Loads of snow on the way, unlucky BMW drivers!

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Loads of snow on the way, unlucky BMW drivers!

Post by EddyPee » Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:33 pm

BBC weather website is suggesting lots of snow due from Friday depending where you are. For me in basingrad it's suggested snow from 8am Friday to 9pm Saturday! Blizzard conditions, up to 10-15cm I saw this morning.

If it happens there is gonna be a few beemers in ditches, stuck at the bottom of hills and generally floundering about like Louis Spence on speed

FIRE UP THE QUATTRO!

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Post by Youngben » Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:39 pm

Oh yes! has an E46 M3 before the RS and it was useless! i just put it away for a few months during winter each year in the end as it was sat doing nothing! be nice to get some grip in the RS
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Post by MartayMcFly » Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:42 pm

My mate has a 320 and he's already just given up with it... wants his old Clio back, that thing was unstoppable in the snow!
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Post by Audi Pardner » Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:48 pm

When you see the news reports on telly of somewhere with heavy snow and abandoned cars, it's always Beemers in the ditch or sliding in slow motion sideways down the street :lol:

My 320 Touring's bloody useless in snow, though I fitted a set of winter tyres last year and it's a whole lot better. Still not great though :thumbsdown: one reason why it'll be sold in the spring.
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Post by EddyPee » Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:55 pm

My works full of sheep with beemers. I shall just drive on past and fling them all the bird

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Post by scaghead » Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:57 pm

I see an abandoned BMW on Monday,and we had only had a sprinkling of snow possibly broke down .but was at the bottom of a locally known steep hill which as soon as the weather turns is a nightmare to get up..I have owned a bimmer and they are awful at this time of the year..
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Post by stu » Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:34 pm

My old Z4 coupe was a real handful pre RS4.

Two bags of sand in the boot helped quite a bit but at the end of the day, when that back end went I was more a passenger than a driver!

Avis got good business from me those two winters...
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Post by amanda1 » Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:48 pm

My Beemer is sat on my drive and won't be going anywhere soon! The RS6 on the other hand is fuelled up :)
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Post by RIV » Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:55 pm

My Beemer is sat on my drive and won't be going anywhere soon! The RS6 on the other hand is fuelled up
I wouldn't bother your running bridgestones, your be spinning on the spot :biggrin3:

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Post by amanda1 » Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:01 am

Not you as well!!!!!! ;) my 6 will be fine on bridgestones ;)
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Re: Loads of snow on the way, unlucky BMW drivers!

Post by RIV » Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:04 am

I'll pull you out with my van when your stuck :thumbs:

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Post by amanda1 » Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:07 am

Silas wrote:I'll pull you out with my van when your stuck :thumbs:
I will hold you to that..........I hope you have winters on?
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Post by RIV » Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:16 am

Silas wrote:
I'll pull you out with my van when your stuck

I will hold you to that..........I hope you have winters on?
950 nm torque!

Ohh running bridgestones because they are the best
Ton of cement in the back will sort that out

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Post by Ian_C » Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:54 am

amanda1 wrote:My Beemer is sat on my drive and won't be going anywhere soon! The RS6 on the other hand is fuelled up :)
Haha I went out specially Sunday night to fill up in case I needed it all this week. I seldom use the quattro for work (once a month, maybe twice if I go straight to the MK meet from the office) but this week its been superb in the ice and snow. It really does make this kind of weather easy, and with the V8 it warms up super quick too!
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Re: Loads of snow on the way, unlucky BMW drivers!

Post by stu » Thu Jan 17, 2013 1:27 am

Ian_C wrote:[…]It really does make this kind of weather easy, and with the V8 it warms up super quick too!
My little Ibiza is fun on ice. A different kind of fun that requires gloves and down jackets. Back into the RS4 tomorrow. Can't wait!

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