Winter tyres
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vpulsar
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Bastard lol:lol:
skiddusmarkus
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I had winter tyres on my old Laguna a couple of winters back. Without them I couldn't get off the drive and am about as experienced at snow driving as you can get as used to drive a van in it all day when it fell. I either learned how to get up and down hills with shit commercial tyres on or stayed where I was.
With them, it was like driving in the wet and didn't struggle anywhere. They're not great in the summer though, braking distance increases and they don't corner so well.
With them, it was like driving in the wet and didn't struggle anywhere. They're not great in the summer though, braking distance increases and they don't corner so well.
skiddusmarkus
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Despite the old adage of sticking it in a high gear and letting the revs take it(true most of the time), sometimes this is the only way on a hill. It wrecks your tyres though as they overheat quickly.
vpulsar
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I used to find the best way up a hill in the ice and snow for a rear wheel drive car/van is to turn around and reverse up.
skiddusmarkus
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Yeah have done that too Rob but a lot of places I was delivering were double parked residential areas and needed to be able to see as much as possible. I started keeping a shovel and a box of grit behind my seat for the really tricky bits.
skiddusmarkus
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And you mean fwd as if you reversed a rwd up the weight would transfer to the front axle and reduce grip 
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vpulsar
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And you mean fwd as if you reversed a rwd up the weight would transfer to the front axle and reduce grip
Yeah of cause lol, What a muppet I meant revers a front wheel drive car up the hill lol.