Car sliding down driveway!

gibbsy

A salutary lesson. The owners were prosecuted.

Girl aged 23 months killed after runaway Range Rover rolls down hill

Ste7en

Oh, I have no doubt how serious it could have been (let's face it, it is an out of control driverless car).

As I've already said, I clear our driveway more than anyone else on the entire estate. If I'm out I can't clear it though. We came back in the middle of a storm and went indoors (leukaemia and an almost zero immune system tends to make you not want to clear a drive in horizontal sleet in the pitch black and freezing wind).

All season tyres booked for fitting after Christmas.

larkone

Warm engine and potentially warm tyres will cause the surface of any ice/snow to melt between the tyres and solid ground when you park - water on ice is nearly as slippery as teflon. Need to clear the ice/snow on any slope or you are risk of it sliding - simples

nvingo

Ah, so slippage is much more likely just after parking on the slope than at any other time?

outoftheknow

I haven’t looked for a link but a driver was killed here in Oz today by his own car. Got out and went round the front and it slipped down a bank and ran him over. Carried on into a ditch..

No snow (it’s summer here and 30 degrees), this one was mud after rain I believe - so it is just something to be aware of on anything other than dry and clean tarmac I guess

Ste7en

Yep, and as I've said I always do this. This was an exception. That night was particularly bad. I have a mate who was out on his mountain bike and when the rain hit his handlebars it froze immediately.

Bl4ckGryph0n

There you go then You can cancel the new tyres. Just clear the driveway. Job done and it is gratis

ChuckMountain

Winter tyres are not particularly better on pure ice, what you need is studded tyres in that case.  Unfortunately, last time I looked they were illegal in the UK

Ste7en

I wish. Doesn't help much when you are driving around though

RBZ5416

Sounds like the same conditions that caused chaos on the M11 back in 2003. Freshly compacted snow freezing immediately to ice. Possibly a bit extreme but you could consider a ground anchor for securing motorbikes & a cable to clip onto the towing eye.