Well the old girl got me safely home tonight.

Glad I left the winter tyres on

I was the only person up the street this evening.

And yes that really is snow up to the bottom of the front bumper

We have around 30cm of snow and some of the drifts were around 3 feet deep

Had lots of fun anyway, the Scout with winters really is unstopable.

Good pics, I actually thought you'd been out and put on your show plates before taking the first couple of pictures!

Are they DRL's in the grill or your unmarked Police strobes

No snow here in York yet, seems we've got off lightly, was looking forward to taking our Scout out over the weekend!

Last time is snowed a month or so ago I actually went out to find some deep snow to give the Haldex a bit of exercise and make sure everything was working as it should!

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Pics should all have had Scout across the number plate (Edited it Photobucket), not sure whats gone wrong there.

Bring your Scout over here, plenty of snow to test the Halde in.

I can heartily recomend the Nangkang SV2 winter tyres. Cheap unknown brand but really work in snow.

Like it and agree in fresh snow it takes a lot to stop a Scout. I went up some pretty steep farm tracks in the last lot of snow, and walking back down the hill I realised there was barely any wheelspin. I have Dunlop Wintersport 4Ds. I realise ice is different matter...

Driving to work in my 4x4 this morning with the winter tyres on through slush and big puddles and I might as well have been on a dry road in July. Its still snowing here so I will have to wait and see if we have enough snow to make things interesting in the morning.

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Are they DRL's in the grill or your unmarked Police strobes

DRL's came fitted in the SuperSkoda grill.

That's deep. What tyres are you running?

I'm hoping for a dump this winter to test mine out. Maybe 3 more months.

That's deep. What tyres are you running?

I'm hoping for a dump this winter to test mine out. Maybe 3 more months.

Tyres are cheapy Nangkang SV2 but work very well.

Don't think the car will be moving today, it has snowed all night as is now nearly to the top of the wheels.

Here's an update after a night of snow. And still it snows!

Wow!

I'd take it down the road and back just to prove to the neighbours that I could!

Wow!

I'd take it down the road and back just to prove to the neighbours that I could!

I did just that There was virgin snow in one of the side roads to my street, so by 12:00 I thought its time someone made a trail in it. Some guy digging his drive just stood there watching me. Calmly drove up through the snow, turned around as its a dead end and drove back to my route. Winter tyres and 4x4 are an unstoppable combo. I did nearly beach it when I went to the shops though

Couldn't help the smug mug I wore yesterday coming home from work. Roads were passable with care but one stretch had a 50yd drift alongside a field that was approx 18" deep on my side and what looked a good 3' deep on the other.

Coming the other way was a gritter lorry (no blade) which stopped at the far side of the drift waiting to see what I would do; which was to drop down into 2nd gear, keep the revs steady, and blow through without so much as a wiggle.

The 'WTF!' look on the faces of the gritter pilot and his mate were a sight to behold!

Gotta love that stealth-mode 4x4 action

Got several exclamations of surprise today from the neighbours about how I managed to get up the street.

The fact a disco tried to get up this afternoon and got stuck made me think again about moving mine.

Just demonstrated the difference winter rubber makes to driving to a friend of mine. He had heard of them but didn't see what all the fuss was about. The braking performance on his road with a covering of now freezing snow was a lot different from his Astra on summer tyres.

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My mate, the proud owner of a Nissan Juke Nismo, (ugly brutes, the pair of 'em), went through the same drift about 15 mins after I did and found it ''interesting'' with summer tyres on. (He refuses to pay for winter rubber saying he'd rather spend his money on ''beer''....). He did however insist that it was nearer 12'' deep on the 'shallow' side and about 2' on the other - not that I'm prone to exaggeration you understand...

Even so, if he'd seen me cruise through as effortlessly as I did he might have been sufficiently impressed to invest in a set of Nokians - 5* IMHO.

Nice PIC of Scout and to hear its unstoppable!