On my way to work today in a 1cm of snow

I pulled into the carpark of the local spar and prodeeded to have fun on the slippy surface.

I put my foot to the floor and the DSC jumped in straight away, then did the same with Snow/gravel selected and there was no slipping of the wheels.

Left it in snow mode till i got to the office, and just been out again and the car was back in normal mode.

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Same on mine npinks. Have you tried the brakes, or the snow was not enough to do that?

not tried the brakes yet it never got deep enough to play

I've been having the very fine snow, all day but it melts staight away, think its got to 1cm first thing

Its was that nice sticky snow thats ideal to make mini snowballs for my 2yrs old to throw at the wife

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Does the car select normal mode after each restart or should it remain in the mode selected [/quote]


I think I read in the Manual that the last mode selected is kept active for several hours. Meaning that if you go shopping, drop the kids off etc - then you don't have to continually reselect a special mode. Longer than that - the default (road) mode is automatically selected.


When I say shopping & dropping the kids off etc, I actually mean a spot of windsurfing, snowboarding, basejumping etc etc

jimmy wrote:

When I say shopping & dropping the kids off .............

I though you meant having a S t  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

npinks wrote:

On my way to work today in a 1cm of snow

1 cm? hmmmm

Weather forecast for the week-end here is between 40 to 70 (some say 95) cm of snow. and I wont get my FL2 before next week!

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VIKING wrote:

npinks wrote:

On my way to work today in a 1cm of snow

1 cm? hmmmm

Weather forecast for the week-end here is between 40 to 70 (some say 95) cm of snow. and I wont get my FL2 before next week!

Think of all the fun I am missing!

I'm heading to France and the snow reports 197cm could i put my FL2 in my snowboard bag?  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

I'm heading to France and the snow reports 197cm could i put my FL2 in my snowboard bag? [/quote]


Which resort ?

chamonix, France for 5 days of drinking and snowboarding

Latest report is

Lower slopes: 20cm (1035m)
Upper slopes: 197cm (3842m)

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Did anyone else notice the mpg drop when using the snow TR program?

Hopefully I'll be taking the FL2 up to Glenshee ( ) on Sat/Sun for a slide about on the board. just need the roads to open.
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joe1978 wrote:

Did anyone else notice the mpg drop when using the snow TR program?

When i have put the car into snow it increased my mpg

This was in the summer when towing my caravan in was on the motorway doing a steady 65mph, not a problem but i was getting 18mpg . On my old car i had to lock the car in to 4x4, so my thinkng was snow gravel setting would do this. i re reset the mpg after this and i was getting 25mpg.

So i left it on, had the garage inspect the car after my hols and they found no faults, and could understand why, bar blaming me and the caravan.

They said the TR setting remapped the accelerator pedel and reduced the responsivness.

PS. this was shown to me in the LRE, set the rev's to 2500 switch the TR setting and keeping the foot in exact position the rev's alter Bit of knowledge there for the next pub quiz  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

npinks wrote:

chamonix, France for 5 days of drinking and snowboarding

Latest report is

Lower slopes: 20cm (1035m)
Upper slopes: 197cm (3842m)

I Can't wait, it feels like am waiting for christmas all over again

Lucky b*****d !!

Going to Val d'Isere & Livigno soon. Val is upper 122cm and lower 87cm, at the moment.

Chamonix lower at 20cm is a bit thin - but maybe you never make it down that far after all the drinking

npinks wrote:

chamonix, France for 5 days of drinking and snowboarding

Latest report is

Lower slopes: 20cm (1035m)
Upper slopes: 197cm (3842m)

I Can't wait, it feels like am waiting for christmas all over again