Snow Button - Whey Hey!

[Grangey]

Got to use the snow button for the first time Monday night - excellent!! Stopped the car fishtailing when I hit it, but it caused me to stall in second near the top of a pretty steep hill. Thought 'aye aye, back to the bottom for me to try again', but I put it in first and away we went! Got me the rest of the way home without as much as spin of a wheel. Wizard little gadget.......... :hocus-pokus:

[GRiM]

Hey Paul.

Ain't seen ewe posting for a while...

Stuck in the snow eh?

Not anylonger I see

[Grangey]

No, not been around for a while. I have some software on the PC that I use for work and, no matter what you do, it ALWAYS resets IE homepage to its own choice. Annoying. Always then seem to get caught up in work.........

[dribble]

Paul,

want a registry patch for that annoying home page?

Stick it in your startup group just in case it loads up on log on

(What OS you using?)

-Lee

[ricky_is200]

Got to use the snow button for the first time Monday night - excellent!! Stopped the car fishtailing when I hit it, but it caused me to stall in second near the top of a pretty steep hill. Thought 'aye aye, back to the bottom for me to try again', but I put it in first and away we went! Got me the rest of the way home without as much as spin of a wheel. Wizard little gadget.......... :hocus-pokus:

I believe all the snow button does it make the throttle less responsive (to stop wheel spin from high revs) it doesn't do anything else to improve traction or stability.

[Grangey]

Got to use the snow button for the first time Monday night - excellent!! Stopped the car fishtailing when I hit it, but it caused me to stall in second near the top of a pretty steep hill. Thought 'aye aye, back to the bottom for me to try again', but I put it in first and away we went! Got me the rest of the way home without as much as spin of a wheel. Wizard little gadget..........  :hocus-pokus:

I believe all the snow button does it make the throttle less responsive (to stop wheel spin from high revs) it doesn't do anything else to improve traction or stability.

It got me up the hill and other inclines without any spin at all. You could push the Go pedal as much as you wanted but it was still as stable as h@ll. I don't know what it does, but it works!!

Lee, that patch would be great. Tried regisrty hacks already, but I'll try anything! Win2k is my OS.

Thanks.

[lexicon]

I believe all the snow button does it make the throttle less responsive (to stop wheel spin from high revs) it doesn't do anything else to improve traction or stability.

That's true. In my experience it makes bog-all difference, apart from throttle response - I sometimes use it in heavy traffic 'cos it's easier to drive smoothley.

If there's no grip at all in snow, like the other day; 1st gear at tickover (foot off the pedal), one wheel just turning slowly on the ice then I find turning the traction control off and hoofing it in 2nd or 3rd is the only way to go - I've got a set of chains now for when it's that bad

[dribble]

Lee, that patch would be great. Tried regisrty hacks already, but I'll try anything! Win2k is my OS.

Ok mate, any specific homepage you want?

I will email you if you like... if you drop me a pm with ya details?

-Lee

[azwyn]

Any rear wheel drive car is cr*p to drive in the snow, especially BMW (saw two in the ditch 2weeks ago). My IS200 couldn't get up my hilly street the other week due to complete sheet of ice on the road.