Whats the weather like near you?

[petercb]

Now raining heavily.

[Stubby]

1 hour ago, AJStrees said:

Wet all week by recent forecast. 😥

Just been up on Harting down with the dog . Still snow laying about up there and 5 degrees . Drove back down to my village and its 10 degrees and wet .

[doobin]

18 hours ago, Stubby said:

Just been up on Harting down with the dog . Still snow laying about up there and 5 degrees . Drove back down to my village and its 10 degrees and wet .

Harting hill was fun when it snowed. I popped down in the panda to laugh at idiots and left a red faced defender driver spinning trying to get back up. 
 

I took the scenic route to the yard. Notice the tracks in the second photo where someone tried to come up Treyford Down the other way and gave up 🤣

[sime42]

Looks lovely.

But Cross Country skis, really! They always look much too hard work to me, I'd rather let gravity do the work!

 

 

[Paul Cleaver]

Surveying snowed off today in North Staffordshire 

[Mark Bolam]

2 hours ago, Big J said:

 

Brilliant car. Always loved Panda 4x4s. Being a bit skinnier now (with all the cycling) I might even have a chance of fitting in one.

 

I know I bang on about winter and all season tyres, but come on! That sort of snow is an absolute and complete doddle for any 2wd car with the right tyres. 

 

The one you have to watch out for here is melted and refrozen snow on the gravel roads. That's nasty. It took me off my bike and onto my chin a month ago, and I was on studs! Lesson learned though. Avoid the gravel roads if there is any chance of ice. 

What in God’s name would possess anyone to think cycling in snow was in any way a good idea?

[Mark Bolam]

AAAARRRRRRGGGHHHHHH!

 

Bloody snow!

 

 

[Mark Bolam]

It’s not so much the cycling that would bother me, more the drivers on the snowy roads.

People like my wife, for example.

[Stere]

Schwalbe Ice Spiker look alot more noobly.

 

Always like any folding bead tyres better they are  worth the extra cost.

 

People call the rigid wire bead ones "hosepipes" 🙂

 

 

[doobin]

9 hours ago, Big J said:

 

Brilliant car. Always loved Panda 4x4s. Being a bit skinnier now (with all the cycling) I might even have a chance of fitting in one.

 

I know I bang on about winter and all season tyres, but come on! That sort of snow is an absolute and complete doddle for any 2wd car with the right tyres. 

 

 

To be fair, I wouldn't have fancied it on those hills in 2wd even on those Cross Climates, which are simply an incredible tyre for the snow- or wet. You can go flat out through deep puddles and not feel a thing at the steering wheel.

 

The Panda is incredible. It will do 65mpg if I absoloutely baby it, but will also go anywhere that ground clearance permits. The Defender driver with all terrain tyres couldn't hold a candle to it- simple fact is it was an extra ton of vehicle on a very similar tyre footprint. I got back up the hill, he didn't.

 

People can bang on about a Defender 'with the right tyres and driver' being able to go anywhere- but I don't think that's the case. The electric traction control in the Panda is amazing. On sheet ice in a slight incline it went up OK, but scrabbling badly. Press the button that says ELD and I might as well have been on a dry road- straight up with no spinning. Technology and physics (light weight, snow tyres) for the win here, like it or not.

 

And no, I'm afraid you wouldn't fit. Headroom is the limiting factor unfortunately!