Hows yours handle in the snow

I live in sheffield so there are alot of hills to cope with! The main road was covered with cars failed attempts at getting up the hill. Only 3 cars made it to the top. My mk1 golf cabby, My mates 66 beetle and and cinquento  8OAnd the odd 4x4 obviously  :roll:

Without winter tyres, mine is crapola. With winter tyres, it's a little bit better, but not as good as cars with thin tyres or Panda 4x4s or any other 4x4 with or without winter tyres for that matter. But it's better than a Nissan 350z at least.

mines pony compared to my 68 bug, that truly will go anywhere

My Saab 93 (NB: A Swedish car) is absolutely hopeless in the snow. Our Quattro is awesome and great fun but as the Mrs uses that I think I'll be reluctantly using my Mk1 Jetta tomorrow morning when I return to work. Will let you know how he performs !

LeFrancoPhoney said

Without winter tyres, mine is crapola. With winter tyres, it's a little bit better, but not as good as cars with thin tyres or Panda 4x4s or any other 4x4 with or without winter tyres for that matter. But it's better than a Nissan 350z at least.

Try driving an RX8 in snow, much fun to be had there too!

T 8O

Tian said

LeFrancoPhoney said

Without winter tyres, mine is crapola. With winter tyres, it's a little bit better, but not as good as cars with thin tyres or Panda 4x4s or any other 4x4 with or without winter tyres for that matter. But it's better than a Nissan 350z at least.

Try driving an RX8 in snow, much fun to be had there too!

T 8O

Big. Open. Car. Park.


…and a working handbrake.

     

an anyone lend me a toyota hilux or a desert bowler???

went out yesterday in the bmw it was that bad i turned back and jumped in the golf alot better apart from acting like a giant snow plough lol

had to stop and retrieve my lower spoiler

lol! whoops bens! nice to know cars get more reliable with age isnt it!?

mine handles great with the handbrake applied, spins on a sixpence in an empty car park, I feel like Russ Swift!

Yeah, MX5 in drive, out in the Golf.

Tried to get Mrs Earlys new Golf out so she could go to work and it wouldn't even set off on level ground, was packed snow/ice though. Next doors Freelander went in and out of estate twice with no problems.

Modern heavy cars with fat tyres with a grip pattern that is simply 3 or 4 lines  around the tyre are rubbish in snow.

When I used a MK1 Jetta and then a 1300 Driver as daily cars they coped OK in snow. The best I had was my old Caddy with skinny commercial type tyres. Once got over the pennines from Littlebrough to Halifax up over Blackstone Edge in about 6 inch of snow no problem, Diesel chuggin away like a gud 'un

my mk1 golf caddy pickup handle rather well tbh
must be since i added 4wd ,, funny when passing exspensive snow stuck vechicals and i come driving by in my rusty pickup lol
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we dont have any snow so no comment

veramk1 said

we dont have any snow so no comment

seroiusly bud? i assumed cormwall was bad for snow ,,,

adaptorman said

veramk1 said

we dont have any snow so no comment

seroiusly bud? i assumed cormwall was bad for snow ,,,

wish it was we have had none  thinking of moving back to mansfield just for the snow

veramk1 said

adaptorman said

veramk1 said

we dont have any snow so no comment

seroiusly bud? i assumed cormwall was bad for snow ,,,

wish it was we have had none  thinking of moving back to mansfield just for the snow

crazy first ive heard part of uk not having snow , mind had to dig garge door out to get in yesterday 1ft of snow , was knackerd after 15mins of digging , so made a snow plough thought chuff the back breaking shovel lol

found a loveley empty car park loads of snow and ice a few 360"s and a donut later left laughing till i picked the kids up lol

i would never leave cornwall for mansfield of all places lol id love to move to cornwall really nice place
anywho back on topic!
mine at first seemed crap but on futher inspection (digging out works car park) my front left tyre was on the low side of tread so popped the spare on and it handles like a beaut first car ive had so can only compare to the 09 corsa i learnt in lol i fear for my back box at times though only thing i can moan about are the bloody heaters!!!!! anyone know of any better replacements?
billy

rowan92 said

i would never leave cornwall for mansfield of all places lol id love to move to cornwall really nice place
anywho back on topic!
mine at first seemed crap but on futher inspection (digging out works car park) my front left tyre was on the low side of tread so popped the spare on and it handles like a beaut first car ive had so can only compare to the 09 corsa i learnt in lol i fear for my back box at times though only thing i can moan about are the bloody heaters!!!!! anyone know of any better replacements?
billy

i love mansfield and miss all me v-dub buddies only see them once a year now when they come down to the run to the sun  

I'm quite fancying run to the sun next year,,,  
I know what you mean if I moved away I'd miss all the local meets only thing I look forward to each month other than pay day