German Car Forum

So today it has been snow non-stop, about 6 inches as of right now(5PM), compounded by the fact that this is the great plains so it is extremely windy. The roads are very slick, especially since the snow removal services in this city are absolutely terrible. Anyways diving home from class today, about 3PM, go over a one lane bridge, that goes up and then down, and slighly curves. The guy in front of me starts to slide on the way down and slams into the side railing and kinda slides at an angle in the road before coming to a stop, probably going about 25-30mph. I see this happen and realize there is no way in hell I am going to be able to brake and avoid hitting him, slightly tap the breaks to try and slow down, it seems inevitable that I will nail him. So I honk and try to go around him while he was up against the wall, then he rebounds from the wall right as I am trying to squeeze by him with oncoming traffic. I almost hit the oncoming car head on probably going about 30mph, I just barely squeezed through, with probably an inch on either side of my car. Scared me shltless, god d_mn snow.



I am the silver car.

Happily you were driving an excellent car and nothing happened to you.

How much for that Rembrandt?!

Seriously. Glad you and the car made it out okay!

Quattro help?

Glad your ok! Have never driven in the snow before. Not sure I really want to either

wow.. sounds like a thrill..
glad your safe..

Snow adds a bit of excitement in your life.

I 'm glad that you are OK though.

Thanks guys.

yeah, I am sure quattro didn't hurt in this situation, but it was more the dude in front not knowing how to drive his crappy neon in the snow.

Man there are not a whole lot of things that freak me out than the feeling of about to nail a big ford F-150 head on, with next to no control of my car.

That was tight...Glad you're okay...

I quite like driving in the snow, but when there is not much traffic. If there are a lot of other cars I drive slowly and keep a huge margin from the cars in front of me, mostly because I generally don't have winter tyres and know there is absolutely no brakes without them...

The best was one night, full snow and me in the smart roadster-coupe (rear-engined, RWD, even if not that powerful)...ESP off and drift all the way, a pleasure. The only thing is that there were two big climbs...I tried to accelerate before them, and in these climbs to throttle just enough to keep going but just not too much not to spin the wheels...My speed went down..I thought I would not manage them, but fortunately I did...

The only moment where I was a bit scared is when someone in an old Peugeot, with winter tyres of course, braked to take a curve. I was, what, maybe 100m behind him, easily. And I saw him braking, so I gently hit the brakes... I was way behind him, so no stress...but he was still braking, so I brake harder...and of course without winter tyres it brakes reaally softly...and he came nearer and nearer, he was still braking, and I had almost no brakes...nearer, nearer...I used the handbrake very gently not to spin...and eventually he took the curve and re-throttled... I was not very far from him any more... I really thought I would hit him.

But I never had such an hazardous situation like yours, fortunately.

Bloody hell mate, sounds too close to call..

Luckily you didnt do any damage tho.. Did you have chains on?