Errr well I had some fun in the Snow & Ice yestreday in Kilmarnock specially on the Glencairn Retail Park. NO CCTV so just decided hold hand brake on & put the power down and do a few donuts, Great fun.
Snow rant. (I know, I know, I like to bitch)
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Snow rant. (I know, I know, I like to bitch)
its quite obvious what my cars been doing to the trained eye if you see the way the mucks spread up it in pretty patterns on the doors and above the wheelarches 
it wouldnt look all that out of place on a rally stage at present!
it wouldnt look all that out of place on a rally stage at present!
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suprisingly mine is still clean even though i havent washed it since owning it but to much wet roads to make use of the new power upgrade just keeps spinning
but to much wet roads to make use of the new power upgrade just keeps spinning
More snow here again, and more for the next ten days apparently!
That's three weeks now!
That's three weeks now!
Well, had planned to pop down to Ayr and the surrounding area today but got told by a mate that it was only "passable". Given the local paper's website there was possibly heavy snow tonight again, decided to give it a miss for sake of getting stranded
Honestly though, we (by we I mean probably mostly me) moan and moan about not having a white Christmas for years and when it happens, the person in control of the weather starts taking the proverbial *shakes fist at the sky*
Honestly though, we (by we I mean probably mostly me) moan and moan about not having a white Christmas for years and when it happens, the person in control of the weather starts taking the proverbial *shakes fist at the sky*
Took me 4 hours to get from Inverness to Dinnet yesterday
Made reasonably good time, bearing in mind the conditions, from Inverness to the 'Well of the lecht' (just on an hour and half) where I met a Police Land Rover coming the other way..... who flashed his blue lights and required me to stop.
Tthey were reasonably impressed a 2 wheel drive had made it so far but told me the road at the Lecht was now closed due to drifting snow and I would have to go the long way around
So almost all the way back to Tomintoul.... and on the road to Dufftown
Where it was snowing - a lot. A bloody lot.
Followed a guy in an A4 Avant quattro who 'gave up' when we were just short of Dufftown - whimp. He wound down his window and suggested I was 'being reckless' by continuing. I suggested he was driving like an idiot. He got out of his car and wandered round to my drivers door, this'll be fun thinks I.
However, when he saw I was twice his size and still in uniform, he went strangely quiet. Odd that.
So the rest of the trip was done in heavy snow and ice. Fun. Not.
Worse part of it is I'm off to Dorset for a week (flying to Southampton tomorrow, hire car to Christchurch) and a bit for a training course so will have to do it all again in England-shire..... and they all seem to throw their toys out of the pram every time there's a wee bit of snow on the roads.
Oh deep f*cking joy :rolleyes4:
Made reasonably good time, bearing in mind the conditions, from Inverness to the 'Well of the lecht' (just on an hour and half) where I met a Police Land Rover coming the other way..... who flashed his blue lights and required me to stop.
Tthey were reasonably impressed a 2 wheel drive had made it so far but told me the road at the Lecht was now closed due to drifting snow and I would have to go the long way around
So almost all the way back to Tomintoul.... and on the road to Dufftown
Where it was snowing - a lot. A bloody lot.
Followed a guy in an A4 Avant quattro who 'gave up' when we were just short of Dufftown - whimp. He wound down his window and suggested I was 'being reckless' by continuing. I suggested he was driving like an idiot. He got out of his car and wandered round to my drivers door, this'll be fun thinks I.
However, when he saw I was twice his size and still in uniform, he went strangely quiet. Odd that.
So the rest of the trip was done in heavy snow and ice. Fun. Not.
Worse part of it is I'm off to Dorset for a week (flying to Southampton tomorrow, hire car to Christchurch) and a bit for a training course so will have to do it all again in England-shire..... and they all seem to throw their toys out of the pram every time there's a wee bit of snow on the roads.
Oh deep f*cking joy :rolleyes4:
ABZSTILO said:Took me 4 hours to get from Inverness to Dinnet yesterday
Made reasonably good time, bearing in mind the conditions, from Inverness to the 'Well of the lecht' (just on an hour and half) where I met a Police Land Rover coming the other way..... who flashed his blue lights and required me to stop.
Tthey were reasonably impressed a 2 wheel drive had made it so far but told me the road at the Lecht was now closed due to drifting snow and I would have to go the long way around
So almost all the way back to Tomintoul.... and on the road to Dufftown
Where it was snowing - a lot. A bloody lot.
Followed a guy in an A4 Avant quattro who 'gave up' when we were just short of Dufftown - whimp. He wound down his window and suggested I was 'being reckless' by continuing. I suggested he was driving like an idiot. He got out of his car and wandered round to my drivers door, this'll be fun thinks I.
However, when he saw I was twice his size and still in uniform, he went strangely quiet. Odd that.
So the rest of the trip was done in heavy snow and ice. Fun. Not.
Worse part of it is I'm off to Dorset for a week (flying to Southampton tomorrow, hire car to Christchurch) and a bit for a training course so will have to do it all again in England-shire..... and they all seem to throw their toys out of the pram every time there's a wee bit of snow on the roads.
Oh deep f*cking joy :rolleyes4:
Thankful it's not as bad as that in Paisley, but the -10 degrees C of last night was fun to drive in. Went round to my parents in Linwood and travelled down the hill at something like 10mph, same as I'd done the previous night. When I got mid way down the hill, I lightly touched the brakes and full on lock up happened - evidence that ABS on the Stilo really doesn't help in ice/snow conditions. Had to grab the hand brake and pull the steering wheel a bit to avoid hitting anything - nice moment overall
And since 5pm yesterday I've had no water in the flat at all because of a burst mains. So no boiler and no toilet, thank feck I only work 5 mins away by car
Muppet! Don't listen to what the Ayrshire Post says, I drive down to Ayr nearly every day, and only once last week did I have to phone my work and say that I'm on my way in but the A77 hasn't been cleared, South Ayrshire Councill hadn't gritted the night before, and hadn't cleared the snow with a Snow plough, so I follwed a 40ft Artic down to Ayr as he was clearing a path ahead for evreyone behind.
Some **** in a RangeRover decide to overtake us and spun 360,so as everyone went past it was a certain had gesture to the ****.
Abz!! Enlgand and Snow?????? Very Very rare, trust me mate I lived in England untill March 08.
I think the last time I saw Snow there was 2004 whe I was at College.
Hope you have spare Elastic Bands for the Flybee Aeroplane (LOL)
Some **** in a RangeRover decide to overtake us and spun 360,so as everyone went past it was a certain had gesture to the ****.
Abz!! Enlgand and Snow?????? Very Very rare, trust me mate I lived in England untill March 08.
I think the last time I saw Snow there was 2004 whe I was at College.
Hope you have spare Elastic Bands for the Flybee Aeroplane (LOL)
Might head down tomorrow then for a look around the area and seek out some nice roads for the way down. Used to go to the Uni campus down there so know my way about - just need a refresher
Andi_F said:
Errr aye, guess it'll be an entirely different England that has had 3 feet of snow in places then
The snow itself fears me not, well used to that, what worries me is other drivers who are not used to it and the hire car I'll probably be getting will not be 'ready' for the conditions. Oh well Andi_F said:
When I was a student in Englandshire ('90-'93) I only saw snow a couple of times, to be fair. Even then, most of the area (Hampshire) ground to a slippery standstill until it had gone - but this time they really do have some white stuff and quite a lot of it by what I've seen on the news.
I'm taking my extra-big bungees as I'm flying with Eastern Airways
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Andi_F said:
The A77 isn't the responsibility of the council from Killie down to Ayr BTW- it is a trunk road and Amey that deal with it.
just came back from aberdeen where te main routes are pretty clear, right up till you hit inverure where the temp dropped 10 degrees to -8!!
on the way up to aberdeen on saturday some guy was doing 20mph and holding up a lot of traffic 'making' some idiots overtake on solid white lines making my blood boil!! when it was kind of safe I did overtake the guy but nearly **** myself when the backend serverly twitched so took it easy the rest of the way! (40-50ish)
I only hope Amey are a lot better than Bear Scotland! they suck badly at maintaining the main roads!
on the way up to aberdeen on saturday some guy was doing 20mph and holding up a lot of traffic 'making' some idiots overtake on solid white lines making my blood boil!! when it was kind of safe I did overtake the guy but nearly **** myself when the backend serverly twitched so took it easy the rest of the way! (40-50ish)
I only hope Amey are a lot better than Bear Scotland! they suck badly at maintaining the main roads!
ABZSTILO said:Errr aye, guess it'll be an entirely different England that has had 3 feet of snow in places then
When I was a student in Englandshire ('90-'93) I only saw snow a couple of times, to be fair. Even then, most of the area (Hampshire) ground to a slippery standstill until it had gone - but this time they really do have some white stuff and quite a lot of it by what I've seen on the news.
I'm taking my extra-big bungees as I'm flying with Eastern Airways
Aaah see I just about rember the 90's as that's when I was growing up, not far from Hampshire, West Sussex.
Glad to hear you have spare elastic for the Plane though. :slayer:
Right, after a week and a bit in the land of the living dead (only thing open in that particular part of Dorset that's open 24hours is the funeral directors ) the reports of bad weather were nowt but a pile of pish - honestly, the roads were just a smidgen white and icy and you'd think that all hell had broken loose by what the press were saying :tosser:
Give you an idea after a hectic journey from Dinnet to Aberdeen Airport I flew down a week past Sunday to Southampton. When I got to the hire car 'bit' at Southampton Airport the car hire manager wanted to give me a sheet about 'how to drive in adverse weather conditions' :nutter: I simply growled at him (I tend to find that works) and picked up the car.
It was -1 when I picked the car up (nowt interesting, a Focus 1.6). Between Southampton and Christchurch I saw the grand total of 4 cars on the road and three of them were going the other way..... I overtook the other one (doubtless a coffin dodger) on the M27, they must have been doing all of 35 miles an hour.
Sure, there had been snow but there was feck all there when I arrived.
One of the guys on the same course as me arrived a day late due to a 'bad weather forecast' and he was only coming from Kent for fecks sake
Remind me never to be charitable about the weather in the southern most part of England-shire again. Ye gods.......:rolleyes4:
) the reports of bad weather were nowt but a pile of pish - honestly, the roads were just a smidgen white and icy and you'd think that all hell had broken loose by what the press were saying :tosser:Give you an idea after a hectic journey from Dinnet to Aberdeen Airport I flew down a week past Sunday to Southampton. When I got to the hire car 'bit' at Southampton Airport the car hire manager wanted to give me a sheet about 'how to drive in adverse weather conditions' :nutter: I simply growled at him (I tend to find that works) and picked up the car.
It was -1 when I picked the car up (nowt interesting, a Focus 1.6). Between Southampton and Christchurch I saw the grand total of 4 cars on the road and three of them were going the other way..... I overtook the other one (doubtless a coffin dodger) on the M27, they must have been doing all of 35 miles an hour.
Sure, there had been snow but there was feck all there when I arrived.
One of the guys on the same course as me arrived a day late due to a 'bad weather forecast' and he was only coming from Kent for fecks sake
Remind me never to be charitable about the weather in the southern most part of England-shire again. Ye gods.......:rolleyes4:
ABZSTILO said:Right, after a week and a bit in the land of the living dead (only thing open in that particular part of Dorset that's open 24hours is the funeral directors
Give you an idea after a hectic journey from Dinnet to Aberdeen Airport I flew down a week past Sunday to Southampton. When I got to the hire car 'bit' at Southampton Airport the car hire manager wanted to give me a sheet about 'how to drive in adverse weather conditions' :nutter: I simply growled at him (I tend to find that works) and picked up the car.
It was -1 when I picked the car up (nowt interesting, a Focus 1.6). Between Southampton and Christchurch I saw the grand total of 4 cars on the road and three of them were going the other way..... I overtook the other one (doubtless a coffin dodger) on the M27, they must have been doing all of 35 miles an hour.
Sure, there had been snow but there was feck all there when I arrived.
One of the guys on the same course as me arrived a day late due to a 'bad weather forecast' and he was only coming from Kent for fecks sake
Remind me never to be charitable about the weather in the southern most part of England-shire again. Ye gods.......:rolleyes4:
fpmsl
Well Abz what did I tell ya.
To be fair, Cornwall was shafted with as much snow as we had.
However, I wasn't in cornwall
However, I wasn't in cornwall
Martyn said:
Classic Montego driving there. At least, I think it's a Montego
