landroversforever Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 3 hours ago, sgnas said: My 2wd Panda was unbelievably good in the snow. The 4wd versions have always been the car equivalent of a mountain goat. Went I went up Vesuvius in Italy a few years back, there was a small collection of 2wd pandas at the top Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snagger Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 16 hours ago, sgnas said: My 2wd Panda was unbelievably good in the snow. The 4wd versions have always been the car equivalent of a mountain goat. I saw plenty on the Alps trip with Atlas Overland, as Mo says. Not just park rangers - several were driven by nuns with a fag hanging out the corner of their mouth too! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoSS Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 Having lived 18 years in the alps, this is something i learned. Fit a decent set of winter tyres, and you almost never need chains. Of course now, in France its compulsory to have winter tyres fitted from Nov-March if you live in one of the departments with any kind of mountains. I will probably continue this back in the UK, get/keep a 2nd set of winter wheels for my main drive. Even if there not actually snow down, the grip on a cold/icy road is significantly better. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaklander Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 I wholeheartedly agree. They make a tremendous difference and the five cars across my close family members all get swapped over to steel rims with winter tyres from Nov - April. It is additional cost of course, even using secondhand rims. We struggle to find room to store them though and it's often me who swaps them over and I also seem therefore to get the job of cleaning them before storage too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snagger Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 Yep. Decent tyres are the most significant traction aid of all. ETC, locking diffs, engine and transmission torque modification, stability control… all do nothing if the tyres have poor tread or compound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Poore Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 On 1/19/2022 at 11:41 AM, smallfry said: Looks to me like that Fiat has got chains on the front ? A friend sent this video through as well and that was my immediate thought given the way that the snow was being ripped up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mo Murphy Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 What was it were supposed to remember ? I've forgotten 😬 Mo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnoK Posted February 27, 2022 Share Posted February 27, 2022 On 1/19/2022 at 11:34 PM, FridgeFreezer said: Glad you took it in the spirit it was intended... as a general rule you can often spot the "base" part of the actual link, often there's a question mark that denotes the start of all the extra nonsense. The most pernicious is ?fbclid= followed by a vast load of gibberish which is facebook's all-seeing eye following everything and everyone who clicks that link. The other offender often seen round here is eBay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281169865875?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3D23e9287f1d164907a65d2a8b90832eb4%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D224790959790%26itm%3D281169865875%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A4beb8678-796f-11ec-86f5-de10e2fc70cc|parentrq%3A7441573317e0a64d83d833aefffcacb6|iid%3A1 Becomes simply: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281169865875 Happy internetting! Thank you for the education!! Most appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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