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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 3828 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 10:28 am Post subject: Stuck at home? |
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Anyone snowed in today and can't get to work?
Maybe a day freed up to spend in the shed? _________________ Various Rootes Vehicles. |
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alanb
Joined: 10 Sep 2012 Posts: 516 Location: Berkshire.
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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Not snowed in we only had about an inch and a half but as I am retired and live at the top of a hill and don't need to go anywhere the car can stay where it is on the drive and I'll stay where I am in the warm. _________________ old tourer
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consul 57
Joined: 09 Nov 2017 Posts: 488 Location: somerset
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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sadly i work from home and can't have a play, also the vitara is having a new clutch today, bugger.
been out in the car to the post office, hardly any snow on the coast.
are you going to shepton? |
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 3828 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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Are roads were awful here this morning, my commute is 30 odd miles to Ilminster so I didn't make it. Its not worth bumping the car or getting stuck.
We are probably off to Shepton next weekend, have been a bit disappointed with the last couple though. We shall stop for a chat if we see you. _________________ Various Rootes Vehicles. |
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consul 57
Joined: 09 Nov 2017 Posts: 488 Location: somerset
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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Rootes75 wrote: | Are roads were awful here this morning, my commute is 30 odd miles to Ilminster so I didn't make it. Its not worth bumping the car or getting stuck.
We are probably off to Shepton next weekend, have been a bit disappointed with the last couple though. We shall stop for a chat if we see you. |
ok not sure what day we are going we almost always go sunday, but in nov we went on the sat, much more cars!
look forward to seeing you if you are there. |
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Ashley
Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 1426 Location: Near Stroud, Glos
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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It’s still snowing here and about 6" deep, but I’m retired so it just means walking to the shop to find all essential supplies have been panic bought.
My freezer is stocked cos I’ve learnt my lesson. |
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petelang
Joined: 21 May 2009 Posts: 446 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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Do you chaps agree, that today's modern tyres seem to be much to blame for the fact that, in even a mild flurry of snow, they have no grip and hence you just end up going nowhere. I know on my old cars, they generally have a bit more of a knobbly tread and they just grip and go.
Wife's Peugeot was totally hopeless, the tread was merely almost straight cut grooves and the slightest sign of ice it just became an uncontrollable skate.
My friends in Sweden though have sets of winter tyres, kept in storage in summer months, and I understand after a certain date in the calendar they are required by law to have them fitted. They are the types with small metal studs and very effective. Quite how our rubbish roads would hold up to such tyres, being as they are mostly breaking up all over, is for debate, but anyone here tried them?
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47Jag
Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 1480 Location: Bothwell, Scotland
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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Studs in winter tyres are very effective especially on ice but once the roads are clear the studs do tear the tarmac up. They were popular in Ontario in the late 60s but only for a couple of years as the Ontario government banned then due to the damage that they were causing to road surface. They are still legal in some provinces that get a lot of snow.
As to why moderns can’t handle snow, I think it’s because the footprint in moderns is so much wider compared to classics by a factor of 1.5 to 2. They aren’t able to cut through the snow like a skinny tyre would. There’s also technique involved. Most people nowadays will stay in someone else’s tyre tracks when moving over to ‘virgin’ snow is where the traction is.
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MVPeters
Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 822 Location: Northern MA, USA
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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I've driven thousands of miles on studded snow tyres here in New England. They are fairly common in the North-East States. They are best on packed snow or ice.
The drawback is that the studs wear quickly on even wet tarmac, although they are designed to push back into the tread, much like cats-eyes. Given that UK snow doesn't last very long & is, in any case, the wrong kind of snow, I suspect their usefullness is pretty limited.
I'd suggest that Dunlop Town & Country tyres are probably the best bet. _________________ Mike - MVPeters at comcast.net
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mikeC
Joined: 31 Jul 2009 Posts: 1776 Location: Market Warsop, Nottinghamshire
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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I've got a feeling that studded tyres are actually illegal on UK roads. _________________ in the garage: 1938 Talbot Ten Airline
Recently departed: 1953 Lancia Appia, 1931 Austin Seven, 1967 Singer Chamois, 1914 Saxon, 1930 Morris Cowley, 1936 BSA Scout, 1958 Lancia Appia coupe, 1922 Star 11.9 ... the list goes on! |
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consul 57
Joined: 09 Nov 2017 Posts: 488 Location: somerset
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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modern tyres are not as good as older ones for snow, imho! |
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4765 Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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Hi
Obviously the compound is different, this was done so that they could sell us winter tyres.
But I think the most obvious cause of problems is the fat nature of modern wheels/tyres, I bet people running round in cars with skinnier tyres don't have the same problems (Assuming they don't over rev in first, that is.) _________________ Bristols should always come in pairs.
Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
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lowdrag
Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1585 Location: Le Mans
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 4:40 am Post subject: |
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I'm not sure that the modern tyres are that much different, but surely the width of them is. My Jaguar wears 600/16 crossplies and comparing them to the 205/55/16 ones on the moderns they look so small. So is it that the old narrower tyres cut through the snow better? |
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roverdriver
Joined: 18 Oct 2008 Posts: 1210 Location: 100 miles from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 5:50 am Post subject: |
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When I lived in Daylesford, Victoria (Aus), we had occasional snowfalls. I would use my Model A Ford (Tyre size 4.50 x 21) and go anywhere that I wished, but modern cars would have difficulty negotiating even small rises on the road.
Today, incidentally the temperature reached 37 Centigrade so not a lot of possibility of snow. _________________ Dane- roverdriver but not a Viking. |
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D4B
Joined: 28 Dec 2010 Posts: 2083 Location: Hampshire UK
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 11:04 am Post subject: |
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roverdriver wrote: | I would use my Model A Ford (Tyre size 4.50 x 21) and go anywhere that I wished, but modern cars would have difficulty negotiating even small rises on the road. |
So skinny tyres are better in the snow ? |
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