Diverted on the way home to see how good they are.

Answer = very.

Had fun in mine today; no probs at all with the Good-Year Ultragrip 8's. Roads here were virtually untouched by gritters or ploughs. Saw a few beemers fishtailing at around 10mph, a Z3 abandoned at the roadside and a 1 series saloon facing the wrong way, hazards flashing and driverless Took a main road from Southampton to Eastleigh, passed a Range Rover Sport doing about 15 at 45 Front wheel drive, winter tyres and some oppo lock FTMFW

Just noticed this is in the Yeti section, so disregard what I said. I drove sensibly at all times and passed a stationary RRS at 25mph which was the correct speed for the conditions.

I'm on Goodyear Ultragrip 8 tyres too.

I'm on Goodyear Ultragrip 8 tyres too.

very capapable tyres IMHO, Richard. Of course, it might just be the driver aswell

standard tyres get the grip to move off helped by the haldex, however I find the problem is stopping! as fiesta man in the clip found out, it was a good job sir galahad on his red stead decided to go for a drive down the lanes!

A Knight in red armour

Did he want a tug then?

Yes, handy having the towbar too.

The grip was so good I didn't seem to have any ASR or ABS coming in hardly at all either.

Quite impressed.

one of the old boys who used to work in our office stopped to help a guy who had got a car problem, John got out of his car to help and as he did a woman appeared from behind his car, jumped in the drivers seat and drove it away, the guy who had a problem shut his bonnet, got in his car and also drove away, leaving John stood in the road!

Be careful out there not all may be as it seems.

My car can be remotely immobilised and tracked with a just a phone call, same system as the GT-R.

Wise words though.

What this did highlight with me was the amazing all round ability of the vehicle.

I've done track days, commuted, family trips, helped out stuck motorists and towed other cars on trailers.

All for a realistic price while sitting on a heated and electric leather seat with good spec.

It really is such a good all round vehicle.

I bet it has an ejector seat, guns, oils slick and a smoke screen too!

I like the idea of remote immobiliser, this sort of technology can be made to deadlock the doors too if you have the knowledge.

I bet it has an ejector seat, guns, oils slick and a smoke screen too!

I couldn't have the ejector seat as I didn't spec the sunroof on mine. :(

I had a new set of winter tyres fitted to my spare alloys today, I thought the Monster was good before, now it's bloomin' marvellous!

It's the stability on icy roads and stopping distance which is most impressive.

one of the old boys who used to work in our office stopped to help a guy who had got a car problem, John got out of his car to help and as he did a woman appeared from behind his car, jumped in the drivers seat and drove it away, the guy who had a problem shut his bonnet, got in his car and also drove away, leaving John stood in the road!

Be careful out there not all may be as it seems.

How very true. I lost a nearly new car in fairly similar circumstances. Car was for sale - prospective purchaser (or not, as the case may be) was looking round it (after my having driven it for a short time to let him see how it drove) - the car was parked, foolishly with keys in ignition, and he jumped into drivers seat - off down the road - car never seen again (by me, at least).

On another point, the assistance offered to the other driver was exactly what I had in mind when I raised the TOWROPE topic on 8th December http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/258599-tow-ropes/#entry3042336 .... and why I bought that three ton strap from Amazon which raised one or two comments at the time.

Going slightly off topic, you guys might know the answer.

I collect the Audi this weekend, it is a quattro system so similar to the Yeti although the Yeti is more modern, on the Audi there is a diff lock button, this locks the rear diff until 25 mph is reached, do you think this same diff lock would retro fit to the rear diff on the Yeti to aid traction for those who use there Yeti for mud plugging?

You'd need some kind of locking mechanism in the rear diff that can be activated from outside the unit.

The Yeti does not have this, it relies on traction control across an open rear diff with no internal lock to make the rear shafts turn together.

I'd very much doubt it could be retro fitted.

One of the many over dramatised BBC TV news items from the "snow hell" today is of a car that had been shunted through a wall into someones garden, after having been hit by a Range Rover on a snowy corner.

I've been hoping for 20+ years that someone would fail to take the corner outside my house and demolish my front wall for me so their insurance would pay for it to be rebuilt.

In October I decided it was never going to happen, so paid for it myself. This afternoon........ well, you nearly guessed it! A Range Rover Sport failed to take the corner, and was only prevented from hitting the wall by his offside tyres being pulled along the kerb, the nearside of the vehicle being just 6" off my wall. Phew!

Unfortunately, he wrote off both offside 20 odd inch alloys, as the run along the kerb had machined away the inside rim of both alloys, deflating the tyres. I now have a nice silver kerb outside, with sparkly aluminuim alloy embedded in it!

He was still blaming the car as it was being recovered - he'd bought it ready for winter he said, because his Lexus was useless in snow. He wasn't impressed when I pointed out that a RR on bling alloys and rubber band summer tyres isn't any better!

Couldn't believe how long my first RR took to stop in bad conditions, but then at around 2800kg...

The marketing makes you think you just buy one and can go anywhere, anytime.

People buy into it.

As we know, it's never the fault of the driver these days. :wonder:

one of the old boys who used to work in our office stopped to help a guy who had got a car problem, John got out of his car to help and as he did a woman appeared from behind his car, jumped in the drivers seat and drove it away, the guy who had a problem shut his bonnet, got in his car and also drove away, leaving John stood in the road!

Be careful out there not all may be as it seems.

In the snow, in the middle of no-where.................

Just noticed this is in the Yeti section, so disregard what I said. I drove sensibly at all times and passed a stationary RRS at 25mph which was the correct speed for the conditions.

Don't worry, the majority of Yetis are 2wd as well :lol:

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In the snow, in the middle of no-where.................

Quite so, very unlikely that you'd come to grief in such circumstances. But when you've had it happen to you you don't forget it. You try having a stranger, who you've (mistakenly) taken in to your trust as a fellow human being, deliberately construct a set of circumstances where he knows he's going to take your car from you, no matter what. He dragged me 50 yards up the road as I hung on to the car (your brain just doesn't want to allow some scrote take your car from you from under your nose). It's not pleasant. I hope it doesn't happen to you.

In the snow, in the middle of no-where.................

It was near Upminster, semi rural and in the middle of summer, so probably no snow.

Just saying Graham you never know.

Going back to the original post, a good video. We had to travel along some very snowy A roads to visit my mother yesterday (my wife thought I was mad to attempt it). 2wd Yeti on Hankook winter tyres didn't put a paw wrong! We did get held up near Crawley by an accident - a 4wd Impreza had rammed a van. Expensive way to learn that 4wd doesn't help you stop in the snow :-(

Don't forget winter tyres don't mean you can drive as normal, they do give more grip in fresh snow but will still slide on ice. If going along that lane a little sooner the Focus/Fiesta would have probably taken Yeti into the tree with him. You may have them on lots of people haven't.

Be safe.

one of the old boys who used to work in our office stopped to help a guy who had got a car problem, John got out of his car to help and as he did a woman appeared from behind his car, jumped in the drivers seat and drove it away, the guy who had a problem shut his bonnet, got in his car and also drove away, leaving John stood in the road!

Be careful out there not all may be as it seems.

Always take your car keys with you. :yes:

And thanks for the interesting video BossFox. I was a little nervous when the white van started to slide towards you, and you backed off VERY sharply

Nice vid on the efficiency of winter tyres. Was driving a supermini on winter tyres yesterday and got blocked by a BMW trying to go up a moderately steep and icy lane. It failed, of course. I almost slipped getting out of the car to help push him to a parking spot on the side of the road - v glad my car was on winters!

Now I've fitted the equivalent of "winter tyres" to my shows - those elasticated "snow chains for shoes" that are almost pseudo-crampons - and very effective they are too! (Obviously you wouldn't drive a car wearing them, but they only take a minute to put on...).