BS. I live in a nation with winters WORSE than you lot deal with and I drove an Rx-7 with all season tires for 5 years and only got stuck once.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Langdale Forest
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BS. I live in a nation with winters WORSE than you lot deal with and I drove an Rx-7 with all season tires for 5 years and only got stuck once.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Langdale Forest
Having a 4x4 doesn't help you stop, but having the right tyres on does ;)
Ask the new Range Rover driver where his button is to make it 4 wheel drive. It's hillarious watching them look for it that first time ......
Range Rovers are always 4 wheel drive.
The Range Rover in question was purchased off my mates dad. It's never seen anything but city traffic and motorways. I don't expect it will have the right tyres on it Hazel but you can always live in hope. :)
Range Rovers are probably one of the best 4x4s in the world, as well as a luxury car.
That's the thing Mark, Canada is fully prepared for snow, whereas the UK isn't and definitely not my part.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
This year was the first time i've ever driven on snow or ice and I had no idea what it was like. If snowy and ice cold winters are the future and not just a one off, then people will have to start thinking about all weather tyres and how to deal with the snow and ice and the authorities will have to think about planning better for snow. For example some a$$hole was tailgating me on an icy country lane, if I crash you'll crash into me, moron.
People snipe at 4x4s in the UK. This can lead to 'extreme' personal attacks.
That's the point :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Langdale Forest
Thing is, loads of people who buy them then spend ages looking for the button or switch to 4x4. The other day a friend came to my yard in stitches as my partner's boss had just brought him a Freelander to fix. It seems he thought it had been made wrong, as it had no gear stick for getting in to four wheel drive. He'd owned it three months ......
Also, my MOT man tested my brakes like a two wheel drive (and shockingly they passed!) on a rolling road with the hand brake on TWO YEARS RUNNING. He's never gotten to grips with some vehicles being just 4, never 2, wheel drive.
Freelanders are good cars. Good MPG and low Co2.
But Mark, that's not the point. It's not as if whilst the winter tyres are on the summer tyres are decaying somewhere AND even if it never snows there's still the added bonus of the extra grip in the cooler weather that winter tyres give. Who on here would argue that more grip is bad?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
:laugh: You're a cruel woman Hazell :p You're very right about 4wd's not stopping any better than 2wd cars too, problem is it lulls the unsuspecting idiot (who should be better educated I might add!) into thinking the car has more grip which simply isn't trueQuote:
Originally Posted by Hazell B