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Gritting Lorries!!

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David Rose

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I was minding my own business tootling down the M6 last night and came up to a Gritter. It was one of those .. oh no what shall I do... can I justify an emergency stop in the outside lane!! :o

Anyway I closed my eyes and drove past hearing the pinging of grit, salt, et al peppering the front of the car.

A couple of sentences of expletives later and a few hundred yards further I thought no surely not!! :(
But yup there were the orange lights and gritter number 2!!

I tucked in behind a white van .. see they do have uses... and got peppered again!

More expletives later .. I thought Oh wellllll C'est la vie.

Its freezing today so I have yet to pluck up courage and go out with a bucket of water :oops:
I think I'm also trying to avoid looking at the front of the car!!! :evil:


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On our trip to OPC Chester on Sunday, we were very lucky- ish

4 gritters on the opposite carriageway, within a space of 2 minutes, non on our side and then people were wondering why we were down to 1 lane on the M53.

Hope your car is OK




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I'm just plucking up the courage to go look!! :(

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Previous poster said:
Quote: Originally posted by nicola on 17 March 2006

be brave.....
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Phewwwwww.... can't see any marks!! I was terribly brave too! :)

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Previous poster said:
Quote: Originally posted by David Rose on 17 March 2006

Previous poster said:
Quote: Originally posted by nicola on 17 March 2006

be brave.....
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Phewwwwww.... can't see any marks!! I was terribly brave too! :)
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Glad to hear no permanent damage - the first day I picked up my Z had to go past two gritters on the M40 - I used half the hard shoulder to try and avoid damage!

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I reckon the gritters sounds worse than they actually are- assuming you are not passing the gritter at 130mph, the salt crystals are going at a very similar speed to you...

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Quote: Originally posted by Robertb on 20 March 2006

I reckon the gritters sounds worse than they actually are- assuming you are not passing the gritter at 130mph, the salt crystals are going at a very similar speed to you...
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It sounds like you are being pebble-dashed though!

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Previous poster said:
Quote: Originally posted by Robertb on 20 March 2006

I reckon the gritters sounds worse than they actually are- assuming you are not passing the gritter at 130mph, the salt crystals are going at a very similar speed to you...
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Unfortunately, those that bounce off the front are doing the same speed as you but in the opposite direction, therefore hitting you at twice your speed.

Even those down the side are scraping down your paintwork at your speed, yuk!


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Previous poster said:
Quote: Originally posted by David Rose on 17 March 2006

I was minding my own business tootling down the M6 last night and came up to a Gritter. It was one of those .. oh no what shall I do... can I justify an emergency stop in the outside lane!! :o

Anyway I closed my eyes and drove past hearing the pinging of grit, salt, et al peppering the front of the car.

A couple of sentences of expletives later and a few hundred yards further I thought no surely not!! :(
But yup there were the orange lights and gritter number 2!!

I tucked in behind a white van .. see they do have uses... and got peppered again!

More expletives later .. I thought Oh wellllll C'est la vie.

Its freezing today so I have yet to pluck up courage and go out with a bucket of water :oops:
I think I'm also trying to avoid looking at the front of the car!!! :evil:




OMG not ANOTHER moaning thread from the 911 Happy Crew :roll:

So what are we whinging about now?!

Gritters. LOL. You make it sound like they're firing golf ball sized projectiles at you. Its a gritter peeps, it sprays tiny grit particles over the road to stop you from dying in a horrendous ice smash, every car gets hit by gritters, its not a problem for most people tbh, you should be much more worried about street urchins etching their intials onto your car.

Why are we moaning again?

To be fair, it is amusing the way this man makes the gritter out to be a huge monster while he's the innocent victim targeted by this beast - he's like a 911 Frank Spencer. Slapstick from David Rose :D
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Dave are you going to stand for that!

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Quote: Originally posted by So Poo on 20 March 2006

Dave are you going to stand for that!


Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhh Betty, i've got all salt in my Beret :D :D
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