Toujours pr�t a aider un anglo � partir…
All right, all right…
He should get some traction aids ( http://www.tractionaids.com/ ). I have some handy ones that collapse altogether. It really works great. Hard to get stuck with that. A must have with a battery pack.
Maybe, but think about all the nice encounters he would miss if he got tractionaids. ;-)
Cool device. If it happens more often I’ll consider it. Must make sure not to install them upside-down.
It’s actually the first time in three winters here that I’ve had that much trouble getting out. I was surprised because they are brand new winter tires and I have a sandbag in the trunk. The next car will definitely not be a big clunky rwd sedan.
Look at it, and instinctively you won’t make a mistake. it seems really scary on tires!
I had that many years on small/medium 2fwd, never got stuck in snow with it, even in the worst snowbanks. But of course, it takes shoveling in the 1st place too.
With the RWD, you must have them: you can’t turn the wheels left and right for more traction as with a FWD, so where you are stuck, you are stuck…
The city of Montreal is really a mess this year. It takes a lot more time to clean the streets. After the huge 40 cm snowstorm mid december, Sherbrooke street was still uncleaned one week after…
In my street (plateau), we used to have it cleaned in the first days, on 1 side.
Now, they clean both sides at once: that ‘s a mess for parking.
But then they tried something even worse: 2 days ago: they put the sign for the rigth side for the night.
Not cleaned in the morning.
But now they put signs on both side for the night.
This morning, they was a track of snow left on the rigth side. So they left the night sign for another night on the right side…
And regarding snow again, the walksides are as clean as it used too.
Same thing with the number of garbage bins…
Fuck! that’s the Plateau. We are supposed to be rich and densily populated. The taxes went up. Where does the cash go?
That’s my rant. I was supposed to write to the city about that today….
Then again, maybe Montreal’ers simply can’t pass up the chance to take their aggression out on something. If they had been destroying a mailbox with a baseball bat, people would likely have offered to help with that too. (lol)
Nah j’blague seulement, pis j’fait un peu la baveuse comme une bonne ex-pat. :)
You learn new things when you help push out a car. Case in point: Smart cars have rear traction. You get used to pushing cars a certain way, but that all flies out the window when faced with a different technology.
tractionaids are very cool to have. except when your car gets stuck and you can’t leave home to pick up your sweetie after his work, and realize that they’re not in the trunk, but rather somewhere in *his* garage and there is no way you can find them in the mess. he’s got no money to come home so you take the metro to get to him and give him a ticket so he can come home with you, all the while pretending that he’s never seen the tractionaids and that we don’t have them. as if my mother would have let me buy a car without giving me tractionaids. in montreal. in winter. as if. grrr. and he still hasn’t found them a week later…
Toujours pr�t a aider un anglo � partir…
All right, all right…
He should get some traction aids ( http://www.tractionaids.com/ ). I have some handy ones that collapse altogether. It really works great. Hard to get stuck with that. A must have with a battery pack.
Maybe, but think about all the nice encounters he would miss if he got tractionaids. ;-)
Cool device. If it happens more often I’ll consider it. Must make sure not to install them upside-down.
It’s actually the first time in three winters here that I’ve had that much trouble getting out. I was surprised because they are brand new winter tires and I have a sandbag in the trunk. The next car will definitely not be a big clunky rwd sedan.
Look at it, and instinctively you won’t make a mistake. it seems really scary on tires!
I had that many years on small/medium 2fwd, never got stuck in snow with it, even in the worst snowbanks. But of course, it takes shoveling in the 1st place too.
With the RWD, you must have them: you can’t turn the wheels left and right for more traction as with a FWD, so where you are stuck, you are stuck…
The city of Montreal is really a mess this year. It takes a lot more time to clean the streets. After the huge 40 cm snowstorm mid december, Sherbrooke street was still uncleaned one week after…
In my street (plateau), we used to have it cleaned in the first days, on 1 side.
Now, they clean both sides at once: that ‘s a mess for parking.
But then they tried something even worse: 2 days ago: they put the sign for the rigth side for the night.
Not cleaned in the morning.
But now they put signs on both side for the night.
This morning, they was a track of snow left on the rigth side. So they left the night sign for another night on the right side…
And regarding snow again, the walksides are as clean as it used too.
Same thing with the number of garbage bins…
Fuck! that’s the Plateau. We are supposed to be rich and densily populated. The taxes went up. Where does the cash go?
That’s my rant. I was supposed to write to the city about that today….
Then again, maybe Montreal’ers simply can’t pass up the chance to take their aggression out on something. If they had been destroying a mailbox with a baseball bat, people would likely have offered to help with that too. (lol)
Nah j’blague seulement, pis j’fait un peu la baveuse comme une bonne ex-pat. :)
You learn new things when you help push out a car. Case in point: Smart cars have rear traction. You get used to pushing cars a certain way, but that all flies out the window when faced with a different technology.
tractionaids are very cool to have. except when your car gets stuck and you can’t leave home to pick up your sweetie after his work, and realize that they’re not in the trunk, but rather somewhere in *his* garage and there is no way you can find them in the mess. he’s got no money to come home so you take the metro to get to him and give him a ticket so he can come home with you, all the while pretending that he’s never seen the tractionaids and that we don’t have them. as if my mother would have let me buy a car without giving me tractionaids. in montreal. in winter. as if. grrr. and he still hasn’t found them a week later…