[Racer X 69]

Was that the Farris Fawcett major truck stop?
I'll get me coat.

Bring your appetite.

[savoche]

Here, even you should get this one...

There once was a man from Nantucket

Who secretly married a bucket

He took it to bed the night they were wed

But couldn’t work out how to ....

...tuck it.

Very Canadian of him.

[Parallax]

And when driving in deep sand - wahtever you do, don't stop. The same goes for deep snow

It absolutely applies to deep mud as well. Believe me!

[robtcorl]

mud

Son used to take his '95 Jeep Cherokee on mud runs.
(maybe rename this thread the Car Thread?)

[robtcorl]

Bob number two, was this you?

[bertwert]

And when driving in deep sand - wahtever you do, don't stop. The same goes for deep snow, I suppose, but I've never actually driven in deep snow

"An object in motion remains in motion unless acted upon by an external force", ie momentum

[bertwert]

BTW, I'm a believer in having winter approved (Mountain snowflake deal) snow or all year (not all season) tires. We had Goodyear Assurance All Weather tires...with the winter approval symbol on our previous FWD sedan and they were excellent in winter. They replaced the standard factory all season hi po tires, that were lousy in winter conditions.

But these SUV all season tires surprised me with their winter grip, even at extreme temps. So much so, that I haven't determined the need to replace them. Remember though this is prairie, flatland driving not mountain driving which is a different kettle of fish.

Tire technology seems to be increasing quickly.

Over here, we're firm believers in separate summer and winter tyres. Having driven so called "all weather" tyres in icy conditions, I wouldn't trust them in the winter if I didn't have to (and they even had the mountain snowflake symbol!). The difference between those and properly designated winter tyres is night and day, especially if the winter tyres are studded.

The all weather tyres rubber compound is still too hard and not optimised for winter conditions, even though they met the symbol approval, so as to avoid wearing down in the summer. It's possible that's the specific model tyres we had however, and that there are different quality "all weather" ones out there.

(We're not let down though, as the "all weather" tyres were specifically bought for summer use, where we're both hauling loads and driving through mud.)

[robtcorl]

tyres

When you get weary, do you say you're tyred?
Sorry, I'm trying to learn a foreign language.

[Racer X 69]

Over here, we're firm believers in separate summer and winter tyres.

Me too.

Since I will only be driving the Z in the summer, I bought a set of these for it.

[Racer X 69]

(maybe rename this thread the Car Thread?)

Then we couldn’t have bacon.

[lesmore49]

Bob number two, was this you?

Sad to say, that was me. Lying like a lump on the library floor. Not a good pix of me though, don't think my stomach is that bad ! I got to start wearing some kind of shield to the library...something that will defeat the cattle prods librarians have been issued with.

[bertwert]

When you get weary, do you say you're tyred?
Sorry, I'm trying to learn a foreign language.

Good one Bob. I see that you're learning well, prefacing your second sentence with "sorry"

[robtcorl]

Good one Bob. I see that you're learning well, prefacing your second sentence with "sorry"

[savoche]

"An object in motion remains in motion unless acted upon by an external force", ie momentum

I think most people understood "don't stop"

Next lesson: Don't go too fast on sand. When you lift off on a wave you will dive nose first into the next. This will very much remove any shred of forward momentum (<--see?) you had up to this point.

Said momentum is in part converted to sound waves

[robtcorl]

Need a little (poisonous) protein with your salad?

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