Motoring Discussion > Carpet for snow traction	Legal Questions
Thread Author: Skoda	Replies: 16

Thu 23 Dec 10 13:19   Carpet for snow traction - Skoda

Pile side up towards the wheels or pile side down towards the snow? Wool side against ice is obvious. Against snow though? I'm thinking the backing side is rougher = more traction? ... Neighbour tossed out a living room sized carpet. I took a cheeky pill and chapped the door. Half an hour later he was out cutting 2 10 ft strips off the remains and putting them in his boot too :-) Rolled up tightly, into seperate bin bags then hidden under the false floor along with all my other sins. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 23 Dec 10 13:25   Carpet for snow traction - Dog

>>along with all my other sins.<< 3 hail Mary's and 4 our Father's :) Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 23 Dec 10 13:29   Carpet for snow traction - Iffy

...Wool side against ice is obvious. Against snow though? I'm thinking the backing side is rougher = more traction?... My guess is it will work equally well. Either side under the wheels will be much, much, better than nothing at all. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 23 Dec 10 14:35   Carpet for snow traction - Pat

Make sure the pattern is right way round. Pat Reply to this message | Report message       2

Thu 23 Dec 10 15:37   Carpet for snow traction - Zero

>> Make sure the pattern is right way round. >> >> Pat make sure the colour doesn't clash with your eyes. Reply to this message | Report message       1

Thu 23 Dec 10 14:36   Carpet for snow traction - Netsur

Certainly. Got a friend off a sloping ice slope in January using carpet. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 23 Dec 10 15:02   Carpet for snow traction - Tooslow

Did it yesterday using old rubber car mats. Worked a treat. John Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 23 Dec 10 15:34   Carpet for snow traction - L'escargot

Make sure it doesn't stick to the tyre and wind itself round. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 23 Dec 10 15:56   Carpet for snow traction - Netsur

Or press the accelerator too much and see the carpet shooting rearwards at 40mph. Don't stand behind the car when using the carpet - you could get a nasty injury. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 23 Dec 10 16:25   Carpet for snow traction - Zero

Indeed, carpet burns. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 23 Dec 10 16:32   Carpet for snow traction - Robin O'Reliant

Carpet is just soooo 20th century. Couldn't one take a length of laminate flooring instead? Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 23 Dec 10 16:35   Carpet for snow traction - Boxsterboy

Wool side against snow - this is the theory behind snow-socks, after all. Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 26 Dec 10 15:37   Carpet for snow traction - R.P.

You're all wrong ! Tesco Jute bags do the trick ! Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 26 Dec 10 16:01   Carpet for snow traction - Armel Coussine

Doesn't seem to matter which way round the carpet is on ice or polished packed snow. Even on a slope you only need it for a foot or two to get rolling at very low throttle opening in bottom gear. After that the car will manage provided you aren't jerky or violent with the control inputs. Delivery chap got his sprinter stuck reversing into a muddy wood to turn round here the other day. Rear wheels digging themselves deeper and deeper with clouds of smoke. The driver wasn't all that bright. Some removal men helped by giving him a shove eventually. Then he helped them to get a really ridiculously heavy Edwardian extendable damn great oak dining table out of a container. Between them they managed to break one of the end, therefore main, leaves of the top. I don't much like that table. It's too big for all but the biggest rooms in any kind of ordinary house, it isn't all that handsome being Edwardian, therefore a bit boardroomish, and it weighs getting on for half a ton. No ordinary floor can survive its presence unscarred. You would need granite cobbles, and it would probably chip them. But my wife and her sister are sentimentally attached to the damn thing. Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 26 Dec 10 16:07   Carpet for snow traction - R.P.

Logs potentially AC Reply to this message | Report message

Sun 26 Dec 10 16:17   Carpet for snow traction - Armel Coussine

Wife and sister 'murdered pensioner in frenzied axe attack after alleged table-dissing incident' (Reuter, AP, AFP, Mainichi Press Agency, Hsinhua, etc.) Reply to this message | Report message       5

Mon 27 Dec 10 17:09   Carpet for snow traction - IJWS14

Don't forget to tie it to the towing eye with a piece of string so you don't have to stop immediately to pick it up ;-) Reply to this message | Report message