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GrahamB
31-01-2003, 13:54
Wasn't going anywhere though:p

Left Ely (just north of Cambridge yesterday at 4pm)


Got home (Billericay Essex) 5:15am this morning:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

13 hours
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:


To top it off was trapped on M11 for 10 hours:mad:

Was chatting to a guy from Russia and even where is -40 they still manage to cope. Poxy Britain:mad:

I haven't eaten since 1pm yesterday an am now tucking into much needed food. Was too tired to bother when I got in this morning.

Oh and 200s are crap for traction when your nearly out of fuel:rolleyes: Although everyone on the M11 thought I was bonkers driving a RWD turbo in this weather:D:D:D:D:D
Oh and the rear wheel drifts I had on the M11 last night were mad:D
Simon
31-01-2003, 13:57
Blimey mate that was a bit unlucky. Just be glad u didnt run out of fuel :D
Simon
31-01-2003, 14:04
Average speed of 5.61 mph good going lol :D
dave_s13
31-01-2003, 14:59
'kin ell m8 that must have been fun.

I dread to think what 13 hours in an MR2 would be like, at least in a 200 you can recline the seat back and have a bit of a nap.

Were you just stuck, not moving, for 10 hours then ? or was it a case of creeping along at 1mph every so often, which'd mean not being able to at least get some kip??
Mark
31-01-2003, 15:22
Originally posted by GrahamB

Oh and 200s are crap for traction when your nearly out of fuel:rolleyes:

Agree there Graham, was all over the place on the A120 lastnight, bloody terrible even when trying to move using idle it was gettin sideways.
GrahamB
31-01-2003, 15:30
Blimey Simon, 5.61mph doesn't seem so bad.... then again:rolleyes:

Good point Dave, never thought about anyone in an MR2 what a bugger:(

Totally agree with you there Mark, Everytime we got moving we would churn up the snow into slush get stuck then for 3 hours then the slush would have frozen then spend 2 minutes massive wheelspin just trying to get moving. Found the best tactic was to rock the car with 1st and reverse then boot it massive wheelspin but it did manage to get over the ridges formed by the frozen sludge.

Should have seen the look on the guy behind me's face:D:D:D:D:D
AshT_200
31-01-2003, 15:46
4 hours to get up the A12 last night. Got stuck on a hill, so found the best way was to do a massive wheelspin tomelt the snow and ice under the wheels, just so I could get traction. :D
PhilMorrison
31-01-2003, 16:15
Originally posted by AshT_200
4 hours to get up the A12 last night. Got stuck on a hill, so found the best way was to do a massive wheelspin tomelt the snow and ice under the wheels, just so I could get traction. :D

Does that work??????? I thought it just polished and compacted it into the most slippy solid ice u can get :D
dave_s13
31-01-2003, 16:16
If youre wheels are going at 150mph it'll probably get through eventually :)
AshT_200
31-01-2003, 16:17
Originally posted by dave_s13
If youre wheels are going at 150mph it'll probably get through eventually :)

:D

Was just praying that I didn't do a Keith :rolleyes:
PhilMorrison
31-01-2003, 16:24
Originally posted by AshT_200
:D

Was just praying that I didn't do a Keith :rolleyes:

Whats 1 of them then?
Keith_C
31-01-2003, 18:26
:rolleyes:

It means bash up your car.
Dave_S
31-01-2003, 18:33
Oooh crap, it took me 2 hours to get home this morning, thank feck I wasnt stuck there!!

What happened Keith?

Dave
Keith_C
31-01-2003, 18:41
Nah, yonks ago - my first MKIV Supra
Dave_S
31-01-2003, 18:43
Ah right, phew!!!, thought this was a recent incident!

Dave
TAC
31-01-2003, 22:05
Saw it on the news this morning - bad business, musta been fookin cold :(

I was out driving in the snow for the first time [in about 12 yrs] today - made a complete cock-up of it lol. Got stuck on an icy un-gritted hill...took over an hour to get up :o ...just kept getting stuck on the shiny bits. Then I span it on the way down the hill :rolleyes: How stupid was that? lol Have decided I'm gonna buy a 4WD fro the winter, I'm obviously not qualified to drive RWD in the slippy stuff :(
Keith_C
01-02-2003, 00:25
Originally posted by TAC
Have decided that as I'm a girl, I'm obviously not qualified to drive :(

:D:D:D
Dave_S
01-02-2003, 00:26
Ouch >.<

Keith definately looking for a slap tonight :D

Dave
Ripper
02-02-2003, 19:54
Originally posted by GrahamB
Left Ely (just north of Cambridge yesterday at 4pm)


Where is Ely now?:p ;)
Kev
03-02-2003, 04:01
Just home an hour ago from working in nite club, was a fun drive home.
Was a little slushy on the way there, but coming out at 3 in the am was just blanket snow everywhere, think the gritters had got lost.
Half hour to get 5 miles to home, with only one point hitting non virgin snow, it was great fun, but a tad scarey hitting hills that u would think no problem until u start to slow down and down till ur stopped, but the speedo is still saying 50mph.
Found also its best just to spin the wheels up to melt the ice and wiggle ur way up the hill, police car that came up behind me didnt seem to impressed though, but i reckon he decided against getting out of his car in the blizzard to talk to me about it.

Was wiggling all the way home, even on the really straight roads, but decided to be sensible coming into my scheme and took it nice and easy, and ended up skelping a bloody kerb as the back swung out then suddenly got traction literally 10 yards from my parking bay.
Alloy is gonna nead to get re-coated..... again!:( :o