Says the one who had his winter jacket and hat on 4 weeks ago 🙂
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can your vans cope with snow ?
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Barry98
You locked me under the bloody floor for 4 days
that only going to help if they are driving rwd vans 🙂
we know some one who had his full with scrap to the roof , and he now work for BG
Weight is king in the snow.
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Barry98
Coughandycough
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Billy Bob Bob
stan should be ok then ,cough
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Ermintrude
Fwd tranny full of loot, trying to clump 5% in snow. Loads o fun
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lame plumber
best thing in snow is skinny old LR tyres that dig in and hit the hard stuff. Trouble is they and vans all come with daft low profiles etc now for some stupid reason. tickles me when someone sticks low profiles on a van full of kit, tyre walls cant cope and a bad tempered copper can have you up for not having suitable tyres for a conmmercial vehicle, plus the fact they are crap on snow n ice
Because there all owned by perverted types who love getting oily!
" not to get stuck " that is what most of the landy crew does , then spend the rest of the day trying to get out ! Te longer it takes and the more painful it's THE BETTER story it wil turn to be 🙂 lol
Like I said Stan, perverted.
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Billy Bob Bob
thats funny,you have just been banned and demoted to teaboy in one go
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lame plumber
How many sugars?
Nah, full set of snow tyres mounted and ready to go. If they don't work, hey ho day off.
mine can't cope with breaking while travelling downhill
use winter tyres and roll down on 1st gear and just little force on brakes try avoid hitting brakes hard and having to activate abs
when driving on snow and you have to stop , when you want to take of DO NOT hit accelerator ...... put in to first gear and slowly release clutch
when slowing down on snow dont hit brakes hard , go one gear lower and as you release clutch gently press breaks (this is how I have been train to drive and on my van that is 5 years old had just one set of new pads and van has done 63k now )
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Billy Bob Bob
or engage difflock as well if you have it
not sure how that works so , I can not comment . But audi has done the best ever 4x4 Quattro and I have watched a lot of videos with audi Quattro on snow going up hill or going down hill . Its all to do with the correct amount of torque sent to front or back of car and how the weight is balanced ,
However audi is part of VW group but VW vans 4x4 dont have this Quattro system , but some cheap version of it
i know two members who has a audi Quattro and I am waiting of there feedback
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Rickster123
Oh god it's that time of year again. If there's more than 3 snow flakes I'm staying at home. Health and safety!
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Billy Bob Bob
locks the axles stops wheels slipping
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Billy Bob Bob
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Centralheatking
Lots of older landowners in Wiltshire used to run a subaru 'justy' a 4x4 hatchback - these little
monster would go anywhere and when they did not they were light enough to be easily
pulled out of the ditch with a light tractor or l/rover centralheatking
monster would go anywhere and when they did not they were light enough to be easily
pulled out of the ditch with a light tractor or l/rover centralheatking
First snow after I passed my test I went down to the industrial estate one weekend and spent an hour in a big car park finding out what to do and what not to do.
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lame plumber
not true really, as all a diff lock does is lock the drives together, the wheels can still slip and skid quite happily, and your turning circle increases as well. Best option now is to push in that little button for snow/ice down hill, then a clever lickle computer does it all for you. You just drive on the throttle and leave those braokes alone 🙂, or dont the old defenders have that lickle button?
What most numpties fail to realise is that 4x4 will get you going ok, its the stopping thats the problem!
My Combo cant even cope in the wet, I'm dreading the single snowflake that comes down and makes it undriveable.
On the subject of vans....when I start mine in a morning (diesel) I seem to get and abnormal amount of blue smoke out the back...I know blue smoke means its burning oil? This is onlt when I start it, it goes to normal soon after. 😛rrr:
Its only done 54K and gets oil + filter changed every year.
On the subject of vans....when I start mine in a morning (diesel) I seem to get and abnormal amount of blue smoke out the back...I know blue smoke means its burning oil? This is onlt when I start it, it goes to normal soon after. 😛rrr:
Its only done 54K and gets oil + filter changed every year.
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