T66
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 09:04 AM |
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Northumberland Snow - Smugness
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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bonzoronnie
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 09:10 AM |
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Priceless, I love it 
I can just imagine the looks on the 4X4 drivers faces
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T66
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 09:14 AM |
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I didnt dare look for laughing...
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bonzoronnie
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 09:18 AM |
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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
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T66
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 09:31 AM |
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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.
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Peteff
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 10:11 AM |
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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.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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omega0684
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 11:55 AM |
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Do you fill up at Bedlington spa BP in Bedlington?
I love Pinto's, even if i did get mine from P&O!
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britishtrident
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 01:05 PM |
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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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jacko
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 01:56 PM |
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It's just like ice road truckers on here today
For them that don't know its on sky tv
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Canada EH!
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 03:18 PM |
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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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T66
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| posted on 27/11/10 at 06:01 PM |
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quote:
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.
Chains are good, but you will find fitting them to wet slushy wheels a delight, and then removing them when they have been used and tightened even
better..
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..
Chains are more suited to hardcore offroad use or industry working in the woods ie Logging trucks.
Once out of the wood with chains on, you want them off as soon as you can.
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zilspeed
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| posted on 28/11/10 at 08:53 AM |
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quote:
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..
Unfortunately, Colway are no more.
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