General hows eveyone do in the snow?

[STILO NEWBIE]

Drive to work this morning,(wrong move!!!) couple miles on to the "A" road, I had a very scary moment, driving along at about 45miles per hour, snow just starting to come down and I think my rear wheel just hit a patch of mixed ice and snow, ASR light frashing and I can tell my left rear is losing grid and the car steer itself to the left, steer to the right to correcting it, then left again and I expect something nasty going to happen, I saved it at the end, dont ask me how coz I dont know!!!
Anyway, did the ASR actually help or make it worst? I decdied to turn the bloody thing off and I feel I'm much more in control, also, with the ASR on, you wont get up to even the smallest hill, I try to start at 2nd gear, the wheel start to move a bit and slide at the same time, as soon as the ASR sense the wheels sliding, it just kick in and I'm not going anywhere!!! Turn ASR off, start at 2nd gear, keep steer my steering wheel left and rigth to find grip, I got to the top and feel so rewarding!!! :devil: Only find an old man with his dog watching at me the whole time!!! :bang:
Anyway, Drove all the way from Bournemouth to Liphook (70miles) and I'm 2 miles from the office, then my phone rang, my boss told me we closed for the day!!! damn!!! so I drove 5 hrs this morning for nothing!!! and nearly crash my bravo in the process, never again!!!

 

[Hellcat]

I've been meaning to put a bit more air in the tyres - glad I didn't now. With the pressures down the 225/40R17 Eagle F1s were much better than when they were at full pressure.

I tried ASR off for a bit uphill and couldn't hold over 5mph without a wheel spinning. ASR back on and accelerate upto 25mph. Overtook about a mile of traffic crawling along the inside (clear of snow) lane by driving through the snow in the right hand lane. No problems at all

Came to another stretch and got a lorry doing 30.. right hand lane is full of snow again so move across, test the conditions then go for a steady pass. Drive down the rest of the road in the right hand lane to get some extra in snow driving experience. Pass a 58 plate corsa on it's side in a ditch - someone got it very wrong that morning.

45 miles, 1hr30. Do it all again in 3 hours!

 

[STILO NEWBIE]

Just read the handbook regarding ASR, P70, it saids:
"When travelling on snowy roads with snow chains, it may be helpful to turn the ASR off: In fact, in these conditions, slipping of the driving wheels when moving off makes it possible to obtain better drive."
Sounds like they suggested it is better to turn the ASR off in those condition.

 

[Ulpian]

And in real snow, not the light dusting we are getting now and which the government seems to think is arctic conditions, it's better to deflate the tyres slightly to make them softer. You get better grip. But don't drive quickly.

If you ever get stuck at the bottom of a snowy hill and have no traction the trick is to turn the car around and reverse up. The weight transfer to the 'rear' driving wheels will help out. Forget traction controls; careful footwork will do it.

In the 60s and 70s, when we had to dig cars out of snowdrifts in the mornings with shovels, and clear snow drifts reaching to near the top of the doors before we could even get outside, traffic kept moving, and kids still went to school. In the winter of '62 - '63 my school wasn't closed once. People have become so wimpy it isn't true. And why aren't the buses running? This country really is heading south big time

 

[Little miss sunshine]

i almost slid into a car today and i was only going 5mph! I would not have driven all that way to work!!!

 

[STILO NEWBIE]

And in real snow, not the light dusting we are getting now and which the government seems to think is arctic conditions, it's better to deflate the tyres slightly to make them softer. You get better grip. But don't drive quickly.

If you ever get stuck at the bottom of a snowy hill and have no traction the trick is to turn the car around and reverse up. The weight transfer to the 'rear' driving wheels will help out. Forget raction controls; careful footwork will do it.

In the 60s and 70s, when we had to dig cars out of snowdrifts in the mornings with shovels, and clear snow drifts reaching to near the top of the doors before we could even get outside, traffic kept moving, and kids still went to school. In the winter of '62 - '63 my school wasn't closed once. People have become so wimpy it isn't true. And why aren't the buses running? This country really is heading south big time

I did thought to reverse up, but as so many ppl/ cars around, I will look stupid if it didn't work-out. well, to be fair to most ppl, including myself, never experiance such weather in our life time, we only young. but I do see some older driver cope a lot better than us, well, experiance count i think!!!

 

[Ulpian]

Enjoy being young

 

[drunknspike]

started off for work started sliding even when going slow turend back and had a sick day off work

 

[stilosporting]

I've been meaning to put a bit more air in the tyres - glad I didn't now. With the pressures down the 225/40R17 Eagle F1s were much better than when they were at full pressure.

I tried ASR off for a bit uphill and couldn't hold over 5mph without a wheel spinning. ASR back on and accelerate upto 25mph. Overtook about a mile of traffic crawling along the inside (clear of snow) lane by driving through the snow in the right hand lane. No problems at all

Came to another stretch and got a lorry doing 30.. right hand lane is full of snow again so move across, test the conditions then go for a steady pass. Drive down the rest of the road in the right hand lane to get some extra in snow driving experience. Pass a 58 plate corsa on it's side in a ditch - someone got it very wrong that morning.

45 miles, 1hr30. Do it all again in 3 hours!

i did the same on my drive to work. everyone doing 5mph in the left lane of a dual carrageway, i move onto the snowy right hand lane and progress past happy that the grip is sufficient.

i dont have ASR though so couldnt try with it turned on

 

[STILO NEWBIE]

Just been out, still snowing in Bournemouth!!! I saw at least 10 cars has some kind of body damage and I can see alot of them were hit by other cars when them were parked, gutted if I wake up and find my bravo been hit!!!
Talking about driving on the right hand lane when everyone doing 5-10mph on the left. As soon as I move to the right, i remeber what Martin Brundle saids about F1 driver change from wet to slick during the race, " they must hammer it in the first lap or they will never find any grip!!!" hahaha, which I did!!!

 

[Hellcat]

Don't think the slick F1 tyres losing heat applies to Bravo in snow but as long as you're not going mad it's all good

 

[STILO NEWBIE]

Don't think the slick F1 tyres losing heat applies to Bravo in snow but as long as you're not going mad it's all good

Haha, no I wasn't doing anything silly, I just remember that as soon as I moved to the right, I'm no F1 material, I found this one out when I crashed my AXGT into a 306gti when I was 19. :devil:

 

[Geordie Amanda]

I went out to have a play in the snow and it was great. I knew there was a reason for buying a noisy, rough little Fiat. The Sedici rocks in snow, especially with it’s Snowtrac 2 tyres.

Sorry to crow, but I wont be winning any drag races or handling days in it, so I thought I would brag while I could

 

[grahamrieuclarke]

I ended it up staying in Rochdale in Monday night and found i couldn't get the Fiat out of the hotel car park with the ASR on, turned it off and spin the wheels when they loose grip, they generate some heat and melt the snow and i had some forward motion!!!!

 

[STILO NEWBIE]

I went out to have a play in the snow and it was great. I knew there was a reason for buying a noisy, rough little Fiat. The Sedici rocks in snow, especially with it’s Snowtrac 2 tyres.

Sorry to crow, but I wont be winning any drag races or handling days in it, so I thought I would brag while I could

You got the Sedici right? was it any good on the snow? we are consider buying a 2nd car for the lady, something 4x4, Like the panda, but it is too slow even on 1.3mjet form, the sedici 1.9jtd might just fit the bill.

 

[Geordie Amanda]

You got the Sedici right? was it any good on the snow? we are consider buying a 2nd car for the lady, something 4x4, Like the panda, but it is too slow even on 1.3mjet form, the sedici 1.9jtd might just fit the bill.

I’ve written a couple of threads on here somewhere about it, the most recent about the Sedici’s performance in the snow. In short, with the Snowtrac 2 tyres, the Sedici was unstoppable in the snow whilst I was in the North East last week. No hill was to steep, no snow/ice was too slippy.

The car is quite brisk and reasonably economical (around 43 mpg average for me) but it is quite a rough engine in the Sedici and you must test drive one from the engine being stone cold (don’t let the salesman warm the car up!). There is a well documented problem with the car having problems going into 2nd gear when the gearbox is properly cold. It is a bit of a problem, but I am willing to put up with it in return for the advantages of a small, economical and surprisingly good Soft Roader. It isn’t everyone’s cup of tea and it certainly isn’t the most refined of cars, but I like it.