Goodness after all the wind in the last few weeks, followed by the rain and floods over last weekend it blinking' snowed today... What a weird weather February we are having.

Anyway, it would be rude not to go and find some snow, so at lunch I jumped in Phoebe with the dogs and went in search. It was purely scientific you understand. This is the first snow since fitting a new set of Vredestein Quatracs tyres on the faithful Freelander.

Has the Wayfarer ever looked so dramatic? Goodness Wales is a stunning country.



I did not go all the way to the top for two reasons. The first is I was solo driving and the second is the final ascent was a dusting of snow on top of black ice all the way and then obviously back down again. Could I have got to the top? Yes I have little doubt of that, but I did not need to. So the dogs and I got a fab walk through the snow and frigid wind to the top. It was bitter up there. The thermometer in Phoebe read -3degC and the wind was somewhere around 20mph. Enough to lift lain snow and whip it in your face. So wind chill felt somewhere close to -10 degC I would think. Frigid...

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Great pics - nice winter scenery and super looking motor - thanks for sharing! Are the tyres regular Quatrac or Quatrac Pro just out of interest?

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Great pics - nice winter scenery and super looking motor - thanks for sharing! Are the tyres regular Quatrac or Quatrac Pro just out of interest?

Hello. Thanks, it was a lovely jaunt and apologies to one and all, Phoebe is filthy at the moment, but around these parts it is impossible to keep cars clean during winter. I have promised her a darned good pampering in a month or so

So these are the Vredestein Quatrac Pro tyres, not the straight Quatrac that have a uni-directional tread pattern. Really impressed with them. They have been truly excellent on road and coped brilliantly with the exceptional amount of water on the roads. We will see how they last and behave year around, but right now I am over the moon with them.

Great pics! I too got to use snow mode for the first time today
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Well that certainly looks like "I see your North Wales snow" and raise you "proper Scottish snow"

I am constantly impressed by the Freelander 2, truly an excellent all round vehicle.

Haha, not often something to be proud of. But yep, it is very very capable in the snow!

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Great Pictures.

I have just been watching the TV show about the 3 month Big Freeze in 1962/63.

I wish that I had my Freelander then as I had to manage (quite well) with my Ford 100E Popular, using a couple of knobbly tyres, and 2 bags of sand in the boot.

So equipped I travelled the 270miles each way from Darlington to Bristol most weekends, before the luxury of Motorways.

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So these are the Vredestein Quatrac Pro tyres, not the straight Quatrac that have a uni-directional tread pattern. Really impressed with them. They have been truly excellent on road and coped brilliantly with the exceptional amount of water on the roads. We will see how they last and behave year around, but right now I am over the moon with them.

Good to know - thanks for that! I've been doing a bit of all-season tyre research recently and this one doesn't seem to do very well in the 'expert tests' but the owner reports are very positive indeed - which I would say means a lot more!