Snow doesnt Kill Mileage...

[320touring]

Originally Posted by robchalmers

I think why my mileage died over the weekend (Heavy snow in my region), seeing how my intake is in the wheel arch between the inner wing and the arch liner and fed through holes in the arch liner - I found snow was packing out the arch liner effectively choking the intake, that and the wetted paper filter frooze in the housing :grrr:

Ouch!

Thats not too hot.

I really must get round to my Warm Air intake for the Scaaaab

[vacationtime247]

Here in town they pretty much stopped using salt in the winter. Mostly due to costs involved. The major roads get plowed well with sand put down at stops, but the side streets just get a quick plow. That's only if the snow has accumulated significantly. People in town moan and groan about the slick roads. However, as one comment stated in the paper most eliquently put it, 'learn to drive better'.
VT247

[Arragonis]

Mr Chalmers

The original FWD master

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IttSuOLrzZc

Watch that wheel.

(OK, well I couldn't find one of Mr 'On his head' Carlsson in a 2 stroke SAAB)

With Helga having 205 section tyres I decided not to risk her in the snow but this week I have chipped her out and got her moving again. The Rainsports on the front are fine, plenty of traction and steering grip on snow and ice so it's been ok. I even managed the ice covered road to the school today as well and gacve our neighbour (who own a Land Rover of all things) a lift!

The only times I have been stuck is behind others, partly because they are muppets and partly because I carry a spade and I'm helpful. The one woman I did refuse to push up a hill was too busy talking on her phone to concentrate, whilst on the snow with a baby in a seat in the back. So we suggested she went down the hill instead - its not steep.

The 2 hours I was stuck waiting to travel 100 metres home the other week was not fun though. Although a government minister resigned over that one...

[robchalmers]

Personally, our little run in with the snow was all to brief down here in the tropics. it came down friday night. and it pretty much gone now
I was really enjoying the smugness generated by pulling freelanders out of hedges, scoobies (forester on sensible tyres) up hills etc and all with my lil' old olop.

[MetroMPG]

Moar snow driving!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntgwphg0hQ0

[Frank Lee]

No... don't anybody run to the top of the hill and tell people to stop! LOL

[Piwoslaw]

Originally Posted by Frank Lee

No... don't anybody run to the top of the hill and tell people to stop! LOL

Why do that and stop the fun?

[320touring]

Is it just me, or are others appalled at the lack of Cadance braking or In gear deceleration to maintain car control?

[endurance]

I love how the one car smoothly weaves between the pile ups because he has the sense to NOT TOUCH THE BRAKE.

Back in the day, before ABS, folks actually had skills, like the ability to feel the car and hold at the threshold of traction and if you lost traction, you'd gently pulse the brakes. Now we're surrounded in boxes that are supposed to take care of us and our skills went out the window. How many people are actually aware that the cars they are driving with ABS actually take longer to stop than those without ABS? I'm not saying that ABS isn't a great invention that has probably saved hundreds if not thousands of lives over the last two decades, but it has made us a bit numb to skills that were previously standard equipment to every teenage driver in a northern climate.

[IsaacCarlson]

I don't have ABS in my pickup. The rear is pretty light compared to the front, so I keep 2,500 LBS of wood back there to help my baldness.