Snow - Bullsh*t

[coventryslk]

A bit of snow and everyone off sick.

Teachers/Social Workers the main culprits at the LA where i work. This country is pathetic

 

[whitenemesis]

This country is out of practise...

I take it you battled through?

 

[foof1]

I agree! The only thing struggling with this weather is my SL 320. Put that away got C280 out, a little better but put that to bed and got the bus. I have to say though, Liverpool has got away with the worst of it so I'm not too bad? To get to work in adverse conditions becomes a challenge so you can p?*s other off who are wimps.

 

[carnut13]

I agree on so many levels:
many drivers ( young ie under 30 or so) have never even seen snow like this so have no experience ..., unless they have driven abroad

Modern "sport cars" have low profile tyres so they dont cope well with snow...see E320 Sports 35 profile!

drivers dont know how to utilise the electronic aids provided by modern cars anyway.Q:do you use ABS in thick snow?

4x4 drivers cant use the aids provided ( especially on the school run) and they should be well above these conditions. How many ML drivers know how to use the low ratio,hill descent etc?

the media have hyped the "treacherous" conditions...as if the snow is going to stab you in the back! I drove yesterday and the roads were clear and no problem; in fact better than normal due to the lack of traffic


The plain fact is we have a wussey society that cant even go out and clear the drive; far better to go back to bed and take a day off!

 

[foof1]

Go back to bed and take day off? Retired in July 2008. Started back two days a week on 5th Jan. Now up to three days a week. I'm stark raving mad but whatever the weather, I'm always in work. OLD FASHIONED PRIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[carnut13]

Go back to bed and take day off? Retired in July 2008. Started back two days a week on 5th Jan. Now up to three days a week. I'm stark raving mad but whatever the weather, I'm always in work. OLD FASHIONED PRIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just my point..so Old Fashioned.but not entirely mad, just unusual

.I retired in 2000 and still go out to clear the snow and go about my daily business

my points still stand!

 

[foof1]

No, veryone I speak to thinks I'm mad, so I am. I can't help it because I am old, according to my work mates. what they don't realise is that 'OLD AGE AND TREACHARY WILL ALWAYS OVERCOME YOUTH AND SKILL' Took one out in the SL, floored it and frightened the offensive youth to death. He now wants to own a Merc and whats more, something from the 80's or 90's. He hates his little Renault!!! A RESULT>

 

[C180 Chris]

the media have hyped the "treacherous" conditions...as if the snow is going to stab you in the back! I drove yesterday and the roads were clear and no problem; in fact better than normal due to the lack of traffic


The plain fact is we have a wussey society that cant even go out and clear the drive

Actually i agree with all of the points in this thread but these two just seem to sum things up for me!

All the best,

 

[coventryslk]

Warwickshire came to a standstill - i was part of the few who made it in to work. Yes, there was lots of snow, but i was driving all over the county, and even managed a trip over to wolverhampton on monday night.

Im under 30 and i managed ok. RWD SLK managed the snow with ease, and i never bothered with my FWD cars.

The binmen were all 'snowed' in and no collections were made

Teachers, Binmen, Social Workers, Psychologists (thousands of them - they work in Burger King) Dole Dossers, bad parents - THIS country doesnt need them! swap them all for some hard working Eastern Europeans and the UK would be a great place to be.

When i am PM...... i need funding for a new political party...

It seems the majority of UK residents are greedy bastards.... loans, new cars, expensive houses, pay increases - credit crunch? what credit crunch? the banks are all doing well selling loans with 9% APR and paying out 1% to the savers?? nobody seems to have questioned this yet?

Octav Botnar - foreign fella bought in loads of jobs for the uk motor industry in the 80's and he has been forgotten - while british fellas were milking the industry...

 

[popuptoaster]

lots of people around my way commute into london for work, my next door neighbour walked the 4 miles to the station (no buses) only to be told there were no trains, i dunno how that makes her pathetic? its a 25 mile walk into the city where she works so she sensibly decided to come back home again, and we dont live way out in the countryside and our train line is a main line into Liverpool street, personally i wasnt having any trouble getting around in my ol' coupe, but that still dont help when the roads are blocked with numpties who cant drive, my dads a cabby and he spent the whole morning answering his phone and telling people eyes he would take em to the station but there wasn't much point and no he wouldn't waste an entire morning on one fair into london when he was making oodles on the small runs around town.

 

[foof1]

There are always exceptions. I was talking in very general terms. All points taken and I agree!!!!!

 

[st4]

Warwickshire came to a standstill - i was part of the few who made it in to work. Yes, there was lots of snow, but i was driving all over the county, and even managed a trip over to wolverhampton on monday night.

Im under 30 and i managed ok. RWD SLK managed the snow with ease, and i never bothered with my FWD cars.

The binmen were all 'snowed' in and no collections were made

Teachers, Binmen, Social Workers, Psychologists (thousands of them - they work in Burger King) Dole Dossers, bad parents - THIS country doesnt need them! swap them all for some hard working Eastern Europeans and the UK would be a great place to be.

When i am PM...... i need funding for a new political party...

It seems the majority of UK residents are greedy bastards.... loans, new cars, expensive houses, pay increases - credit crunch? what credit crunch? the banks are all doing well selling loans with 9% APR and paying out 1% to the savers?? nobody seems to have questioned this yet?

Octav Botnar - foreign fella bought in loads of jobs for the uk motor industry in the 80's and he has been forgotten - while british fellas were milking the industry...

I like your thinking bar the bringing in of Eastern Europeans. Cutting benefits would get the lazy indigenous of their sorry ar**s so we don't need to import new people. Let the eastern europeans work hard in their own country and let us work hard in ours.

As for the interest rates, I am beginning to save up some cash (from OT I am working) and resent the very low interest rates the chancellor and BoE come up with.

The borrowing culture has to stop, I 've borrowed heavily and seen the error of my ways, and people need to save up (and therefore earn) what the buy and have.

 

[rf065]

.Q:do you use ABS in thick snow?

You can't turn it off, can you?
Your car either has ABS or it doesn't.

Russ

 

[Stu_CDX]

You can't turn it off, can you?
Your car either has ABS or it doesn't.

Russ

You can remove the fuse I s'pose (Not that I would).

And on older Audis, you have a switch on the dashboard to activate/deactivate it.

The Merc W124 ABS doesn't work below 15mph or so, so on the ice in Barnet the other day, I was back to good old repeatitive breaking, just like in the Maestro.

Give it it's due though, when the ABS was working, the car stopped on a sixpence, even on ice. Don't know why.

 

[rf065]

You can remove the fuse I s'pose (Not that I would).

And on older Audis, you have a switch on the dashboard to activate/deactivate it.

T

Removing the fuse is usually done when selling the car because the ABS no longer works, then you buy it & it fails the next MOT

Didn't know any car had a switch for the ABS though, never seen that before.

Russ

 

[popuptoaster]

we used to fit a switches to the ABS on 4x4 sierras, on a loose surface you dont want ABS, a locked wheel will build a wedge up under it and stop you faster, you cant steer, but in those conditions you usually cant steer anyway even with ABS.

As for all this talk of benifit cuts, at the moment i'm on benifits, i dmages my back over 20 years avgo and for the last ten years i've been struggling with it, i've been off work now about 18 months, so my sick pay ran out and i'm having to claim, anyone who says cut benefits has NO IDEA how hard it is to live on them already, its not an easy life by any strecth of the imagination, and cutting off money to people who cant earn it wont help, it will just increase crime or result in serious poverty, im only holding on by the skin of my teeth, and the fact that while i cant work seriously, i have the skills that occasionally i can earn some dosh as i can manage a couple of days here and there (yes i do declare it) to put aside for when things go wrong, i have no clue how those who have to cope on just the state hand out manange!

 

[rf065]

we used to fit a switches to the ABS on 4x4 sierras, on a loose surface you dont want ABS, a locked wheel will build a wedge up under it and stop you faster, you cant steer, but in those conditions you usually cant steer anyway even with ABS.

I always thought if a car was fitted with ABS it had to work or would fail an MOT?

Russ

 

[popuptoaster]

Hence the switch to turn it back on again.

 

[JEZ.S320L]

we used to fit a switches to the ABS on 4x4 sierras, on a loose surface you dont want ABS, a locked wheel will build a wedge up under it and stop you faster, you cant steer, but in those conditions you usually cant steer anyway even with ABS.

As for all this talk of benifit cuts, at the moment i'm on benifits, i dmages my back over 20 years avgo and for the last ten years i've been struggling with it, i've been off work now about 18 months, so my sick pay ran out and i'm having to claim, anyone who says cut benefits has NO IDEA how hard it is to live on them already, its not an easy life by any strecth of the imagination, and cutting off money to people who cant earn it wont help, it will just increase crime or result in serious poverty, im only holding on by the skin of my teeth, and the fact that while i cant work seriously, i have the skills that occasionally i can earn some dosh as i can manage a couple of days here and there (yes i do declare it) to put aside for when things go wrong, i have no clue how those who have to cope on just the state hand out manange!

Off Topic, I know - but what I think what is being talked about, are not the genuine cases, but the sudden - and rapid - increase of the benefits cheats. It would appear, that whole families are suddely struck down with 'bad backs', 'stress', 'headaches', 'broken nails' and 'split-ends'. Obviously, these conditions prevent the sufferer from performing any type of work (unless it's cash-in-hand, of course) and require armies of so-called 'carers' to tend to their every whim. Housing benefits, Emergency loans, Council Tax exemption etc etc., are all there for the taking - eagerley assisted by rafts of Civil Servants only too happy to hand out money to the hoardes eager to grab it.

Rant over.

 

[coventryslk]

ABS - yes its crap. Its crap even in the dry and any decent driver can do without it - a danger to other road users

I want a 280CE now to mess about with - anybody want to sell one?