Heartland

It's a bit pish on the M1

we now have snow in preston, the smurflets are pleased!! and north end didn't lose!!!yippee!!! it was called off
keep warm n moist

None. Zero. Nowt.

It now feels like we're missing out

It's snowing, and doesn't seem like it's going to stop. No complaints, have been driving through it all weekend long without further trouble other than reduced speed

Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:None. Zero. Nowt.

It now feels like we're missing out

I am sure that plenty on here would like to send some your way.

We did have some in the end - probably me typing that which jinxed it.

Fell so heavily that I couldn't even see the house across the road.....and then it stopped after an hour or more.

Lots of snow. Around 30 cm this weekend.

It's gone crazy round here today. It's snowing it's arse off and has been since 9 O'clock this morning.

No snow but it's not got above freezing for several days. The thermometer in my car said -10℃ on both Monday and Tuesday mornings while I was de-icing. A relatively balmy -7℃ today.

Yeah, we had -10 Monday morning. Only -2 today but it's very Christmassy.

I stayed at home by myself last night as the boiler broke. Fook me that was a cold one.

weebleswobble wrote:I stayed at home by myself last night as the boiler broke. Fook me that was a cold one.

You have my sympathy.
After a 3 and 1/2 hour journey home from The Wirral on Sunday we walked into (not literally) frozen pipes and the boiler stopped. That was even after leaving it on timed.
Fortunately we have a useful neighbour who sorted it for the price of a few drinks. Fair deal.

Our boiler broke down a few years back in January. So yeah, my sympathy too.

50% chance of a white Christmas.

markfiend wrote:No snow but it's not got above freezing for several days. The thermometer in my car said -10℃ on both Monday and Tuesday mornings while I was de-icing. A relatively balmy -7℃ today.

Are there temperatures above freezing? I thought they were just stories to scare the kids.

weebleswobble wrote:I stayed at home by myself last night as the boiler broke. Fook me that was a cold one.

Been there, done that, paid a fortune to replace it. You have my heartfelt sympathy.

Hom_Corleone wrote:Yeah, we had -10 Monday morning. Only -2 today but it's very Christmassy.

I got a lift to work the other day,and the driver remarked that it was only - 3 We thought that was indicative of how cold a winter we've had in Britain this year,normally minus 3 would be classed as bloody cold,now it's relatively mild! Can't remember the last time it got above freezing here,even in the day,must have been a couple of weeks ago.

fun driving in the snow in Brussels today

markfiend wrote: The thermometer in my car said -10℃ on both Monday and Tuesday mornings while I was de-icing. A relatively balmy -7℃ today.

Just curious,- are winter tires with metal thorns legal in your country?

numan wrote:

markfiend wrote: The thermometer in my car said -10℃ on both Monday and Tuesday mornings while I was de-icing. A relatively balmy -7℃ today.

Just curious,- are winter tires with metal thorns legal in your country?

I don't know to be honest. I've never seen them for sale...

Can you buy winter tyres in the UK?

Pista wrote:Can you buy winter tyres in the UK?

You can if you can find anyone that has any stock left

Also there seems to be an insurance 'grey area' where you can fit winter tyres to your cars existing wheel hubs without any problems, but if you buy new hubs from your car dealers showroom, have winter tyres fitted and put them onto your car some insurance companies are classing it as a modification and increasing the premiums

Nice.
Over here we change tyres every winter/ spring.
None of that fitting tyres to existing wheels carp though. A full wheel change really. Much quicker.
& the insurance companies here will not pay out if you have a prang without your winter boots on.

Do people in the remote areas of UK fit Snow Chains or Cables to their tyres?

On the subject of the Winter tyres & insurance, the way I see it is that if you've got alloys on your car fitted as standard from day 1, then use winter tires on steel rims (can't see many people having 2 sets of alloys) then realistically, you've made your car less of a theft risk (I know, silly of the insurance companies to see steel rims as a modification when alloys are fitted as standard).

If you fit the correct size wheel with the correct tire profile (thereby not upsetting the speedometer) then the insurance companies should actually give you a lot more credit for wanting to stay safe on the road rather than trying to shirk their side of the bargain by trying to get out of paying for a claim.

I did read in Auto Express a couple of years ago that The EuroCrats were trying to push through a new law that was relating to tyres fitted by car manufacturers on Day 1.
What they were trying to make law was that whatever tyres the manufacturer fitted (Make & dimentions), you had to fit the same tyres every time you had to replace them, thereby taking away all options of going for a cheaper brand or different width or profile. So if Honda fitted Michilin 225/50/15s you couldn't fit anything but them otherwise you'd be breaking the law. I don't think that was ever going to become law but they did try.

Stay Safe out there on the roads.

Discovered on a local resource the following info about winter tires with thorns. Dont know if that's 100% true...just in case that you care. So, metal thorns are:

Allowed in: Scotland, Belgium, Hungary, Denmark, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Estonia, Russia.


Prohibited in: England, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, France, Czech, Japan.

nevermind the feckin' snow, went to midday mass today and it started to rain on the way in, on the way out the streets were like glass

I've never seen a busy main street like that in my life, there were Tims flying all over the shop