TheMorphiuz wrote:The Cav Turbo is probably most ridiculous car for getting about in the snow with though. The brakes are useless, the back just locks up immediately and get into more than 3PSI of boost, all 4 light up. Make for some tasty drifting though!
Elwood Blues: "Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail me now!"
Gaz loses sleep for my car and helps me with parts at ungodly hours of the day. Awesome
I dunno if quite relevant as it regards the ice and frost we had b4 it snowed again bt the number of idiots and that tryed to hitch a lift on the tow bar of my cav in the ice then struggle to climb hills was IMO shocking. All the more so wen ya consider most of the cars are new(ish) (2003 and newer) struggling lol. I just had to laugh gently cruising up slopes in second and 20 and pulling away from the numpties.
Wonder how many idiots i'll encounter later on wen take it out in the 4in's of snow this morning has left here b4 we hit the heady height of the predicted - 8C tonight.
yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy we have snowwwwwwwwwwwww. dog wasnt overly impressed but i love it. Sadly i heard someone died in Manchester already cos of the conditions
Well lads and ladies, we also have many inches of snow in mank land, and the dentist called me to cancel the appointment as he can't get to his practise in Buxton
Referring to the previous rants... saw some classically poor winter driving myself with a BMW 6 series slipping, sliding and then parking (quite smoothly if completely sideways) and giving up on the whole driving thing.
FoxyCav wrote:Sadly i heard someone died in Manchester already cos of the conditions
Commiserations to that guy's family...
Elwood Blues: "Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail me now!"
Gaz loses sleep for my car and helps me with parts at ungodly hours of the day. Awesome
Well i got up this morning and the car was buried and i never even attempted to drive, just put on 2 t-shirts 2 jumpers my padded 1 piece overalls a woolly hat gloves and my big boots with 2 pairs of socks and walked in (5/6miles)
Problem is walking in snow is hard graft and i can walk in, in just over an hour normally. Today it took me 45mins to do about 2.5 miles and turbodan picked me up and drove me the rest of the way in with his 4x4.
I think most places are in for a lot of snow this week. Just hope I can get back up the A9 on Thursday to go home from work. This afternoon I heard it was shut.
Greig
1993 Cavalier SRi C20XE (off road till better weather comes)
Astra SRi XP 150 estate 1.9 (the run around)
i was meant to be heading to stoke today for a few jobs but didnt get out of manchester, i did try though honest.....
still i managed to get to ellesmere port this evening even if it did take me 3.5 hours to do so...
2006 Flame Red Astra VXR 19's, AFL, Headlamp Washers, Cruise Control, CD70+ AUX In, CID, Bluetooth, Sight & Light, Powerfold Mirrors, DDS/TPMS, Park Pilot, Check Control, Speed Locking - All Retrofitted by me
TheMorphiuz wrote:It's snowed a bit again this evening, will probably snow again in the night, so I'll brush it off the windows and drive into town as normal.
show off
On another note, I fell aspleep last night at 8pm... and awoke to a giant pair of tit's covering the rear glass on the cav. Courtesy of Emma, Megan and Darryl (Emma's sister and respective boyfriend).. oh and a 4 foot cock on the bin.
At least I'm not the most childish in the household....
Elwood Blues: "Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail me now!"
Gaz loses sleep for my car and helps me with parts at ungodly hours of the day. Awesome
ok so it's starting to come down now pretty heavily. we're supposed to be heading down to bristol again at the weekend, looking doubtful at the moment...
TheMorphiuz wrote:It's snowed a bit again this evening, will probably snow again in the night, so I'll brush it off the windows and drive into town as normal.
show off
On another note, I fell aspleep last night at 8pm... and awoke to a giant pair of tit's covering the rear glass on the cav. Courtesy of Emma, Megan and Darryl (Emma's sister and respective boyfriend).. oh and a 4 foot cock on the bin.
At least I'm not the most childish in the household....
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Am I a light sleeper or a heavy sleeper? Well that depends on how much I've had to drink...
excellent work top score for your efforts there lol
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Nova 1.0, omega 2.0 16v manual, carlton diplomat, cavailer GL 2.0i, omega 2.0 16v auto, nova 1.2.
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It was the coldest night of the winter last night going by what the TV said this morning. Well at 8am this morning it was -12 c here , so how cold did you lot have?
My 2 year old work van took a lot of cranking and heating the plugs to get it going, but the Astra only had 3 heats on the glow plugs and started with no problems.
Greig
1993 Cavalier SRi C20XE (off road till better weather comes)
Astra SRi XP 150 estate 1.9 (the run around)
that tryed to hitch a lift on the tow bar of my cav in the ice then struggle to climb hills was IMO shocking. All the more so wen ya consider most of the cars are new(ish) (2003 and newer) struggling lol. I just had to laugh gently cruising up slopes in second and 20 and pulling away from the numpties. 
