One thing I always notice when the weather is like this. The people who don't clear the snow off their vehicles are always the ones who are clueless about how to adhere their driving to the conditions
Tip for Nov.2016: if you stall going up a hill and have to reverse your way downhill, ENGAGE REVERSE! The point being taht reversing down a slippery slope using engine brake (or just reversing at idle speed) will actually help you maintain control of your car. Else, just "falling backwards in neutral" using your brakes may lead to slipping and sliding.
ManOthewoods i don't think you can any any of the cars in this video... none pushed it too much... not even the Renault... besides if the clutch is finally engaged it's the tyres that spin not the clutch plates anymore.
Xanthopteryx In Bavaria. There was 3-4 feet snow in a night. A few years ago. And in the normal winter ca. 5-8 inches a night. You see it's not much. When you have winter Tires it's easy to drive.
There is nothing hilarious about the weather in Tromsø, I am glad that we have a temperate maritime climate, and days like this are rare for much of the UK.
I'm from england and have never had a problem with snow ,when your taught to drive properly you can cope with most things ,your right this is hilarious
@@whitsthecraic Exactly I was in traffic for 2 hours because of shit drivers ... I have never seen worst drivers in rain and snow conditions, and I can say I was in so many countries and never experienced this ..!
I see a lot about winter tires yes I do believe the tires work in the winter but I never used them just really good all season tires and had zero problems I think its all about the driver and having good meat on your tires
About here I reckon. www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.2665385,-1.4270821,3a,75y,149.4h,78.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEUjhhwRe2Q2XYUuGOmUfow!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
Oh wow that's Whittington hill it's just down the road from my house but the big problem for us is that our road is even steeper and more exposed than this one.
Never a copper about when you need one !!! It really gets my back up to see all the morons who can't be bothered to clean ALL the snow off their bonnets , roofs & back windows.... dangerous to all road users when it slides down over the front window or harder snow blowing over the car when going faster and hitting cars that are behind ( not in this video I might add ).... wish people would wise up to getting a set of Winter Tyres though , safer and cheaper for everyone
+Russell Oriely - The UK doesn't have ''cold'' because of the Gulf Stream so slush turns to ice. No one its winter tyres so they panic at a mere dusting of snow. Lacking appropriate tyres is negligence.
+romansUK When I learned to drive 30 years ago no one used snow tires. They were expensive and rode horrible on dry pavement. We never had issues because we were smart enough to avoid hills when the snow was flying. This is just stupid people that don't belong on the road, types of tires is irrelivent.
all true....when its -18 celcius or lower and the snow sound like styrofoam, the traction is pretty good. slush make cars "float", and turn lane change into nightmare on highway. this is when a good awd shine.
+William Kelley don't compare a 3200lbs 1980 monte carlo to a 1150lbs 2016 hyundai accent and say that its all about the driving skills and winter tyres are not needed. my father is 75 and he well know the benefit of winter tyres, even though he drive scince late '50.
i think that every winters your camera is ready to film that funny situations i think that the % must be important in front of your home thanks for sharing Ian have a good week P
Just goes to show, many people do not react correctly. I've just spent the better part of a week driving around on sheet ice with buggered up old all-season tyres in an old, pre-ABS/EBS/ESC rear wheel drive car and I didn't get stuck even once, even if I did a fair bit of cornering with the tail out. Smooth and minimal throttle inputs are the key to adhesion on slush/ice, even with hardened old tyres on.
The problem is in the uk we get wet snow which is more like slush, which makes it very slippy, also it dosent snow as often as it used to so any person who passed his driving test in the last 15 years has little or no experience driving in snow, if we ever get a real winter a lot of drivers will not have a clue.
It is just that people in UK in general do not bother to put winter tires. I get it that it rarely snows there, but winter tires have much better grip in sub 10c temperatures. If you have a winter set of tires they will be good for at least 4 years and they make huge difference in handling and grip. No mateer RWD, FWD or AWD..
***** All drivetrains are ok up to a point. FWD tend to weigh less and are cheapest to make due to less parts, but not do good in snow or off the line. RWD tend to be the funnest to drive IF your in a area to take advantage if it and can be the best off the line, but is the worst in snow. AWD provides the most grip off the line and is the best pick for bad weather driving, but is the heaviest.
***** Yeah RWD looks alot better sliding down the hill backwards doesn't it? How the hell can you say its better than AWD? Even the FWD clio made it further up the hill than that tail wagger merc! And impreza's slow in the wet? The complete opposite is true on that, they are one of the best in the wet, just grip n go!
Might have something to do with the fact that in the U.S., there is almost no width restriction on large vehicles(anything that requires a heavy equipment/cdl license) and also that city vehicles(which most plows here are) have a higher priority over traffic during storms and can carry much larger blades than say, a private plow.
frozenfirestix Or rather they have normal sized streets, just the U.S. has a larger shoulder. Which means we are capable of putting much larger vehicles side by side.
I've only been to U.K. a couple times, highways/motorways are normal sized, and most 'A' roads, but I still can't believe the number of roads that have pullovers and parking areas, just so cars can get by each other. Just something to get used to I suppose. cheers
We should follow the winter rules in Japan. From mid November until the end of April, you are required by law to use Winter Tyres. Failure to do so, could result in your vehicle being crushed....oops!
Bus routes ( safe travel for buses) would work wonders during bad weather. No bad uphill roads would work. Yes riders may have to walk a bit to get to the bus stop but it would help buses immensely.
all i see in comments is winter tyres, winter tyres.... you do not need winter tyres if you can drive in snow, like not trying to boot it in first gear up a hill. winter tyres do not make you a better driver. plus snow and sub zero temperatures are such a rare occurrence in most of the uk. just the northern half of scotland that gets it really bad most of the time. proper throttle control and gear selection plus keeping your whole car clear of snow is all thats needed in the uk for the most part.
In the case of summer tyres on snow,you can deflate them (we run 20psi,or less,on my wife's pug 206) and by using some momentum you can move pretty easily.Of course there is no comparison to winter tyres but that trick can get out of "slippery" situations.
Oliver Lewin to be fair its lack of practice as well ...last decent snow round here was 2011/12 .... You now have drivers on the UK's roads who have never experienced driving in snow!
All that is because in UK almost no one knows what winter tyre is :D And even the street looks perfectly clean, despite icy. With a set of snow tyres they would never feel any difference rom driving on a hot and dry street.
People just seem to think winter tyres are for snowy conditions but they work better than summer tyres in all conditions provided the temerature is below 7 degrees. They totally transform a vehicle during the colder months. I think insurance companies should offer financial incentives for fitting them.
@@simontay4851 Somehow I still don't think he will come up to the unladen weight of that bus even. As for grit/salt on that lorry it looked empty to me, - even if he had some in the back I don't think he had that much, - by virtue of the way he had to 'charge up' that hill when he came back.
Just put a set of Goodyear ultra grip 8s on our volvo tdi, if I cant get the hills inLincs wolds then snow chains in boot, didnt stop us in 2010...also have a 4x4 for worst case scenario...
It hardly ever snows in the UK (where I live we only get snow once in every 10 years or so) so no one uses winter tyres. When it does snow, we don't have to go to school or work. ;)
SUMMER tires on winter roads is always stupid. If the cars in this video had proper winter tires there would not be anything to film at all, just "Nice driving on white roads". Driving on snow is no problem with proper winter tires.
Russians please note, no panic, no confusion, no fighting or arguing. Just straight forward cooperation. They all probably had a cup of tea afterwards.
Never a dull minute is there along your road when the weather is like this..? lol - Just watching some of these clowns in action, and you can see why the roads in the Uk turn to chaos at the drop of snow. Im tut tutting, but Im not surprised. Great viewing mind. :-)
That house of yours must be worth a fortune Ian. Winter Olympics right outside the front door...lol Did you get any coffee bean handshakes whilst filming all those broken ego's, and how many Tunnock's Tea Cakes did you polish off after this capture. ;-) Excellent stuff, 5***** Andy.
More people do have winter tyres now but it's still a marginal call. Roads are only like this a few days of the year in most of England, so the cost and wear rate has to be taken into account. A few companies are now doing tyres that are supposedly suitable for all conditions.
Snow is much less common in the UK than mainland Europe and the USA (the parts of the USA that get snow, that is), so people don’t bother as they’d only be useful for a couple of days of the year.
It’s snows like once every 8 years so why buy snow tyres also understand that people in the U.K. buy cars on finance or lease or just change cars regularly so they have a warranty in which case buying trees is pointless
It’s just the fact that a lot of us in the UK aren’t prepared. People don’t bother to spend money on snow tyres. Personally I just run my cars on winter tyres all year around. They don’t wear down much quicker than normal tyres.
All this is completely avoidable. If they all had winter tyres on their vehicles their wouldn't be this chaos. When people are learning to drive, they should do a few lessons at a skid pan. So they know to drive when it's slippery.
Mysterious Squirrel Good job in turning reality the other way around. You're one of the weak persons who stop working for a little bit of frost. Stay home and do nothing.
Richard van Pukkem I'm not weak you idiot! I just haven't got myself into so much debt that I dare not take a day off of work. Why should I join in with the millions of morons who have no choice but to go to work. Presumably morons like yourself.
Mysterious Squirrel By doing nothing you earn nothing. While others go on progressing. So relatively you're lagging further and further behind of where you could have been by getting your arse off the couch.
dschonsie they dont bother in England because they get snow once every 5 years or so, winter temps down there usually sit above 5C. If you go anywhere in the UK where we actually get snow every year 4x4s with winter tyres are very common, anywhere north of Glasgow/Edinburgh just doesnt have this problem.
Snotra umm the7 are useless in the UK unless it snows which where I live happens like once every 8 years or so. Where the hell do they get stored during that time and you know they are expensive right. All weather tyres which cars come with are perfectly adequate in cold weather minus the snow
Usually when i see some1 with RWD car, nomatter what it is, trying to climb a hill in the snow i just go: "Man just let it go... Pull aside, lock it and walk home. You're just NOT gonna make it." Last winter in similar conditions for the 1st time ever i saw a snow plow not being able to climb the hill. Was just insane jumping all over the place, spinning the tires and sliding back.
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usually it takes one driver who dosen't know how to drive in snow, to mess up everyone elses momentum.
One thing I always notice when the weather is like this. The people who don't clear the snow off their vehicles are always the ones who are clueless about how to adhere their driving to the conditions
Yeah, it's like all that snow is weighing down their vehicles and, like, cleaning off the snow would make them wizz up
Tip for Nov.2016: if you stall going up a hill and have to reverse your way downhill, ENGAGE REVERSE!
The point being taht reversing down a slippery slope using engine brake (or just reversing at idle speed)
will actually help you maintain control of your car.
Else, just "falling backwards in neutral" using your brakes may lead to slipping and sliding.
It's 2022 dude.
@@thetruthh.8836 you know they posted that 6 years ago right?
Nice necro posting BRAH
big fan from Canada, love to watch these, keep them coming year after year mate, nice to see home from a far, cheers
I can smell that clutch from here
ManOthewoods cancer yummy
ManOthewoods i don't think you can any any of the cars in this video... none pushed it too much... not even the Renault... besides if the clutch is finally engaged it's the tyres that spin not the clutch plates anymore.
Anymore?
Summer tires in winter. A joy for everyone.
its tyres not tires
buy a dictionary smartass.
Got one says TYRES
So you're from GB, must be a gap in education =)
Just get lost grammar nazi :)
Quite fun to see the chaos that comes from a few cm of snow.
It was about 5/6 inches actually
Xanthopteryx That's not much.
Xanthopteryx In Bavaria. There was 3-4 feet snow in a night. A few years ago. And in the normal winter ca. 5-8 inches a night. You see it's not much. When you have winter Tires it's easy to drive.
haha 5.49 is brilliant... watch as the proper cars take over!
Really these people are gonna drive with THAT much snow still on their cars? Jesus fucking christ someone revoke their licenses PLEASE.
Flammen. shut up... you haven't got a clue about it.
Choice777 what that its dangerous to travel with snow on your car??? whats to know about it??
would be nice if the pratt in the clio had cleared the snow from his lights for a start
Thought so too
john parkinson yeah but I don't think that would improve his ability to drive!
that man in clio did not know how to drive. if you give gas, dont stop. looks he did not know what he is doing.
john parkinson why? it's daylight and the whole car is white.. not like you can't see it a mile away.
Well that looks like fun =D
That machine is very satisfying when it goes fast
Im from Norway and i live in Tromsø, this is hilarious
We get this in 30 min LOL
There is nothing hilarious about the weather in Tromsø, I am glad that we have a temperate maritime climate, and days like this are rare for much of the UK.
I'm from england and have never had a problem with snow ,when your taught to drive properly you can cope with most things ,your right this is hilarious
@@glynnwright1699 : As the climate keeps changing it won't be much longer. Out.
The problem in this country is not snow, it's shit driving. As soon as it snows, people suddenly don't know how to drive.
@@whitsthecraic Exactly
I was in traffic for 2 hours because of shit drivers ...
I have never seen worst drivers in rain and snow conditions, and I can say I was in so many countries and never experienced this ..!
You definitely live on the best street in winter!!
I live in Scotland, after buying a Rear Wheel Drive, Snow tyres it was, I've not gotten stuck yet!
I see a lot about winter tires yes I do believe the tires work in the winter but I never used them just really good all season tires and had zero problems I think its all about the driver and having good meat on your tires
Where was this filmed? Somewhere in Chesterfield, I'd say looking at the taxi plates and the buses going to Sheffield via Whittington Moor.
About here I reckon. www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.2665385,-1.4270821,3a,75y,149.4h,78.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEUjhhwRe2Q2XYUuGOmUfow!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
Oh wow that's Whittington hill it's just down the road from my house but the big problem for us is that our road is even steeper and more exposed than this one.
If you in a front wheel drive trying to get up a hill in snow then reverse up it works so much better.
no it doesnt, what are you taking about. front wheel drive have better traction getting up hills than real wheel drive. you are talking shit pal
Front wheel drive is better indeed.
But hearing the high revers 😱🤦♂️
@@paulcowen8425 results don't lie, I reversed up my road in snow, when it wouldn't go up forward, maybe it's you talking shit pal?
results dont lie? results tell you front wheel drive is better in snow
@@paulcowen8425 never said front drive is worse than rear drive, I said reversing up a hill in front drive is better, gives more traction.
I remember when everyone in the UK struggled to drive hahah such fun! *sarcasm*
Never a copper about when you need one !!! It really gets my back up to see all the morons who can't be bothered to clean ALL the snow off their bonnets , roofs & back windows.... dangerous to all road users when it slides down over the front window or harder snow blowing over the car when going faster and hitting cars that are behind ( not in this video I might add ).... wish people would wise up to getting a set of Winter Tyres though , safer and cheaper for everyone
Wtf is a bonnet?
@@roscoeelcocko1863 its the thing you lift up to get to the engine in uk its called a bonnet
then what are windscreen wipers for rolls eyes
Excellent video x
It's OK, but prefer trains
Wow a Grit truck... I’ve only ever seen one when it’s not needed.. think they hibernate when snowing.
Them snow plow lads are good at what they do
meanwhile in canada.....
actually that warm slushy crap is the worst to drive in. the colder it is the better your traction in the snow.
+Russell Oriely - The UK doesn't have ''cold'' because of the Gulf Stream so slush turns to ice. No one its winter tyres so they panic at a mere dusting of snow. Lacking appropriate tyres is negligence.
+romansUK When I learned to drive 30 years ago no one used snow tires. They were expensive and rode horrible on dry pavement. We never had issues because we were smart enough to avoid hills when the snow was flying. This is just stupid people that don't belong on the road, types of tires is irrelivent.
all true....when its -18 celcius or lower and the snow sound like styrofoam, the traction is pretty good. slush make cars "float", and turn lane change into nightmare on highway. this is when a good awd shine.
+William Kelley don't compare a 3200lbs 1980 monte carlo to a 1150lbs 2016 hyundai accent and say that its all about the driving skills and winter tyres are not needed. my father is 75 and he well know the benefit of winter tyres, even though he drive scince late '50.
thatfrenchcanadian
^*tires*
i think that every winters your camera is ready to film that funny situations
i think that the % must be important in front of your home
thanks for sharing Ian
have a good week
P
I hear winter tires sure helps a lot
"all day, every day", guess not today xD!
Ooh god looking through random videos on youtube and i watch this one and guess what my home town haha. whittington hill at it's finest haha.
I wish we had that much snow in Germany!
And where were the gritting crew when you needed them? In their beds tucked up after a friday night drinking session.
With tyres for winter use fitted, that amount of snow will not cause any problems.
Bollocks, on that hill without 4-wheel drive and a gritted surface.
People that don't carry a shovel and bags of salt in the back of their car are stupid and shouldn't be driving in snow.
If that was my road i'd be out there with the shovel!
You're going to clear the whole road with a shuffle when the snow plough was there.. ok you do you
Just goes to show, many people do not react correctly. I've just spent the better part of a week driving around on sheet ice with buggered up old all-season tyres in an old, pre-ABS/EBS/ESC rear wheel drive car and I didn't get stuck even once, even if I did a fair bit of cornering with the tail out. Smooth and minimal throttle inputs are the key to adhesion on slush/ice, even with hardened old tyres on.
Is this on Whittington Hill, Chesterfield....just below the Black Bull ?
Sure is
What's about snow chains and winter tires??
like every year - winter is coming so surprizing in November / Dezember
winter tyres that would end most of this
But our snow only last a few days, so it's not really worth it in the UK unless you live in the north or Scotland
I was cheering the little Clio to make it. The expensive Merc was hopeless.
It was hopeless because it is RWD.
The problem is in the uk we get wet snow which is more like slush, which makes it very slippy, also it dosent snow as often as it used to so any person who passed his driving test in the last 15 years has little or no experience driving in snow, if we ever get a real winter a lot of drivers will not have a clue.
It is just that people in UK in general do not bother to put winter tires. I get it that it rarely snows there, but winter tires have much better grip in sub 10c temperatures. If you have a winter set of tires they will be good for at least 4 years and they make huge difference in handling and grip. No mateer RWD, FWD or AWD..
Thats why I drive a Subaru! AWD is great!
***** While rear wheel drive CAN be more fun, its not better nor is it the slowest in the rain.
***** All drivetrains are ok up to a point. FWD tend to weigh less and are cheapest to make due to less parts, but not do good in snow or off the line. RWD tend to be the funnest to drive IF your in a area to take advantage if it and can be the best off the line, but is the worst in snow. AWD provides the most grip off the line and is the best pick for bad weather driving, but is the heaviest.
***** Yeah RWD looks alot better sliding down the hill backwards doesn't it? How the hell can you say its better than AWD? Even the FWD clio made it further up the hill than that tail wagger merc!
And impreza's slow in the wet? The complete opposite is true on that, they are one of the best in the wet, just grip n go!
6:05: Park it there and leave it until spring. LOL
I do have to say that I think American snowplows are better equipped with much larger plows
I think you are a dreamer ;-)
Might have something to do with the fact that in the U.S., there is almost no width restriction on large vehicles(anything that requires a heavy equipment/cdl license) and also that city vehicles(which most plows here are) have a higher priority over traffic during storms and can carry much larger blades than say, a private plow.
Gen15 Americans do have much larger plows, mainly because they have normal sized streets..
Not hating , just saying
frozenfirestix
Or rather they have normal sized streets, just the U.S. has a larger shoulder. Which means we are capable of putting much larger vehicles side by side.
I've only been to U.K. a couple times, highways/motorways are normal sized, and most 'A' roads, but I still can't believe the number of roads that have pullovers and parking areas, just so cars can get by each other. Just something to get used to I suppose. cheers
Could you hear the guy in the Daleys' van yelling," MOVE IT, MOVE IT, MOVE IT...aw crap"?
ok i'm gonna get my winter tyres on asap.
Do not stop on a incline. Keep going Slow and steady.
What if traffic lights 🚥 are red, colourblind is not an excuse
When it gets this bad, i don't even bother to venture out on the roads. Too risky
We should follow the winter rules in Japan. From mid November until the end of April, you are required by law to use Winter Tyres.
Failure to do so, could result in your vehicle being crushed....oops!
Put your taxes up to pay for everyone's tyres, how bout that then
Bus routes ( safe travel for buses) would work wonders during bad weather. No bad uphill roads would work. Yes riders may have to walk a bit to get to the bus stop but it would help buses immensely.
No maniac stands at a bus stop during snow - unless they degenerates
all i see in comments is winter tyres, winter tyres.... you do not need winter tyres if you can drive in snow, like not trying to boot it in first gear up a hill. winter tyres do not make you a better driver. plus snow and sub zero temperatures are such a rare occurrence in most of the uk. just the northern half of scotland that gets it really bad most of the time. proper throttle control and gear selection plus keeping your whole car clear of snow is all thats needed in the uk for the most part.
Aye min! Yer nae wrang there at aa! .. Fitt like Glaesga fae Aeberdeen.
this happened to a bus going up a hill, in the early hours of the morning, not far from where I live
Snow+Mercedes Benz = stay at home
Why ?
I drive BMW in worse conditions and never had single problem
Don't they have Winter Wheel's in UK...???
Ahh, the 4x4s going by..
In the case of summer tyres on snow,you can deflate them (we run 20psi,or less,on my wife's pug 206) and by using some momentum you can move pretty easily.Of course there is no comparison to winter tyres but that trick can get out of "slippery" situations.
μπεκακος ευθυμιος.... Summer tyres... Summer gripping summer no
I live on a steep hill in Wales & we have grit bins. We all clear the snow away from the road outside our houses, throw grit down, problem solved.
Haha kaos when it cames 2 centimeters snow!
Anders Granlöf Yeah 😂 This is 🇬🇧😂
A little salt or grit would work wonders.
No Name Very highly unlikely that it’s -8 or below in this video.
🤔...... Well, part of the problem is that everybody is driving on the wrong side of the road.
Then watch 🙃 upside down may help
Is snow tires and studded tires illegal in the UK? This looks like normal winter to me (exept everyone seems to get stuck)...
Nope. Its just that 98% of people are fucking USELESS at driving here. Gets me so fucking angry.
Oliver Lewin to be fair its lack of practice as well ...last decent snow round here was 2011/12 ....
You now have drivers on the UK's roads who have never experienced driving in snow!
I thought I was going to see more prepared drivers
If the roads are this bad I wouldn’t even attempt hill driving. Take a different rout
Ryan Scherbluk when you live in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and much of the rest of the north of England there are no alternatives to hills!
Spencer Wilton anywhere in the uk, not just those places
Even with winter tyres and front-wheel drive, a hill like that one is a bugger if it hasn't been gritted.
So fit snow socks & away we go, straight up
oh no 3cm of snow, everything comes to a stop
Why does the plow truck have anti-grenade netting on top?
So it can plow in camouflage
All that is because in UK almost no one knows what winter tyre is :D
And even the street looks perfectly clean, despite icy. With a set of snow tyres they would never feel any difference rom driving on a hot and dry street.
You know ,,Winter tires for Winter and summer tires for summer...Easy.
And this is exactly the reason why I live in South Florida.
People just seem to think winter tyres are for snowy conditions but they work better than summer tyres in all conditions provided the temerature is below 7 degrees. They totally transform a vehicle during the colder months. I think insurance companies should offer financial incentives for fitting them.
It doesn't snow a lot in the uk...so the tyres are non winter tyres!
531 i feel you
I notice the 'Snow Plough' didn't have any problems going up or down and he was probably lighter than the bus overall.
Hes not lighter than the bus. He'll have several tons of grit/salt in the back.
@@simontay4851 Somehow I still don't think he will come up to the unladen weight of that bus even. As for grit/salt on that lorry it looked empty to me, - even if he had some in the back I don't think he had that much, - by virtue of the way he had to 'charge up' that hill when he came back.
Haha come to switzerland and practice
WHAT YEAR WAS THIS
My neighbour told me you rarely turn on your tv on snowy days since you moved to that apartment next to the hill.
@3.42.........my c class is shit in the snow too LOL
Seems like y'all aren't well-prepared once winter kicks in.
so... no winter tires.... :D
what do you mean 'winter tires'....this is our SUMMER !
Just put a set of Goodyear ultra grip 8s on our volvo tdi, if I cant get the hills inLincs
wolds then snow chains in boot, didnt stop us in 2010...also have a 4x4 for worst case scenario...
Lincs lad here, was delivering in the wolds in 2010 in a merc sprinter, had winter tyres on but they are the worst vehicle ever in the snow
supersesqui no it ain’t it’s rain in summer
It hardly ever snows in the UK (where I live we only get snow once in every 10 years or so) so no one uses winter tyres.
When it does snow, we don't have to go to school or work. ;)
SUMMER tires on winter roads is always stupid. If the cars in this video had proper winter tires there would not be anything to film at all, just "Nice driving on white roads". Driving on snow is no problem with proper winter tires.
Russians please note, no panic, no confusion, no fighting or arguing. Just straight forward cooperation. They all probably had a cup of tea afterwards.
Never a dull minute is there along your road when the weather is like this..? lol - Just watching some of these clowns in action, and you can see why the roads in the Uk turn to chaos at the drop of snow. Im tut tutting, but Im not surprised. Great viewing mind. :-)
6:10 mark, "yur doing it rong"
If Udizzy lived in England, this could be his street.
If u lived on this street ud be dizzy 😵 as England
That house of yours must be worth a fortune Ian. Winter Olympics right outside the front door...lol
Did you get any coffee bean handshakes whilst filming all those broken ego's, and how many Tunnock's Tea Cakes did you polish off after this capture. ;-)
Excellent stuff,
5*****
Andy.
Hahaha, the highway maintenance vehicles are stuck. That's pretty ironic.
Are winter tires not common in the UK?
More people do have winter tyres now but it's still a marginal call. Roads are only like this a few days of the year in most of England, so the cost and wear rate has to be taken into account. A few companies are now doing tyres that are supposedly suitable for all conditions.
Snow is much less common in the UK than mainland Europe and the USA (the parts of the USA that get snow, that is), so people don’t bother as they’d only be useful for a couple of days of the year.
It’s snows like once every 8 years so why buy snow tyres also understand that people in the U.K. buy cars on finance or lease or just change cars regularly so they have a warranty in which case buying trees is pointless
Ahh taxi drivers,they are supposed to be professional 😂
Professional swindlers, that's it
hands up! Who wanted to see the gritter slide into the parked bus?
It’s just the fact that a lot of us in the UK aren’t prepared. People don’t bother to spend money on snow tyres. Personally I just run my cars on winter tyres all year around. They don’t wear down much quicker than normal tyres.
And u still get stuck in the snow
Yea plows!!!
Yea shovels???
All this is completely avoidable. If they all had winter tyres on their vehicles their wouldn't be this chaos. When people are learning to drive, they should do a few lessons at a skid pan. So they know to drive when it's slippery.
Britain grinds to a halt when there's a mild frost.
Which, for most of the country is a couple of days every few years.
Glynn Wright When it snows, I just stay at home rather than join all the morons too scared to call their bosses.
Mysterious Squirrel Good job in turning reality the other way around. You're one of the weak persons who stop working for a little bit of frost. Stay home and do nothing.
Richard van Pukkem I'm not weak you idiot! I just haven't got myself into so much debt that I dare not take a day off of work. Why should I join in with the millions of morons who have no choice but to go to work. Presumably morons like yourself.
Mysterious Squirrel By doing nothing you earn nothing. While others go on progressing. So relatively you're lagging further and further behind of where you could have been by getting your arse off the couch.
Where in Yorkshire, did this take place?
+Scottish NS Rail Fan This is Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Scottish NS Rail Fan Snow plow comes through doesn't even drop anything to thaw the snow. I thought euros were suppose to be intelligent. lol
let me guess, hardly anyone got winter tyres........
not even the bus? that's just ridiculous.
dschonsie they dont bother in England because they get snow once every 5 years or so, winter temps down there usually sit above 5C.
If you go anywhere in the UK where we actually get snow every year 4x4s with winter tyres are very common, anywhere north of Glasgow/Edinburgh just doesnt have this problem.
dschonsie
Doesnt matter if it doesnt snow, winter tires bether in rain than summer tires below 15 celcius, just laziness
Snotra umm the7 are useless in the UK unless it snows which where I live happens like once every 8 years or so. Where the hell do they get stored during that time and you know they are expensive right. All weather tyres which cars come with are perfectly adequate in cold weather minus the snow
Its embarrassing how we cant cope with snow in the uk.
We run winter tyres on our work vans due to working in countryside.
mud and snow tires I would recommend in that weather conditions :-/
its tyres not tires
David Jones Tyres if you are Brittish, Tires if you are American. Just like Plough, Plow and Sleigh, Sled.
That weather is normal in Finland.
UK frst snow :D
Usually when i see some1 with RWD car, nomatter what it is, trying to climb a hill in the snow i just go: "Man just let it go... Pull aside, lock it and walk home. You're just NOT gonna make it." Last winter in similar conditions for the 1st time ever i saw a snow plow not being able to climb the hill. Was just insane jumping all over the place, spinning the tires and sliding back.
QuantumS1ngularity A couple bags of cement in the trunk (boot for you islanders) helps.