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While I am sitting in the passenger seat of the car going down a hill chained up. Time for a rant.

1. Why don't people read the instruction when they put them on instead of letting them snap or come off while driving

2. Why do BMW drivers try to get uphill without chains and end up getting towed?

3. Why do some 'local' drivers seem think it is ok to race down a snowy road and overtake on the outside of a bend with cars coming the other way?

4. At what stage do you take the chains off?

Safe journey to all those going back today, and for the guy who just passed us with his rear wheel wobbling, don't use luck - use a spanner!!!!

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Iceman wrote:
4. At what stage do you take the chains off?
:shock:

Sometime before you reach the channel ports is usually advisable :mrgreen:

We went for the slush time. Now on tarmac and still some drivers with them. Don't think they were compulsion today as police not enforcing

Iceman wrote:While I am sitting in the passenger seat of the car going down a hill chained up. Time for a rant.

1. Why don't people read the instruction when they put them on instead of letting them snap or come off while driving

2. Why do BMW drivers try to get uphill without chains and end up getting towed?

3. Why do some 'local' drivers seem think it is ok to race down a snowy road and overtake on the outside of a bend with cars coming the other way?

4. At what stage do you take the chains off?

Safe journey to all those going back today, and for the guy who just passed us with his rear wheel wobbling, don't use luck - use a spanner!!!!

:shock:

Hi, Iceman...

In answer to your thoughts may I offer my own :D ..

1- Lack of foresight and thought, and maybe they think yes we will take them , but we wont need them ....bad move, practice before you go is my answer.

2- As Mr Clarkson says on many occasions , BMW's are driven by c***s ( mind you it's changed to Audi drivers now I think ? )...it's the I have an expensive German car, I should be able to go anywhere syndrome.....again in the winter....delusional I fear.

3- In my part of the Alps ( Tarentaise/Savoie ) tail-gating seems to be a national sport , which is undertaken by those whom consider dents in their car/s as badges of honor, drive slower it annoys the hell out of them :D ......your life is more important than the idiot doing the tail-gating :D

4- Chains should be taken off when the road has insufficient snow/ice cover ( when the road is pretty much clear to be honest ), if you continue to use chains when the road is clear you will eventually destroy your tyre's rubber and in many cases the road surface ( this is the advantage of snow/winter tyre's , you do not have to keep taking them on and off when the road gets clear again only to put them back on further up or down the road ).....but in many countries even if you have winter tyre's it's still a legal requirement to have chains ).

jon.

Cheers Jon!

Tail gating was not a problem, they just overtook up to 5 cars at a time. Assuming nothing was coming round a bend.

Now, putting chains on a bus must be hard!!

BMW drivers. Simple, as Jon G says, Clarkson is right. ALL of them.

I haven't needed to use my snow chains yet apart from last week when I got stuck on ice in a car park. I didn't however put them on. What is did was wedge the whole bag (one set of our chains are in a round canvas bag) behind the wheel that was spinning and reverse over it slowly. I then got out put the bag back in the boot and carried on my way. :thumbup:

She wont learn how to put them on!! I have tried and tried!