Morpeth , Northumberland is currently under quite a bit of snow, ans yesterday morning for a couple of hours was particularly blizzard like...


Anyway I dodged out in my Lada Niva for petrol (its love it) and a few bits of shopping, roads were quiet in town with mostly 4x4s driving.


To return home there are various options, the Curly Kews Bank is fairly steep, and yesterday had a crust of about 3 inches of icy semi frozen mush & snow.


I stopped on the bridge and waited for the Skoda taxi, the Nissan Xtrail & Discovery to reverse back down, once they were safely to the nearside.



Pulled my hat down to hide the BIGGEST SMUGGEST GRIN ever ! then drove past them and went up the hill without problem, the folk walking up the hill who were standing watching the three cars skeeting about, also had big grins when my little Ukrainian tractor went past them......priceless



Not the most exciting thread, but its now the day after and Im still grinning...


Ladas rock


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Priceless, I love it

I can just imagine the looks on the 4X4 drivers faces

I didnt dare look for laughing...

What, you didn't get out of the Lada at the top of the hill & shout

Who's the daddy now

Would loved to have been there

It drives like a half track, drinks petrol at the same rate, and yes its the daddy ....



More Lada action today, and probably the next week as the forecast is grim.

There's 4" of snow here this morning but I don't have an excuse to go out in the Sportage which I found last year is quite capable in these conditions when you remember it has 4wd. I parked in an unsurfaced bit of the carpark by accident (THE SNOW MADE IT ALL LOOK THE SAME) and when I came back it was sunk up to the diff. I rocked it back and forth and just made it worse then remembered it was 4wd. I pulled the little lever back to 4H and just drove out.

Do you fill up at Bedlington spa BP in Bedlington?

Your Niva will have proper M&S tyres driving on snow tyres make a bigger difference than 4wd, I have seen Range Rovers on ultra low profile unable to move compacted snow Army Land Rovers on old fashioned bar grip tyres stuck when I could keep moving.


I am now looking really smug having just ordered snow chains off Ebay --- it would be ironic if they are deliver late because of the weather.

It's just like ice road truckers on here today
For them that don't know its on sky tv

We had a little snow last night, 30cm, wife took my Jeep Cherokee to work instead of her Mazda 3 GT, so it's out to blow the snow off the driveway.

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Originally posted by britishtrident
Your Niva will have proper M&S tyres driving on snow tyres make a bigger difference than 4wd, I have seen Range Rovers on ultra low profile unable to move compacted snow Army Land Rovers on old fashioned bar grip tyres stuck when I could keep moving.


I am now looking really smug having just ordered snow chains off Ebay --- it would be ironic if they are deliver late because of the weather.

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Originally posted by T66

Top tip from someone who lived in the sticks for a number of years near Keilder, Colway rally tyres are the dogs bits...


My old Cavalier on Colways would go most places a 4x4 on low profiles wouldnt..

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