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The December 17th/18th Travel Disruption Thread
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Nadenoodlee, How quickly did he get them on the car though ? Toofy Grin
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geepee, Laughing Laughing Laughing

thing is, there are winter tyres and winter tyres. some aren't much good in the first place, and none of them is much good without loads of tread. In these sort of conditions it makes sense for the police to insist on chains, just to keep people moving up the mountain. Even after quite a lot of winter driving I still find it hard to judge when I am going to need chains. sometimes the snow tyres seem to do impossible climbs, other times a little bit of slush defeats them - it's better to just get them on, when conditions for doing so are still OK, than to risk becoming the one they all love to hate, struggling in the middle of a narrow road with 2 metre walls of snow down each side.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Holed up in F1 Annemasse en route to Saint Gervais (recommend the pizzeria here by the way) Quite possibly the easiest trip alpwards I've ever done with almost nothing on the autoroute the whole way down. Calais to Annemasse in 8hrs on the nose. Anticipating an uneventful if possibly chained up climb to 700m tomorrow - then game on snowHead snowHead snowHead snowHead

The flying bogee and "liability" Josh (courtesy of his penchant for being airlifted off the mountain) are beside themselves ...... I suppose reins on a 14year old would be completely out of the question???? snowHead
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Very straightforward trip today the motorways both in UK and France were very quiet. Easy drive up to Montalbert, all those we passed putting on chains made us grateful once again for winter tyres and a 4x4!
Certainly looks like a good snowfall, although no sunshine forecast for tomorrow, we may go out for a look around the pistes Toofy Grin wink
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pam w wrote:
some aren't much good in the first place, and none of them is much good without loads of tread.
But a low quality winter tyre is still going to be significantly better than a decent summer tyre in conditions like we have today. I bought the cheapest Asian winter tyres I could find recently (new car meant budget was tight) and they were brilliant today. Absolutely no problems with traction, when many, many cars struggled to make progress up the hill.
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rob@rar, I bought a full set of Continentals, which really hurt the budget, as I had just paid for two new tyres, fully expecting them to be the M&S type (no snowflake) which have been fiine in the past. Turned out they were only Chelsea tractor tyres, so I choked and forked out for the winter ones when the garage said we needed to replace two more.
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Took my brother in law about 40 minutes to get up to val thorens from moutiers arriving just in the early hours of today, 4x4 hire car with winter tyres, no problem
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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!

i had a discovery last year and that was great going up the mountains.

This year the front wheel drive volvo with winter tyres has been nearly as good going up the mountain and with snow chains seems to be able to get up anything. Got up to Val Thorens on Saturday morning very easily. It would have been fine just with the winter tyres to be honest.
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