best settings in the snow?

Oh the complexities of what happens when you press one little button

 

How confusing! Hummmmm....so it starts snowing whilst you are going to pick up wife.........now where is that manual and what page is the information on.......?

 

Just drive to the conditions gentle braking and gentle acceleration, have decent tyres and relax when driving if your tense your driving will be tense, this is what i was taught when doing military driving courses and has always worked for me in the scottish winters

 

Yes...My post was....tongue in cheek. I was taught the same in 1962 in Germany.

 

Manual Gearbox.
So: for snowy stuff, eco pro or comfort and short press to degrade DSC to DTC.
And if you have the money, fit snow tyres.
That certainly woke this thread up.

 

Will be 'setting' my car today, off out in a few minutes, to fit the winter wheels. Forecast shows we are going into winter up here in the next few days. Temperatures dropping out by the weekend.

Peter

 

Right.....! That is less than 1% of the drivers in the UK then?

How many on this forum? Perhaps a poll will give an answer, but then perhaps not.

PS. My wife's little SEAT has them on all year round, and mine went on 2 weeks ago. A tad early yes.

 

Really?? I'm surprised it's that low, but I suppose 'darn sarff' doesn't get real snow - media coverage usually shows traffic chaos if there's an inch.

My, how we laugh......;)

 

No not really, it was a complete guess. Just putting forward the suggestion that not many people have the inclination that it is important to have winter tyres in the winter. If you know what I mean?

 

Ah, I see.

I was one of those, until circumstances have forced me to reconsider my motoring 'habits' this coming Winter [hospital, etc]

 

I've never used winter tyres, in fact didn't even know they existed until a colleague mentioned them 4 years ago. We rarely get much snow here in Cheshire (it falls on the Pennines), and when we do get it, it's gone in a couple of days.

And before anyone tells me I need them below 7 degs C, I feel perfectly confident down to -2 degs C. I also have the luxury of not having to use the car (semi retired).
I think that the Xdrive should cope. If not I've always got the bike.

 

Not having to use the car does help a lot although you never know if you'll already be out and get a dumping. I have to use mine to get to work so I've got them on to give me the best chance of making it there and back in one piece.

 

@Singvogel If I lived up there in the frozen north, I'd have winter tyres on the car like everyone else.

I've worked up in Aberdeen in the past and remember walking down Union St in June with a heavy winter overcoat on. Brrrrrr!

 

In my bit of Cheshire I've been sideways and bouncing off the rev limiter trying to get home on summer tyres (I live in close proximity to the Pennines)
I run winters now..