Rabbers 223 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Looks good in all kinds of weather... 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PCM 661 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Nice! What tyres do you use? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
royoftherovers 2,508 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 12 minutes ago, Rabbers said: Looks good in all kinds of weather... 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄 Where are you? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rabbers 223 Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 5 minutes ago, PCM said: What tyres do you use? Pirelli SottoZero (currently gen. 3) from November through April. 6 minutes ago, PCM said: Nice! What tyres do you use? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rabbers 223 Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 5 minutes ago, royoftherovers said: Where are you? Approx. 70km south of Milan. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
royoftherovers 2,508 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 28 minutes ago, Rabbers said: Approx. 70km south of Milan. Quite a bit of bad weather in Italy then.Thanks Renato. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Linas.P 1,401 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 On 12/30/2020 at 4:43 PM, royoftherovers said: Quite a bit of bad weather in Italy then.Thanks Renato. That is what I would normally call good weather during Christmas/New Years - snow adds that festive spirit! 😁 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rabbers 223 Posted January 3 Author Share Posted January 3 6 hours ago, Linas.P said: ... snow adds that festive spirit! 😁 Indeed it does, though it has been depressingly observed that the festive spirit has, like snow, a tendency to turn to slush. Personally I like snow as depicted on postcards more than in real life and I am equally partial to videos of supercars doing controlled skids on icy tracks in places like Lapland as long as they don't encourage imitators in my own neighbourhood. Generally speaking I am not at all sure whether cars objectively lend themselves to manifestations of seasonal jollity. I once saw a car with what looked to be custom-fitted Santa's Hat covers on the wing-mirrors but the idea, while not wholly devoid of festive charm, seems not to have caught on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
royoftherovers 2,508 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 7 hours ago, Linas.P said: That is what I would normally call good weather during Christmas/New Years - snow adds that festive spirit! 😁 Noted, Linas. You say Tomayto and I say Tomarto ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Linas.P 1,401 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 It may be just me, but I like snow... that is perfect setting for Christmas and New Years. And it would rather be very cold and dry (like -10C at least), then you get nice snow powder - sure nobody like the slush as that is no way better than cold rain. Now I don't have where to bleeping stick my fireworks as if you stick them in the mud they will get stuck in the ground. And decorating Christmas tree when it is raining outside equally feels weird, so I just don't do it in UK. Maybe because snow is customary for Christmas in the place I came from. As for driving, I enjoy driving on snow and ice - provided I am on proper winter tyres (like SottoZero) and still have marginal control of the car. In London I would rather avoid driving when it snows than fit winter tyres for those 2 days when they actually beneficial. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The-Acre 2,190 Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 50 minutes ago, Linas.P said: It may be just me, but I like snow... that is perfect setting for Christmas and New Years. And it would rather be very cold and dry (like -10C at least), then you get nice snow powder - sure nobody like the slush as that is no way better than cold rain. Now I don't have where to bleeping stick my fireworks as if you stick them in the mud they will get stuck in the ground. And decorating Christmas tree when it is raining outside equally feels weird, so I just don't do it in UK. Maybe because snow is customary for Christmas in the place I came from. As for driving, I enjoy driving on snow and ice - provided I am on proper winter tyres (like SottoZero) and still have marginal control of the car. In London I would rather avoid driving when it snows than fit winter tyres for those 2 days when they actually beneficial. I like to see some snow as long as it doesn't hang around for too long but we rarely get it here on the Sussex coast. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rabbers 223 Posted January 4 Author Share Posted January 4 Although I've once or twice needed to dig myself out of snowdrifts, I've never had any serious mishaps in snowy or icy conditions on normal roads and in normal traffic. So, apart from the usual uncomfortable feeling of not being in complete control of the car and the belief that other drivers are less worried about possibly hitting me than I am about hitting them, my dislike of anything but the lightest snow is not based on any specific bad experience. It is based, rather, on the fact that I live at the bottom of a long and steep incline consisting of sections of old cobblestones and age-worn granite slabs. The presence of compacted snow and/or dense slush on these kinds of surfaces means that winter tyres as an alternative to chains are an absolute necessity. In such conditions, provided that SNOW-mode is on and TRC and VSC are off, and with 1st Gear engaged and creeping speed maintained, the RC can negotiate the hill satisfactorily in either direction, though I invariably expect a few rear wobbles, especially when moving off after undesirable but occasionally necessary full stops. Both of the IS300h's I had before my first RC, one of them with the same fatter rear tyres as the RC, seemed to keep a straighter trajectory when moving off on compacted snow than the RC, which may have been the result of a gentler pedal response or a more favourable distribution of weights, but the differences between the models is really no more than marginal. The thought of having had to negotiate the hill in the IS250s that preceded my first IS300h brings back unfond memories of frequent losses of control and sometimes quite violent fishtailing as a prelude to ending up sideways, my prayers for snow-free winters having usually gone unanswered. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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