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How is your porker coping wioth the snow?

Johnny C

Johnny C

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I've had no problems starting up in the morning - despite reported temps of around -17C last night near us.

Traction wise I had no problems yesterday except the entrance to MEN Arena car park which is about 8inches of slush, just took a lot of sprayed slush to get enought traction to move. Today is a bit worse, people who live 5 miles away ad have already taken 2 days off can't stay off work any more when people like me have been making a 40mile journey in. So all the covered car parks are full as most of the open ones are closed or inaccessible, I got into one open car park after an enjoyable slide along a snowy road but the car park is on a slope so when I tried to reverse up the slope the car lost it and slid to the bottom. I can drive forward to get out so hopefully I'll get home tonight! Told my boss I'm not coming in tomorrow though, it's not the journey, there's just nowhere to park.

Is anyone else braving it?
 
Same as she has every year I've had her - she's tucked up snug and warm(ish) in her garage and staying there! The shopping trolley can suffer the muck etc of driving in these conditions, I'm not about to get baby all mucky and not be able to wash her.
 
Can't get my pork out, and really having withdrawal symptoms now. the first couple of weeks was OK. walking was good for the ticker and a novelty seeing the car clean all the time. But enough is enough I NEED MY PORK and I need it now [:D]
 
Mine was parked up dirty on the 13th December (PCGB chrstmas dinner) in her carcoon and attempted to get her out twice but kept freezing up every time i tried to clean her over christmas. Finally managed to clean her on the 1st Jan and put her away again as roads throughly iced up. Indoor cover arrived on 2nd so i got her out and took her for a little drive in the ice (scary but fun) when she was purring i brought her home woiped her down and put her new fleece lined cover on and then plugged her into the charger on the carcoon and away she went again.

Missing her dreadfully but the £600 audi 80 i brought for winter has done me proud (and its german so hasn't missed a beat). Shame the noise of the engine isnt the same though.

Migt have to get it out this weekend and risk a journey to the first meeting of the year.

soon be spring!
 
I've not had any issues at all. The C4's taken everything thrown at it in it's stride - snow, slush, ice, down-hill gradients, up-hill gradients, the lot. Probably has as much to do with fitting winter tyres as the ability of the car and almost certainly nothing to do with the ability of the driver [;)]

993's (C2 and C4) are routinely used all year round in the land of their birth and are great fun in the snow, so get out there and enjoy them (but maybe get a set of winter tyres first [8|] [;)])

 
My C2 has been tucked up warmly in the garage since 17th December. I can only barely get out of the village in the Landrover with proper tyres, so I'm afraid the Porsche is a non starter. I did try a brief (essential) journey in the 993 before the latest snow, but lost the tail on the A303 at about 70 mph, due to black ice in the oovertaking lane. Not much fun. It did straighten up OK, but terrified the driver behind, who dropped right back out of sight.

 
Right, that's it. The C4 is coming out this weekend to see what it is like in the snow. All this talk about 993s getting out to stretch their legs has combined with my weekend plans being wrecked by BA cancelling my flight to pick up my new toy. Ordered a new campervan back in September and it's ready for collection now from down south - I'm itching to get my hands on it and have a play, but it will now have to languish at the dealer for an extra week.[:(]

I hope the snow does not get any worse over the next week....
 
No way for me... the ice on my road is at least 2 inches think ! I will bide my time... only another 10 days to go...(I HOPE)
 

ORIGINAL: Chrishazle

Same as she has every year I've had her - she's tucked up snug and warm(ish) in her garage and staying there! The shopping trolley can suffer the muck etc of driving in these conditions, I'm not about to get baby all mucky and not be able to wash her.
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Same here. I pop into the garage every couple of days when I am getting withdrawal symptoms, just to check all is OK. I'm itching for some warmer weather and dry roads.

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Mine is living outside at the moment, but used every weekend. After clearing the snow off the car I let it idle for about 10 minutes before driving and its fine. Some condensation occurs on the inside and the ABO light does come on occasionally. Its nice to drive a rear whell drive car in the snow, far easier to control than my usual fwd car and of course a very efficent heater.

Even managed a few spins yesterday in the empty car park at our local R10 meeting.
 
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