Driving in the Snow

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:12 pm

Just had my first experience driving in the snow with the Elise, that was an eye opener

. Driving back from my folks, going down the Parkway in Aberdeen sideways with on coming traffic = FOOKING SCARY!!!

For the people who donâ€™t know the parkway, its a longish sweeping 'S' bend going downhill. Lucky only nudged the curb, so hopefully haven't done any damage.

Take it easy out there folks.

thinfourth · Post by **thinfourth** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:18 pm

SNOW

where

i want to play

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:19 pm

Scary = Adrenalin,
Adrenalin = Good

Biggest hazard in the snow is the other road users.

Best if you can keep near the centre of the road, as the gutter will pull you in. only problem is doing that is the proximity to other road users. Best keep as much space all around you at all times as possible. Be wary of loons coming up behind too quick, and always try to have an escape route, to avoid other's crashes.... all good in theory.

I would always be ready to grab the hand brake to catch understeery moments. Also handy to chuck car sideways if it wont stop... generally it will slow more sideways. Go find a big empty car park and have some fun... dukes pass is usually good

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:20 pm

thinfourth wrote:SNOW

where

i want to play

This may be a daft question;

Play? In Landy or se7en?

thinfourth · Post by **thinfourth** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:23 pm

Landy of course

But no fun unless its lots of snow

Anything less then 4 inchs and i'm not intrested

Behave Shug etc i meant snow okay

The_Rossatron · Post by **The_Rossatron** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:32 pm

I had my first Elise/Snow experience the first day I got the car! The first freaking day!!!

I was going sideways almost all the time, before getting stuck on that hill in Oxgangs - was having a nightmare about leaving my newly purchased pride and joy out in the middle of oxgangs abanonded for neds to piss and jump on!

Thankfully, after a few cars had cleared the way I managed to slingshot around a corner and up the hill! then proceeded home at around 20mph.

Dont think I slept for a few days after that

Snow's a challenge in the elise alright!

skellyjohn · Post by **skellyjohn** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:40 pm

Kev, can you still get onto the car park at Aberdeen Exibition Centre? I've had a few shots at spinning the car round on it. ITS MASSIVE!! And not a bollard or lampost in sight.

thinfourth · Post by **thinfourth** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:53 pm

a few skips though

apprently

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:37 am

thinfourth wrote:
Anything less then 4 inchs and i'm not intrested

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:43 am

Dominic wrote:Biggest hazard in the snow is the other road users.

That was the main thing I was worried about. I was trying to keep the nose pointing away from the on coming traffic, towards the curb, hence i just nudged it going round the corner. Admittedly, i was playing around on the roundabouts, which was fun

, but going down the parkway

. It def showed me how easily it is to get out of shaped at low speeds in the snow, was only crawling at about 10-15mph.

skellyjohn wrote:Kev, can you still get onto the car park at Aberdeen Exibition Centre? I've had a few shots at spinning the car round on it. ITS MASSIVE!! And not a bollard or lampost in sight.

Haven't been down there in years, I do know the coppers go down there quite often to chase out the bouley bashers.

I take it you've been down there recently thinfourth

delands · Post by **delands** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:58 am

http://www.delands.force9.co.uk/images/uldis.jpg

Uldis enjoying himself (keep it clean) a while back