Snow driving

**Rebellion8878** · 18th December 2010, 18:46

Had a fair bit of snow and took quite a few hours to do a 20 mile journey today, the car has been lowered and was a bit of a snow plow lol. Just wanted to know does all this snow under the car scraping along cause any damage, can't be good for the engine?

**vauxhall-john** · 18th December 2010, 19:28

cant see it doing any damage tbh mate, worst that will happen is if you go over a really harld bit of ice it could damage your brake pipes or fuel lines exhaust etc,

depending on what your car is you might have a plastic cover under your engine, but thats normally just diesels.

**Rebellion8878** · 18th December 2010, 19:39

Cheers John don't envy you up there, must be mayhem or maybe better prepared

**barney490** · 18th December 2010, 20:27

First real snow here this winter and i can't even go out and see how well or poorly the Vectra performs. Had a strange turn the other day and been told by the hospital that i can't drive for four weeks, they say it might have been a transient ischaemic attack (TIA), google it.

**PORKBALLS29** · 18th December 2010, 21:04

is that like a mini stroke barney?

**roswell** · 18th December 2010, 21:21

If you still have the rubber lip on the front bumper take it off before the snow does it for you :-0 thats the best advice i have

**benamir** · 18th December 2010, 21:31

Hey Barney , Don't worry about the driving ,you just look after yourself mate.

benamir

**John35** · 18th December 2010, 21:48

Originally Posted by barney490

First real snow here this winter and i can't even go out and see how well or poorly the Vectra performs. Had a strange turn the other day and been told by the hospital that i can't drive for four weeks, they say it might have been a transient ischaemic attack (TIA), google it.

I had a TIA after an operation so I know how frightening it is. Hopefully you are back to normal. Apparently its quite common. No recurrence for me and they gave me statins for life. Apparently a very good drug...

**mark1319** · 18th December 2010, 22:01

As long as it's fresh fluffy snow your OK, but once the chucks of ice start forming then you'll want to keep an eye open. I was the same when it snowed up here, just had to push it out the way and on a few occasions got stuck on top of it LOL.

Worst thing that could happen is the ice could crack your sump, but that'll need a good whack to do that

**vauxhall-john** · 19th December 2010, 00:29

Originally Posted by Rebellion8878

Cheers John don't envy you up there, must be mayhem or maybe better prepared

lol yeah was pretty bad the first week we got it but its all turned to hard ice now, worries me when my mrs is out in the car,

i keep a shovel and jump leads and water etc in the car just incase i do get stuck, but i find myself digging out other people more than anything,