Snow? Bright blue clear skies here and the top down for a Sunday run out.

 

Snow? Wassat then? 29c here.

 

Might be worth spending £600 on winters for the Golf, being the usual toddler wagon and more likely to be on minor roads (no pun intended)? Agree about the BM, since your commute is on mainly gritted roads. Today for the first time I thought about fitting mine on the beemer as I gunned it a tad too much leaving f-i-l's place - very easy to do. Even if you don't get ice as such, below about 10 C degrees they warm up quicker, so even if we are not iced up they should provide higher levels of grip in cold weather.

@john57: good point about the Smart but ours doesn't commute only does discretionary driving. If it is seriously dangerous we can use Shanks's pony as we only live 50 yards from village shop and a butcher's. Not much more to the village PO and GP surgery / pharmacy. With the pub about halfway

 

I never felt the need for winter tyres for the car and they don't do winter tyres for the bike.

People need to sort their sh1t out and learn to drive. The Scandinavians manage it, perhaps we can?

 

It was skidmatic around Saffron walden this morning when I went the long way tennis.

Very patchy bit of black ice here and there and lots of frozen puddles.

Nguru would know about scandivanian driving , are studded tyres not the norm in the depths of winter over there !

 

The scandies have winter tyres

Its been a while since i've driven country roads in snow but the Guff struggled. ABS and TC were not helping. I think you'd be struggling to safely exceed 15mph safely and with other cars on the road probably less as you'll want to steer well clear

No way our car would even ponder going up the drive at home (fairly steep)

 

I've just witnessed a Focus ST drive past with a nine inch square piece of windscreen cleared, it's not the weather that worries me it's the nuts connected to the steering wheel.

BTW don't Fords have heated windscreens?

 

Yeah I thought they had embedded heating wires.

No snow here and fairly dry roads but still -4C on the way to work with people driving and overtaking like its a summers day, absolutely trusting that the car will grip the same as it always does ! They are the ones who then have a nice story for the pub regarding "black ice and ditches"

 

Load of snow here in Derbyshire, had a wedding to go to on Sat 27th (in the peak district !!) went in the wifes civic 5 of us including the wife and 2 daughters in their finery, me and my son in law in suits, fricking sat nav took us over some bloody stupid roads, very steep narrow roads which had obviously not been treated. Long story short we got stuck on this slope couldn't go forwards or backwards, but with a bit of forwards and backwards rocking we made it to the top of this slope, the snow was a foot thick there but we still made it, when we got to a main road it was full of dickheads doing 20mph (on clear roads I hasten to add)
the moral of this story is there will always be dickheads on the road in bad weather !!

 

...oh, like there's always an A- or B-segment parked in the central reservation minus its engine causing a 50-mile tailback.

It's just one of those things.