Even though I spent 3 hours in the freezing cold trying to get a taxi home after the new years celebrations due to the snow, I still love it place is covered in it here anyone else get some?

Nope

Well we are pretty snowed in here alright. It's really powdery, I've been out playing with the kids but had to come in for a tea and defrost

we're not snowed in here but i won't be venturing out anytime soon


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You need to get yourself one of these Mark:


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"High-tech Ferrari Sledge with frame and brakes made of high-quality aluminium, which is very rigid and has also a certain elasticity. Seat made of impact resistant polycarbonate molded with ergonomic shape. PE coating of plastic runners for excellent gliding characteristics. Sledge comes with a PVC mash technical bag for easy-to-carry transport, handle with velcro.

Measurements packed in the carrier bag: 1090x470x160mm
Dimension of sledge: 470 x 1010 (lenght) x 280 cm(seat height)
Dimension of the carton: 1130x520x280mm - 8.00 Kg"

Bit of a far cry from the old lawn chair that I saw a kid riding down our street :laugh:

Available at the Ferrari online store for a modest800Eur!! :woohoo:
http://store.ferrari.com/en/leisure-sport/skis-sledge/ferrari-sledge.html

Quandry wrote:
You need to get yourself one of these Mark:


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"High-tech Ferrari Sledge with frame and brakes made of high-quality aluminium, which is very rigid and has also a certain elasticity. Seat made of impact resistant polycarbonate molded with ergonomic shape. PE coating of plastic runners for excellent gliding characteristics. Sledge comes with a PVC mash technical bag for easy-to-carry transport, handle with velcro.

Measurements packed in the carrier bag: 1090x470x160mm
Dimension of sledge: 470 x 1010 (lenght) x 280 cm(seat height)
Dimension of the carton: 1130x520x280mm - 8.00 Kg"

Bit of a far cry from the old lawn chair that I saw a kid riding down our street :laugh:

Available at the Ferrari online store for a modest800Eur!! :woohoo:
http://store.ferrari.com/en/leisure-sport/skis-sledge/ferrari-sledge.html


that looks like serious fun!i live on very steep hill myself and cant get out coz of the ice.four cars have crashed in the last few days down there.one of these wud be fair handy to get down the town! :laugh:

Good call, only €800? I'm surprised all the little ones aren't going around on them

According to Met Eireann we're stuck with this cold weather for the foreseeable future, at least 8 days

I think we'll all be looking for ferrari sleighs by then

is anyone driving in this weather???

Well it's hammering down snow where I am right now... So I'm driving my wife's scenic and that will be it for a while..

theres no snow where i am in east cork but the ice on the roads is lethal.a lot of roads closed off due to crashs and the roads being unusable.

Hope the salt/sand gets to you soon!

I heard the ship docked yesterday and county councils should be able to spread it again soon.

I'm actually now considering buying a 'winter beater'

paryan wrote:
is anyone driving in this weather???
Yep sixty miles a day, in the jeep though(took two hours to travel 30 miles yesterday), and its fun when applicable, was doing rings with the Previa in the yard over the christmas, the kids loved it and want to learn how (doh).

What amazes me is the brillant drivers we have in this country regardless of conditions I have only had to pull three people out of ditchs so far this cold spell.

But I have now put the mockers on myself and will pay the price this evening by launching the jeep backward thru a ditch.

I'm working in rathfarnham and the place is completely white. Even the main roads, which had been fine, are treacherous now. If it keeps snowing then i get to go home soon, so fingers crossed

i have seen some lunatics aswell Ray, saw a guy crashed into a parked car, people doing 80 on an ungritted road but the worst is people doing 30-40km in housing estates where the roads are just pure ice. There'll be deaths if this weather keeps up

DAM WEATHER!!! my 2 was off to br rebuilt is now complete and cant collect it cause roadsa to bad told him i would collect it friday now, car is gone 2months now like
DAM U JEBUS!!!!!!!!

Anything worth having is worth waiting for so what ever you do don't crash it on the way home!!

The thing that I find funny is people in work cant get in because of snow in there new golfs and other overpriced euro trash, yet i can make it in my 2. Ill prob hit a tree after posting this.The lough where i work was frozen out to about 50 meters. Heard on the news that were supposed to get the same weather for the next 2 weeks.

Last year we had savage snow and I was driving past new cars that were stuck.

I think MR with LSD is win win for snow

Hope I don't get stuck in the Scenic now

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same weather for the next 2 weeks.
Sweet

LSD FTW and not the Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds version. Would be a nice time to own a bodyshop these days, one of the girls that works for me crashed into the gate at work. Poor 530d didn't know what happened to it.

I wonder will all our insurance premiums go up to cover it all though?

Everywhere I turn there is another 'ice crash' story..

Car done a 180 in the work car park on the way home.I steered into it but didn't really help,what should i have done?

Was it on a hill? if so there was nothing you could do. If not, you should have been going slower (if that was possible)

I made a snowman - like my MR2, I could't resist "modifying" it ...


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Could be worse, look at what one Russian guy found when he went out to get his 2:


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and then after an hour of work he got to this :laugh: :

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Gotta hand it to the Russian's, when they do snow they do it well!

^good work by that guy!

Apparrently we're due a huge snow fall on the east this weekend, I usually park the car on the street but I have her safely parked on the drive now so i can stop worrying that someone is going to crash into it I'm gonna get some cheap door mats to put over the engine lid and I reckon the car will be staying there for another month or so

Sounds like a good idea! might try to get a cover or something at Halfords...

Quandry wrote:
Sounds like a good idea! might try to get a cover or something at Halfords...

I've a half cover, if you want ?

I've the full cover on mine - but had to leave it on the road as when I went to relase the handbrake, nothing. So, hopefully will thaw out ....
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Where did you get your full cover Rob?

Really glad I have the car off the road now. A car crashed into a wall down the end of my road yesterday, and then tonight a van crashed into the lamp post right beside the wall, and apparrently there was a 3rd crash there aswell...

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Where did you get your full cover Rob?

Really glad I have the car off the road now. A car crashed into a wall down the end of my road yesterday, and then tonight a van crashed into the lamp post right beside the wall, and apparrently there was a 3rd crash there aswell...

The full and half covers both came with the car when I bought it.

Wow - your road sounds a bit mad !

Cheers Rob but I wouldn't really take the risk of the trek over to you. Pretty darn snowy here at the moment...

I was driving carefully up a road yesterday (in the Scenic) with a lot of traffic banked up behind me. I was coming up to a roundabout and all was clear so kept the momentum going, all of a sudden a jackass in a 4wd came bounding on to the roundabout in front of me, I breaked but could not stop in time ABS kicked in and I was able to steer out of the way. The guy kept driving, flying off up the road like a lunatic. Goes to show that no matter how careful you drive it can sometimes be the other guy you have to watch out for. Very close shave.

Mark, sounds like you have a magnetic wall nearby