I park on an incline and last year I slipped down the street wiht very little control over the car.
How I didn't crash into a parked vehicle, I'll never know.
( girlinthehole, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:01, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I had to help a guy last year.
Rear wheel drive Lexus, he had. Also, no idea on how to drive it in bad conditions. The road ran along the girth of the hill, rather than up and down it, so the rear of his car was sliding down the hill while his wheels were trying to push it up, causing it to drive amusingly crab-wise into the back of another car.
( Kroney, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:04, Reply)

I now park it at the bottom of my street on the main road in bad snow.

( girlinthehole, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:06, Reply)

The bottom of the hill
in my case is a long way away, as I try to explain to my co-workers, 1 in 4 hills don't tend to appear in the middle of wide, flat plains.
( Kroney, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:09, Reply)

I live in a valley but luckily the main road runs right in front of my house and is well gritted.
It's just the small off roads that are problematic.
( girlinthehole, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:12, Reply)

I was watching out of the office window
when our car park was all icy. Most people sensibly parked outside it, or followed the beaten path to safety.

Not so one tosser in a big Jag. He drove at reasonable speed into the top icy bit of the car park, spun his wheels for a while, came to a complete stop and the slide completely perpendicular to his previous direction of travel into the back of a Renault Clio.

Result: battered Jag side panel, completely undamaged Clio. Huge amounts of laughter.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:07, Reply)

I find that people in huge great cars like that
tend to drive quite dangerously. Not too fast, or anything, just with a total lack of awareness. They must suffer from a sort of cocooning effect.
( Kroney, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:10, Reply)

I like watching the 'soccer Moms' around here in their big, immaculate 4x4s
The slightest bit of ice and they drive more dangerously, thinking that their cars will automagically conquer the ice for them. I saw a couple of newly twunted Cayennes in last year's snowfall.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:29, Reply)

My stepdad drives a TT
It's one of the newer ones, so it's not *quite* so girly. He got stuck pretty badly during last year's snow. All thos cunts in their 4x4s drove past him as he struggled to free it, all glaring, some gesturing, none stopping.

Finally a Polish guy in a knackered old Sierra stopped and helped him. Really shows the state of English society that, I think.
( Kroney, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:38, Reply)

... but TTs are 4WD....
or, at least, mostly they are.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:45, Reply)

Yeah, but they're also pretty easy to beach
when you've got a foot of snow.
( Kroney, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:48, Reply)

ah, yeah, fair point.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:50, Reply)

I've honestly no idea
how you'd tell the difference between a crashed Cayenne and a non-crashed one. They look like they've been set on fire and put out with a cricket bat.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 11:46, Reply)