Snow gates in Scotland (2023 Update)

[The Natural Philosopher]

The ghastliest one I read of, was a woman who was killed by the impact of her seatbeltless son's head fracturing her skull as he sat right behind her....

[The Natural Philosopher]

Its odd. Mate has a volvo and a second hand alloy was £200, but I got a jaguar wheel and tyre for £130.

Steel wheels ain't £150.

[rbowman]

That's a fancy foreign car. Do you get nailed for EU imports since Brexit?

That's in line with US prices considering it's a 20" wheel and I was mostly seeing 15".

[The Natural Philosopher]

Yes. You can pay over the odds for what amounts to a 'utility' wheel, but you dont *have* to.

[Jim gm4dhj ...]

[Colin Bignell]

All but one of my 4x4s have had permanent four wheel drive.

[Colin Bignell]

Illegal in the UK.

[Commander Kinsey]

In Scotland, there simply isn't impassible snow. The modern health and softy brigade closes roads for 1-2cm of snow! I drove my VW Golf (standard low profile tyres, not winter tyres or chains) uphill through almost a foot of snow successfully. All you need is skill and/or an automatic gearbox.

Modern snowcats go 10-18mph. Or you could just use a snowmobile, those are very fast.

[Commander Kinsey]

Everything's illegal in the UK. Rules are for the obedience of fools.

So they made a safety feature illegal, ROTFPMSL!

[The Natural Philosopher]

Hmm... are they? I thought they were OK if the road was fully snow covered

It it isn't the tyre will wear out a lot faster than the road

[Commander Kinsey]

Ah, not my definition of trailer. This is a trailer:

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[Commander Kinsey]

That's their choice and their problem.

There you go then. You did it, they failed. Their problem, not yours.

You can follow a truck with a 2 inch gap and save a tonne of fuel.

[Dean Hoffman]

These are specialized but I've pulled one with a 3/4 ton pickup with farm equipment on it.

Thank goodness it's fairly flat ground around here.

[Commander Kinsey]

Don't get snow that deep here, they close the roads for a predicted 1-2cm, it was in the news.

[Commander Kinsey]

Big deal, you stop the car, get out, and have a snowball fight.

[Commander Kinsey]

This is my f****ng point, we do not need closed roads in this country. Anywhere that gets snow as deep as the links recently provided, it would either be blindingly obvious you couldn't get through, or they could just put up a sign saying "x feet of snow y miles ahead".

[Commander Kinsey]

Ahh, you're one of those that fall for media hype and exaggeration. You see 20 people dying without seatbelts, but you discount the 50 billion journeys with no crash. I guess you're the type that thought the covid virus was something to worry about, something which killed less than cancer, less than kidney disease, and less than the world population growth. Insignificant.

[Commander Kinsey]

Our government is only concerned with their money, not ours. They fit speedbumps which destroy our tyres and suspension at our expense (no matter what speed you go at), making half the vehicles on the road unroadworthy and dangerous. But they ticked their pathetic little box. It's even been shown you can't drive at the speed limit over most bumps without really f****ng your car. If the limit is 20, why does the bump require you to go 5?

[Colin Bignell]

AIUI, it is an EU regulation that they cannot be used unless the Member State specifically allows their use in domestic legislation, which UK legislation does not. That may, of course, change as we shed EU regulations.

However, the Construction and Use Regulations, which are home grown, make it an offence to drive a vehicle with a tyre not suitable for the use it is being put to and also for having any defect in a tyre that may cause damage to the surface of the road. So, while that could allow studded tyres to be used on fully snow or ice covered roads, to be legal, the driver would have to stop and change to unstudded tyres upon reaching a tarmac surface.

[Max Demian]

Things on the bottom of football boots.

Or lengths of threaded rod, such as the ones you screw the wheel nuts on.

Or maybe something else. So vague.