Help! Sheet Ice

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We dont get bad winters that much so I am a bit of a novice at winter driving. The roads around here are like 3 inches of sheet polished glass at the moment and most people aint moving just spinning in circles. Whats the best gear selection for these conditions in a landy 110. Cheers.
 
js5533 said:
We dont get bad winters that much so I am a bit of a novice at winter driving. The roads around here are like 3 inches of sheet polished glass at the moment and most people aint moving just spinning in circles. Whats the best gear selection for these conditions in a landy 110. Cheers.
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Keep the revs down and use as high a gear as you can, avoid wide throttle openings. Putting your wheels in/on the verge on uncompacted snow will find you more grip - it works for me keeping a 40 ton artic moving in wintry conditions so you should have no probs in a 110 ;)
 
boomer speaks sence :) , def diff lock in and high gear , off road bias tires help a lot too . but having said that landys are not fans of ice , snow yeah they love it but ice is almost as bad as being in a car .
 
js5533 said:
We dont get bad winters that much so I am a bit of a novice at winter driving. The roads around here are like 3 inches of sheet polished glass at the moment and most people aint moving just spinning in circles. Whats the best gear selection for these conditions in a landy 110. Cheers.
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Engine off, select nuetral and apply handbrake.
Sit down in front of the TV with a warm brew.
Wait until ice melts. :)
 
Im with Shifty. Don't bother if you don't have to. I went out last friday, loved the snow, but hit some black ice on the way home... New roof, door, winscreen surround, windscreen, both wings, bonnet, radius arm, wheel, tyre. Enough said?!
 
Slid in to hedges twice recently in the landy. I prefer little lanes that are death traps the entire way along to big main roads with little patches here and there. That really is dangerous when you don't expect it. I've found ice to be fine with diff lock, and _very_ careful driving. You need to be dropping down the gears and using the slightest bit of brakes before you get any where near bends in the road! If you start going round a right hand bend, and you start sliding left, then turning your steering to the left can help your wheels regain traction. It's a bit counter-intuitive and sometimes it's too late by then anyway!
 
I used to use studded snow tires on my Porsche 914 when I lived in the New Mexico mountains, it coped well. Don't know if they are still available.
 
Put spiked tyres on - illegal on a public road but will keep you moving in the right direction . Pain to have to remove them when the ice stops and carrying a second set of gyres is also a pain
 
If the journey aint essential, don't bother trying to drive on ice. I did a breakdown in wells on the day before christmas eve. I got up a steep compacted snow incline ok in my truck. It rained when I'd been doing the job. When I went to come back down the slope it had turned to sheet ice. I just let the truck go at the speed it wanted and steered it as straight as I could. I made the bottom of the hill unscathed but the 2 vehicles that had been behind me never re-appeared.:eek::eek::eek:
 
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