Did someone mention winter?

[Rolfe]

 

[Kenp1]

Are those all season tyres, look like it from the tyre tracks?

 

[Rolfe]

Yes. I had them put on a week ago. None too soon, obviously. They coped very well.

The snow had only started when I left about 7.25 for the Gaelic psalm-singing session in the church in the next village about three miles away (which is at about 1,000 feet). I turned on the pre-heat as we were packing up about ten, and the wipers cleared the windscreen, but I had to get out and clear the front lights by hand when I realised I couldn't see where I was going. I didn't remember to turn on snow mode immediately, but even so I didn't get any wheel slip. The road had been ploughed and gritted, but as the snow was still falling it was slightly hairy nonetheless. But the tyres were great. I should probably pay the garge bill.

 

[MG Clive]

No snow in Cumbria yet, but we might see some today

 

[Rolfe]

I was just thinking how incongruous it is to see a car that has just been driven for three miles with an inch of snow lying unbroken on its bonnet!