Accident in the snow

Thanks for all the support guys.

I've just got off the phone with the other guy and we've both agreed not to go through our insurance. He's been to several garages today and got a quote of £120 to repair his damage.

He's also agree to pay me for any costs that occur for mine.

dogsbody said:
Dunno which would be the best way to proceed but i have a free silver wing if you need one.
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Quicksilver said:
I have a Frosty passenger door available, yours if you want it Mark.
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Thank you Mart and Andy for your very generous offers. If I could take you up on them, I'll just to need to sort out how to get them here, road trip? :beer:

Mako said:
There's no sill damage is there?
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Not that I can see, but will have a better look tomorrow.

Thanks once again and it just goes to show how great our community is. (y)
 
Why don't the UK population use M+S tyres? Never understood this. When you live in a country that pretty much rains every day and occasionally drops below 0 even for some days, doesn't it make sense to have a requirement to have at least 3mm of depth M+S tyres as a requirement?
 
lulzyboy said:
Why don't the UK population use M+S tyres? Never understood this. When you live in a country that pretty much rains every day and occasionally drops below 0 even for some days, doesn't it make sense to have a requirement to have at least 3mm of depth M+S tyres as a requirement?
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Makes perfect sense, but no, we don't.

We still have a ridiculous 1.6mm minimum tread depth to boot!
 
benham said:
Makes perfect sense, but no, we don't.

We still have a ridiculous 1.6mm minimum tread depth to boot!
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Since I bought my Cougar in UK, it came with 4 "UK" summer tyres. They were sliding around in +19 degree rain and even caused the ABS to come on at slow speeds due to losing traction. The reason I call them UK summer tyres is because the standard European model of summer tyre has more grip than the UK one. A UK summer tyre generally has three rings and then around a 3cm cut in from each side about 8cm apart from each other. A standard Euro summer tyre has waves of lines though the entire tyre rim and is thickened at the side to provide extra grip in rain.

In Scandinavia and Baltics the generally accepted "studded winter tyre" is mainly used which provides a very good grip on ice and snow

http://www.ducati.ms/gallery/files/8/0/2/6/225vs205.jpg -- UK summer tyre and normal studded winter
 
I don't know if our "summer" tyres are different to anybody elses, remember tread patterns vary by tyre manufacturer and model, many tyres available in the UK have very bulky sidewalls, infact it's usually the first thing noticed when mounting a "budget" vs. a "premium" tyre, the structure of the sidewalls!

Awful tyres are awful tyres, sounds like you just had "rubbish tyres" on that car more than anything else.

I agree about the law though, I'm all up for enforcing winter tyres over here, up the motorway speed limit to 90mph and enforce vehicle separation rather than speed......

That's my view anyway!
 
lulzyboy said:
The reason I call them UK summer tyres is because the standard European model of summer tyre has more grip than the UK one. A UK summer tyre generally has three rings and then around a 3cm cut in from each side about 8cm apart from each other. A standard Euro summer tyre has waves of lines though the entire tyre rim and is thickened at the side to provide extra grip in rain.
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So if I bought a Contintental SportContact 5 or Michelin Pilot Sport 3 in the UK, it would have a different tread pattern to a Continental SportContact 5 or Michelin Pilot Sport 3 bought in Germany?
 
Anyway back to Mark's thread.

Mark, you're more than welcome to collect the door or I could come part of the way with it depending on when you need it by.

If it's less hassle though, Paisley Freight will move a car door for £26:50.

https://www.paisleyfreight.com

It has the glass in it but you'll need to swap handles, cards etc from yours to make it good again.
 
Thanks both again. Getting them both delivered would be great, as I don't have much free time for the next 2 weekends and I'd rather not take a day off work to get it sorted.

This will be the second time I've changed the passenger door since having the car (see old post Things come in 3's (Passenger door) )
 
MRT803 said:
Thanks both again. Getting them both delivered would be great, as I don't have much free time for the next 2 weekends and I'd rather not take a day off work to get it sorted.

This will be the second time I've changed the passenger door since having the car (see old post Things come in 3's (Passenger door) )
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See post no.8 in your link :LOL:

If you'd like to arrange the courier and give me some idea as to when it might be I'll PM you the best address to collect from(probably my mum's as she's at home most of the time). (y)
 
Just caught up here. Bad news to begin with Mark but so glad it seems to be sorted, almost. Damage does look cosmetic thankfully. A few bolts removed and replaced to put it right again.
Reminds me how easy it is to lose control this weather. Yesterday morning approaching a T junction, i knew it was bad and so i was only approaching the last few yards at appx 10mph when the wheels locked up. I was sure i was going to overshoot the junction and had already clocked no approaching traffic from the right, so i turned left, managing to stop on the line :eek:. A few disgusted looks from a woman driver approaching from the left, possibly as she couldn't understand why my wheels were at full left lock but my right indicators were flashing. Either that or i stopped her from cutting the corner. :)
 
Quicksilver said:
See post no.8 in your link :LOL:

If you'd like to arrange the courier and give me some idea as to when it might be I'll PM you the best address to collect from(probably my mum's as she's at home most of the time). (y)
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If a relay is needed and I'm geographically appropriate, I'm happy to be a node along the part's route.
 
lulzyboy said:
Why don't the UK population use M+S tyres? Never understood this. When you live in a country that pretty much rains every day and occasionally drops below 0 even for some days, doesn't it make sense to have a requirement to have at least 3mm of depth M+S tyres as a requirement?
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It's a legal requirement here. Winter tyres go on in October and stay on til April. Big fines if you get caught out and having the wrong tyres invalidates your insurance in the event of an accident.
 
Quicksilver said:
See post no.8 in your link :LOL:
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Haha, that's quite funny. If you could get a stockpile in for me, I'll need a new one about every 16 months at this rate.

Quicksilver said:
If you'd like to arrange the courier and give me some idea as to when it might be I'll PM you the best address to collect from(probably my mum's as she's at home most of the time). (y)
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I'll have a look into it at the start of next week and let you know.
 
Arkady001 said:
It's a legal requirement here. Winter tyres go on in October and stay on til April. Big fines if you get caught out and having the wrong tyres invalidates your insurance in the event of an accident.
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A few things:

1) We get the benefit of the jetstream, so our weather isn't as nasty as yours is. It's very rare that our roads are impassible, and that's why it makes the news in the first place.
2) Our roads aren't constructed the same as they are on the continent. Our tarmac is made to a different formula. We get better grip, but less life.
3) If we mandated "winter tyres" we would end up with the same situation that exists in Switzerland, "Of course we will change your tyres because the government has told you to. That will be CHF600 and a CHF1200 storage fee."

No thanks.
 
I change my own. Spare set of slightly scuffed Cougar alloys for winter and my 'good' ones for the Summer. Tyres last twice as long as you're only using them 6 months at a time, so apart from the initial 400,- outlay (correct size tyres are plentiful here as more cars use that size, plus more Cougars were sold and are still on the streets - at least 5 in my town alone) running costs are approximately the same.
Given that UK has now had several winters in the last decade which buck the 'warm and wet' theory, I have to disagree.
You currently have about twice as much snow lying on the ground as we do. It only takes one slip to write your car off as I know to my cost. What price all-season tyres then?
 
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