I left the house this morning at 6am with the temperature at -7, the lowest I saw was -10.

During my 2 hour drive I must have seen at least 10 cars broken down, I would say 6 with the bonnets up and steam coming out.

Anybody else seen such lack of anti freeze carnage?

I saw -12.3 on the dash of my wagon heading from Rotherham M18 to ross on wye, and calling at malvern on way back.

If i remember right only the M1, 4 broken down with ppl waiting and 2 overnight abandoments (with police flashy lights and slickers on windows police aware lol)

M42 saw 1 car

non on the M5 or M50 going down

on the way back, i saw so many (12ish noon) broken down i lost count lol.

all in all the roads were in good condition, just extreme freezing tempertures :S

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all in all the roads were in good condition, just extreme freezing tempertures :S

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I've just seen 4 on the M62 between Leeds and Manchester

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all in all the roads were in good condition, just extreme freezing tempertures :S

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Extreme freezing temperatures??

Where???? I must go out more.

Ohh FFS where i live in Greece we have seen -20 and in another vilage on top of the mountain -30......

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A friend's freewheel hub froze (initially thought it was broke) and I got a puncture on our bikes today, does that count

ATB

Simon

it counts

Mine........ battery gave up the ghost , wouldn,t start the car so I swapped the battery from my van & was mobile again within 15 mins ( van is off the road at the mo so didn,t need to buy a new battery ).

cheers
andy

I've yet to see any brake downs, Though it's slightly warmer here in the south east and it was 'only' -3 out when I finished work at 6. Someone had left a Clio opposite the building that was so caked in frost it looked like it had been snowed on. I have seen alot of cars with ice on the inside of the windscreen.

The worst thing was buying petrol, the pump stuck to my hand.

My Mates sons car wouldn't start this am - suspect faulty starter motor

Drove down to Staines from Huddersfield last night, cars all the way down on the hard shoulder, including a Sprinter being towed by a Micra.

Only cars by the side of the road Ive seen are due to operator inability

I saw four broken cars. All in my garage......

Saw one breakdown on the way in this morning but lots of reports of people binning their cars due to a nice layer of dry fluffy snow on top a good layer of ice, very, very slippery here this morning, coming down hard here at the moment