Ice heads up

[the squiggle]

Had the steering jam on me going round a roundabout yesterday afternoon.

Ice had built up in the wheel arch cavity and prevented the wheel coming back to the straight ahead position. Used the jack handle to clear it and carry on but it had compacted so much it was like breaking concrete with a plastic teaspoon. Noticed the coil rings on the struts had frozen solid as well.

Morale of the story, give the wheel arch area a good checking over prior to heading out into the arctic weather

[graeme_mcfarlane]

lol, you remember that happened with me when we were playing in that snowy car park in hillington a few years ago, had to dig the snow out the arch with the pointy bit of an umbrella

was a bit disconcerting not being able to move the steering

[Midnight21]

Had the steering jam on me going round a roundabout yesterday afternoon.

Ice had built up in the wheel arch cavity and prevented the wheel coming back to the straight ahead position. Used the jack handle to clear it and carry on but it had compacted so much it was like breaking concrete with a plastic teaspoon. Noticed the coil rings on the struts had frozen solid as well.

Morale of the story, give the wheel arch area a good checking over prior to heading out into the arctic weather

I have to clear it every day or cant get out the drive, used a large wooden spoon lol...but Sox ate it!!! Found a large poker now though

Edited December 8, 2010 by Midnight21

[thefastone]

Aye, I found that I had to clear this too, although mostly on the back wheels.... wasn't great...

[Andy GB270]

Thanks for this, I cleared mine after reading this earlier on and I'm glad I did having read some of the replies here. Stay safe, Andy