Elise Winter Tyres

Post by **ironside** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:49 pm

It never does, the cycle is marked by Gareth complaining that the prices have gone up from the off season to on season ones.

Post by **simon** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:51 pm

tut · Post by **tut** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:07 am

Must be different snow than I have been on.

It is driveable until you have to brake, turn, even change direction, but you will not get away with it for long.

Unless you have to use it, leave it in the garage.

tut

Post by ed » Fri Nov 24, 2006 12:33 am

Tom speaketh the truth. We were stuck on the west coast up our drive. Thankfully was all down hill, we had to sweep two tracks clear down the drive. then glencoe was shut so we had to turn left at ballachulish (sp?) to get back to Edinburgh. Some drifts were so big cars were completely cover. Obviously overtakes were impossible and had to keep it in the tyre marks, had a few moments but just took it steady!

alicrozier · Post by **alicrozier** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:05 am

Snow driving in an Elise/Exige is not recommended as you have NO front end grip. No weight over the front and no means of generating any weight transfer...

Saying that I've driven in Aberdeen in the snow (to work etc.) and it can be done. I once got stuck on the small hill that is Broadfold road (Bridge of Don), the steering had gone strangely light and I just couldn't maintain momentum with the car eventually adopting a 30 deg angle to the road as I crabbed up the hill against the camber. I eventually ground to a halt and reversing back realised I'd been snowploughing and the front of the car was tobboganing on the undertray (hence the really light steering).

I turned round and went the long way round...as the 1.1 fiestas zipped up the hill...

Best to find a nice open car park in the snow and get used to the lack of front end grip. You can even have some fun, just watch out for runaway skips...

One tip if you can't get moving is to use a little handbrake. You have no LSD so will just spin one wheel. The handbrake brakes the spinning wheel and forces some tractive effort through the other wheel (which has more grip).

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:24 am

jke11y wrote:No way I am with you on that one - having had to abandon my car in a ghetto at 2am cos it wouldnt get up the smallest of small slopes covered in snow.

Top tip - if its snowing, walk / get a taxi / stay in

Kilmalcom is hardly the ghetto

mac · Post by **mac** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:34 pm

No - but IIRC JJ is referring to my home town of Cambuslang!

Grrrrrrrr

Mac

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:43 pm

alicrozier wrote: One tip if you can't get moving is to use a little handbrake. You have no LSD so will just spin one wheel. The handbrake brakes the spinning wheel and forces some tractive effort through the other wheel (which has more grip).

good tip

will remember for christmas trip up to the west highlands

jj · Post by jj » Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:44 pm

referring to my home town of Cambuslang!

Eh....

. Also my girlfriends hometown!

Plus, it wasnt really cambuslang, it was more Rutherglen (keeps digging)...

mac · Post by **mac** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:51 pm

Ah, Rutherglen (or Ruglen to the locals) the last burgh to gain royal assent. The place of my birth and where I spent the first 18 years of my life.

Ghetto you said???????

Mac

jj · Post by jj » Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:55 pm

Actually, it was Halfway.

(crosses fingers)

mac · Post by **mac** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 4:56 pm

Where I lived for a few years?

Post by ed » Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:00 pm

Just found some photos of the afore mentioned trip:

A048s all the way!

mckeann · Post by **mckeann** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 11:11 pm

my interpretation is that alot of the roads us softy southerns drive on in the winter are gritted, whereas the hardcore aberdonians dont always have the luxury of freshly gritted roads.

i have never had a problem with my car in the snow, but then we dont get the hard snowfalls of aberdeen and beyond.