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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2017 22:50:50 GMT
Lovely day for that road. Pity about the average speed cameras....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2017 22:55:42 GMT
There are no speed cameras here. There is pretty much no rolling enforcement.
There is only periodic roadblocks checking your documents. Not having the correct documents here is taken very seriously.
But speeding? Pah, drive as fast as you like. One way streets, red lights, speed limits??? Nobody cares.
Get caught without your licence in your pocket? Your car is crushed.
Drink driving is serious, but only if you have an accident. If that happens, there is zero tolerance and you go to prison with anything other than zero. I don't know if zero is actually absolute zero, but it ain't gonna be more than a cough sweet.
Driving in the Andes often involves death. You're something like 35 times more likely to die driving a car here than you are in the UK.
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Post by WDB on Dec 11, 2017 23:24:20 GMT
...treat all the controls as if they were your lover... Leave them behind at Sandbach Services? You're something like 35 times more likely to die driving a car here than you are in the UK. Well, perhaps you are. Not so sure about the rest of us. Although there was one ride through Santiago in our salesman's E63 that may have rebalanced the statistics. It's not often I really can't look. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2017 23:47:56 GMT
Was my meaning not clear? In any case, until you've been down this road in your salesman's taxi, you just haven't lived (or died).  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2017 6:54:54 GMT
OMG! I so want to drive that....but not in my E350. Perhaps Mazda MX5?
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Post by WDB on Dec 12, 2017 9:52:54 GMT
Wouldn't mind driving that; would hate to be a passenger. 🙈
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Post by Hofmeister on Dec 12, 2017 9:54:41 GMT
Lovely day for that road. Pity about the average speed cameras.... Blame our Bikey pals, who have spent years trying to kill themselves on that road. |
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Post by Hofmeister on Dec 12, 2017 9:55:14 GMT
Was my meaning not clear? In any case, until you've been down this road in your salesman's taxi, you just haven't lived (or died). makes the Stelvio pass quite tame. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2017 11:43:30 GMT
Sure. I've never driven a heavy, powerful, rear wheel drive car with summer tyres in snow before, so I expect I've got something to learn there. It doesn't really snow much around here though. I know it needs a light throttle input, and smoothness is the thing, but I still had the rear wheels scrabbling for grip. Any other tips for a soft southern softie?
I'd have taken the C1 I'm babysitting at the moment as my snow car of choice out of the three at my house currently, but I didn't fancy getting a washing machine in and out of it. Likewise the Leaf, which was quite happy in the snow on its Michelin eco tyres.
If the wheels break traction, lift off, if the steering starts to wash out, lift off, treat all the controls as if they were your lover, never brake and steer at the same time, never accelerate and steer at the same time, find the sweet spot on a balanced throttle through bends, start off in 2nd if you can lock it in gear. Leave at least double the stopping distance you normally would and start your braking early and gently. Above all, be smoooooooooth. Cheers. Noted for next time, it's all gone now. |
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Post by WDB on Dec 12, 2017 12:07:49 GMT
Bleedin' typical that this all happened a week after we sold the only set of winter-ready tyres we've ever had. In practice we didn't really miss them - I must at least be some kind of demigod on the Humph scale - but it would have been nice to feel the difference.
Can you get CrossClimate Plus (as the larger sizes are now named) for your E?
I was out in the i3 last night. (As Vic says, using a fossil car for local trips seems profligate now, and in any case, the CLS can't pre-clear itself.) The only grip problems I had there were over lumps of re-frozen slush when crossing pavements. Sainsburys car park in Marlow was an ice rink - but felt more hazardous on foot than in the car.
I feel I do have to be extra-careful with putting power down. In a manual, I can feather the clutch; an auto can do something similar through the TC (the CLS in E mode is very slow and slushy in engaging); but the i3 is pretty much direct from driver's boot to driving wheels, and it feels like it would be easy to overdo it. In practice, of course, I'm sure the traction control and ESP are smarter and faster than I am; it just feels like something I don't want to provoke.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2017 12:49:22 GMT
Yep. This morning my road looked quite icy (I have to go down and up a reasonable dip to get from my house to the main, gritted, road). So I selected ECO mode and B mode (regen braking) to set off, just in case I over prodded the go pedal as you say. No problems.
I've got 54 miles to do tomorrow all in, running children to their school carol concert, which is being held at another school in another town as it always is for some unfathomable reason (other school being a high prestige public school with impressive on site chapel with pipe organ and all that jazz, so it's just a joint sales pitch between them and our children's prep school I suppose, look at our lovely traditional gothic chapel, your children are surely worth £30k a year, you mugs). So Nogbad will be delighted to hear I'm feeling a slight flutter of range anxiety, given the low temperatures today (-3C here) have consumed 5% more power from the Leaf on the usual commute this morning. I'm sure it'll manage, but I just want to keep the Woking Class Hero in hope of a meltdown.
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 12, 2017 17:35:57 GMT
...had my second day in succession walking in the Peak District today (different companions). As yesterday, the roads were all in reasonable condition (though maybe a little more ice). What was notable was the temperature.
I started from home at -4C, by the time I got the the South end of Chatsworth, in full sunshine at 10:00, it was -8.5C!
It's a long time since I've seen daytime temperatures as low as that round here.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2017 21:07:44 GMT
That's mighty chilly. If it was windy as well, you would need to be well togged up even walking briskly. Coldest I ever experienced was about -17C in Switzerland. But there was no wind so with some decent boots and reasonable layers, walking was comfortable.
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Post by tyrednexited on Dec 13, 2017 9:56:17 GMT
That's mighty chilly. If it was windy as well, you would need to be well togged up even walking briskly. Coldest I ever experienced was about -17C in Switzerland. But there was no wind so with some decent boots and reasonable layers, walking was comfortable. ..it was certainly brass monkeys, but I've walked in far worse. Being entirely still, and with the sun shining, the cold didn't bite over-much, and it helped with the walk as the route we took can be pretty muddy, and, of course, it was well frozen. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2017 12:39:48 GMT
That's mighty chilly. If it was windy as well, you would need to be well togged up even walking briskly. Coldest I ever experienced was about -17C in Switzerland. But there was no wind so with some decent boots and reasonable layers, walking was comfortable. I've been down to -40 in Canada and Ukraine. Hard to describe. But without wind and with the right clothes, it's really not that uncomfortable. |
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