Marwood
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Went out the other morning for a 6am run (one advantage of having a five month old: helps you get up and out before the traffic...) only for the ice warning on the GS to start pinging... Drove around rather gingerly until it showed 4 degrees then pressed on..and a bit harder...
Observations:
1. Strewth this thing grips. I've been reading about summer tyres losing performance below 8 degrees but the car showed no signs of letting go at a fairly brisk rate. Decided the road wasn't the place to experiment so didn't push as hard as in the warm weather but still enough to make fillings ache...
2. Realise, sadly, that early morning blasts are going to be increasingly dark, wet and slippery. So need to decide whether I'm a winter warrior or car polishing wuss...
I know it won't dissolve in the rain (its been drenched plenty in the past), there is fun to be had in the gloom and the nose is already stone chipped, but if I don't have to get it wet and grimy on a work trip, the temptation will be to leave it in the garage and wait for dry days, rather than take it out and then park it for two or three weeks at a time, dripping.
On the other hand, I understand cars that don't get used tend to 'go off' and get gremlins. How often is enough?
M
Observations:
1. Strewth this thing grips. I've been reading about summer tyres losing performance below 8 degrees but the car showed no signs of letting go at a fairly brisk rate. Decided the road wasn't the place to experiment so didn't push as hard as in the warm weather but still enough to make fillings ache...
2. Realise, sadly, that early morning blasts are going to be increasingly dark, wet and slippery. So need to decide whether I'm a winter warrior or car polishing wuss...
I know it won't dissolve in the rain (its been drenched plenty in the past), there is fun to be had in the gloom and the nose is already stone chipped, but if I don't have to get it wet and grimy on a work trip, the temptation will be to leave it in the garage and wait for dry days, rather than take it out and then park it for two or three weeks at a time, dripping.
On the other hand, I understand cars that don't get used tend to 'go off' and get gremlins. How often is enough?
M