Plenty of plonkers out this morning, seem to think that as lots of the roads have been gritted that can drive like Schumacher, the amount of twisted metal out there proves how wrong they are, TMC has put a nice sea of red on the satnav to show where they lost it
About 3 inches at home and it's still coming down, bit less here at work though The End
24th Jan 2007 10:33 am
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Its thawing here Salisbury Plain isn't south coast btw its opp norf Quite right JMC 4x0 is 0. There is an awful lot of momentum with a D3 it is easy to feel invincible and then be shown you're not DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
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24th Jan 2007 10:50 am
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The airport road (Pelyma might know it) was entertaining this morning. The Rover in front of me fell off, I nearly got swiped by a crazy Metro and there was some Portuguese bloke out pulling handbrake turns Also got tailgated which I thought was fairly stupid.... I know I was doing 10mph but THE ROAD IS SHEET ICE
The beach looked amazing with snow on 8)06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
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24th Jan 2007 10:54 am
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Martin wrote:
The beach looked amazing with snow on 8)
And the odd container??
24th Jan 2007 10:59 am
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Saw some guy in a BMW round the corner from me, deliberately turn off his t/c and then welly it whilst turning the corner (ungritted minor road) whilst i was walking the youngest to school.... said some unmentionables under my breath so my youngest couldn't hear.
Rant time : Makes my blood boil it does. If he wants to be a smear on the road, fine go and do it, but keep me and my family out of it. Rant over.
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24th Jan 2007 11:07 am
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Last year here in Sunny Swindon, we had an unforcast snow-storm, complete with deep purple sheet lightning in the snow clouds. Lasted about 30 minutes during which it put down about 3 inches of snow, and then carried on as a light blizzard to ensure continued bad visibility.
Carnage.
Most people were going slow and steady as there was virtually no traction, but all the exceptions were 4x4s.
In the traffic chaos it took me about 20 minutes to crawl along a road that normally takes two, during which the queue was overtaken by a Nissan Patrol doing about 45MPH (it's a 30 zone). He was followed Mexican wave syle by horns and shouts as people/cars were deluged in slush.
He vanished into the murk and I just hoped he didn't kill someone.
15 minutes later, there he was at a traffic island, with the rear wheel, wishbone and drive shaft sat a couple of metres away from his 3x3, having tried and failed to stop. He was shouting angrily on the mobile, no doubt fueled by the taunts and jeers of the cars filing past.
I'm a helpful fellow on the whole, so I wound down my window to assist.
"It'll take more than a tin of damp start to fix that you reckless !" I shouted. Yep, that helped a lot; I felt Soooo much better Dr. Ian Malcolm:
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
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24th Jan 2007 11:11 am
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It snowed ...I'm in work 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
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24th Jan 2007 11:17 am
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dickgriff wrote:
It's snowed ...I'm in work
I know the feeling 06 D3 SE / 15 LR D90 XS SW / 88 LR 90 Td5 / 68 BMW 2000 ti
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24th Jan 2007 11:19 am
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We've had no snow, life is sooooooooo unfair!
24th Jan 2007 11:46 am
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sounds like people are still thinking that 4WD can beat the laws of phsyics.
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24th Jan 2007 12:02 pm
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Martin I know the road you mean, lots of crazy Portugese and Poles everywhere in Sussex I'm afraid.
You quite often find that the area of Shoreham through to Chichester has different weather to the rest of the coast and very different to those north of the downs.
Its thawing rapidly here DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
D4 HSE Lux - Montalcino Red Gone
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I'm actually thinking of taking the motorbike out today......
Blue skys, sunshine, green fields and dry black tarmac
Wouldn't refuse some snow though. They are all ski-ing about 30 miles west of here
24th Jan 2007 1:44 pm
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fisherman wrote:
Oh what fun it is to ride.
Am I the only one here who is wondering how the 5 perfectly/evenly spaced circular patches in the snow on the bonnet formed? IE - 05 D3 TDV6 HSE - Zambezi Silver
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24th Jan 2007 2:51 pm
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Residual heat in the rad rising up and perhaps under the bonnet, are there 5 perfectly spaced holes that only have the bonnet skin and therefore took more warmth through to the snow as opposed perhaps to the tubing or pressed shapes that strengten the bonnet stopping the heat getting through?
I found a slight design flaw following the snow this morning: I went out to warm the D3 up this morning, opened driver's door, started engine and leant in to switch on heated seats and front & rear screens. What I'd forgotten was that I had the wipers on 'intermittent' and the auto-sense functioned perfectly: started the wipers and dumped a ton of snow off the screen all over me and in the driver's footwell and door-bins
An interlock to stop the wipers operating when the door is open would be good. Or am I just a numpty? Anyone else do the same?
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Salisbury Plain isn't south coast btw its opp norf 
Quite right JMC 4x0 is 0. There is an awful lot of momentum with a D3 it is easy to feel invincible and then be shown you're not 
!" I shouted. Yep, that helped a lot; I felt Soooo much better 
