Watch out, ice about!

Slid my jimny today down a steep hill on pure ice and had to take evasive action ( skid pan training kicked in lol )
Wife pooped herself lol.
Started sliding because some old woman made me brake harshly comming out a junction, tried dabbing brakes....nothing - sheet ice. Span the wheel and handbraked - aimed into kerb and dissaster was evaded
down the street saw 3 crashes, 1 car on its roof, 2 smashed....all seperate accidents

Watch out people, doesnt matter what tyres etc you have, ice is ice!!!!

Drive safe

Bert

I did the same last night, managed to avoid everything and eventually caught it, just turned a corner and went to accelerate up the hill and round i went. Thank god for 4wd, just wish i'd stuck it in sooner....

Funny you should mention tyres... were not far from you, just the other side of the firth.

In wick on thursday i was driving down the steep sweeping exit to the pets at home mini retail park when a skoda tried to turn up the hill, he slid strait at me wheels locked up. I just whiped it sideways and then back around him nothing but grip this on sheet ice.

Winter tyres grip like velcro, the only time they wiggle is on ice in 2wd but thats due to the lack of weight on the back axel not the tyres.

well i've opted for Cooper Discoverer ATRs due to all of the road miles I do and they have given superb grip. I've done around 1000 miles while the snow was down in the past couple of months and yesterday was the first time they've given and in fairness, its ice!
Where up in Scotland are you? I am trying to get back up before the winter's out. Next month maybe.

JonathonMarshall wrote: well i've opted for Cooper Discoverer ATRs due to all of the road miles I do and they have given superb grip. I've done around 1000 miles while the snow was down in the past couple of months and yesterday was the first time they've given and in fairness, its ice!
Where up in Scotland are you? I am trying to get back up before the winter's out. Next month maybe.

I got them too mate, kinda happy medium as you say.

Found them to be pretty good, better in more severe conditions than the Duelers that were on it - good nick Duelers to, kept them anyway.

In December i did a lovely 180 in a Tesco car park! how i missed the parked cars on both sides i don't know.

It's been good round Perth / Dundee as well. Ended up sliding towards the hard shoulder / barrier at 50 on the M90 and we had 9 crashes including an artic on the same bit of the A90 week past thursday. Some of the fields have huge patches of ice in them to play on tho, Jimnys are tail happy little sods in 2 on ice eh !

hairytoes wrote:
I got them too mate, kinda happy medium as you say.

Found them to be pretty good, better in more severe conditions than the Duelers that were on it - good nick Duelers to, kept them anyway.

I'm not sure what road tyres were on when i bought iyt but in the wet they were awful and had plenty tresd still. These barely slip even if you accelerate hard in the wet!

ice here is MENTAL now!

JonathonMarshall wrote: well i've opted for Cooper Discoverer ATRs due to all of the road miles I do and they have given superb grip. I've done around 1000 miles while the snow was down in the past couple of months and yesterday was the first time they've given and in fairness, its ice!
Where up in Scotland are you? I am trying to get back up before the winter's out. Next month maybe.

North aberdeenshire - banff/macduff area right on the coast