Be very careful out there today Rain has started to fall on frozen surfaces and is very icey just about everywhere, many roads and motorways are littered with accidents. Just because we might have 4x4's we are not exempt from having an accident. Other drivers make mistakes too. So just be careful. Have a safe journey.

Its very dull wet and misty down here [bedford] amazing how many people driving this morning on side lights  zx12r
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Thats what it looked like up here, but on the ground it was sheet ice

Blimey thats tricky and will catch people out ,came to work on the GS this morning because its not frozen for once up to lancaster uni first thing in morning to pick up my son so hope its not to bad then . zx12r
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You will be fine tomorrow, temprerature is set to rise later today and get quite mild.

yes just looked at met office heavy rain later but milder and sun maybe for tom zx12r
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Wise words, Ady- Just come back from the school run and it's treacherous in north Leeds.

Saw a 3 series wrapped round a tree on the A61, and Q5 on its side (!!!) having skidded off the school car park access road, over a kerb and down some banking !!!!

It's sheet black ice, but the GGS setting did the businesss  FF 4.4 V8 Soooo looking forward to this bad boy
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I had to put the hill descent mode on to get down my driveway this morning it was sheet ice!

handled surprisingly well on 22" wheels it has to be said, think I'm going to hold off putting some winter tyres on for now

Jordan

Ive done lots of off roading in the defender but none in the sport or an auto for that matter ,what is the best setting for say long icy hill decent at slow speed or driving in snow .
I know it will be in the manual somewhere but its always good to here from peoples exsperiences. zx12r
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For a long icy descent, I'd have thought Grass/Snow mode (first off road setting), low range 1st or 2nd gear, HDC on (it should come on automatically with the G/S off road mode) 2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
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RRSTDV8 wrote:

For a long icy descent, I'd have thought Grass/Snow mode (first off road setting), low range 1st or 2nd gear, HDC on (it should come on automatically with the G/S off road mode)

Thanks for that ,there is a really nasty hill on the way home that gets alot of traffic stop starting so lots of slidding cars wonder if the landrover driving exsperience day is worth doing to learn all the sports setting zx12r
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Definately

Note: Low range 3rd is roughly equivalent to high range 1st. So you can see how slow low range 1st is. 2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
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RRSTDV8 wrote:

Note: Low range 3rd is roughly equivalent to high range 1st. So you can see how slow low range 1st is.

cheers great to talk to folk instead of trawling through a book  zx12r
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range17 wrote:

Blimey thats tricky and will catch people out ,came to work on the GS this morning because its not frozen for once up to lancaster uni first thing in morning to pick up my son so hope its not to bad then .

Your brave,my GS stay in the garage until spring now as I dont want to be coming off and damaging something or myself  10 TDV8 Santorini