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"Dave Liquorice" wrote:

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:47:02 +0000, Simon Wyndham wrote:

I forgot to mention that one of the cars that was stuck was a
Freelander! Another unique thing. People who buy offroad cars not
realising that they are offroad cars!

I wouldn't call a Freelander an off roader. ISTR that they don't have
a diff lock but emulate it using the brakes, opposite of ABS. ie a
wheel starts to spin, it gets braked. If all the wheels start to spin
they all get braked... Probably works provided only one or two wheels
loose traction but on ice you have very little traction available on
all wheels.

As for driving skills on snow/ice. Remember that anyone living down
south (below Manchester ish) and younger than about 30 has probably
never driven on snow before in their life.

And it's frightening to think that it only takes one of them to get it wrong
to block a road!

And some of them are driving articulated lorries!



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