera pointing out of it on the bridge above the M40), then it took me 5 1/2 hours to end up in a hotel in Basingstoke after failing to get home to MK from Bracknell - lost count of how many times I was completely sideways (did manage a couple of 180's, but they were actually intentional as I had to do a couple of u-turns due to closed roads in Basingstoke!!), and it took me 5 minutes to manage to get up the slope of the hotel car park!!!!

Not sure I fancy going through all that again in a hurry.....a 4WD has never sounded like such a good idea!

 

[vito113]

Used the wifes Honda 4x4 and had no problem

Not sure I fancy going through all that again in a hurry.....a 4WD has never sounded like such a good idea!

Too True!! Tried out my 'V' for the first time on snow with its new Continental summer tyres, (it had M&S rated Michelins from new in 1998), not a good experience :-( I'm switching back to Winter tyres next car.

Used the wifes Honda 4x4 and had no problem charging up and down our sloping road at 30 as againt everything else struggling at walking pace!

Andy

 

[Big Ed]

Too True!! Tried out my 'V' for the first time on snow with its new Continental summer tyres, (it had M&S rated Michelins from new in 1998), not a good experience :-( I'm switching back to Winter tyres next car.

Used the wifes Honda 4x4 and had no problem charging up and down our sloping road at 30 as againt everything else struggling at walking pace!

Andy

Honda 4x4's are good!! Collected the wife's new CR-V last Friday - took it out briefly myself last night and it coped perfectly without noticing hills that I barely managed to get up in mine!! I should have taken hers to Bracknell on Wednesday, but that would leave her driving the M3, and she doesn't trust it in the wet, let alone on ice!!

This is the first year I've ever had Z rated tyres, and all the warnings about not using them in cold conditions are only too true!!

 

[samuelellis]

i was jsut talkign to a metro driver yesterday (ok it is a metro but it has a 1.8 mgf engine with a chip, induction, big turbo and soon nos so it goes liek stink) and she was saying driving her kids to school in it the speedo was reading 60 but she was only crawling at about 5 and that was the only way she could get any traction

its snow liek that that makes me miss my dads old 2.some ltr land rover series III (or old smokey as we nicknamed it)