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what a weekend had to travel from inverness to bridge of allan for a wedding reception for one of my best mates, so wanted to get there!
should have been a 2 hour trip each way!! 3.5 hours goin down on sat afternoon!!... just under 6 hours coming home today mental!

it's the first time i've driven the X in snow and was a bit concerned after hearing a few stories!!!

but can i just say what an awsome machine it is!!.. it's takin my love of this car to a new level!
not joking it's on standard wheels and tyres, the machine was just unstoppable total pleasure to drive.. was going places some other 4x4's were struggling!!
there was road closures every where just took to back roads side streets the works..

the most eerie moment was when we made it onto the A9 by a side road as it was closed at the dunblane roundabout!, travelling on the A9 no road to be seen, no cars to be seen, total whiteout was something else....

just relaxing now with a vino... some pics attached














what a day!!

Nice one fella and thanks for sharing the pics.It's surprizing how good these cars can be considering all the bad publicity/horror stories they get.

OMG pictures are great. It's so nice to hear how well it handled as it's always a worry. Hope you had a good time in the end and are enjoying your vino


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for sure bud cant imagine how good they would be with winter tyres!! my ones are close to the warning bars!!
at some points i was like "we aint getting through this!!"
but she was just awesome didn't miss a beat.. steady and easy no rash sharp movements and on we went!

[quote=""ITBarbie""]Hope you had a good time in the end and are enjoying your vino


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ya for sure enjoying the vino now!! was a bit worried at some points seeing that the wife is pregnant, but now looking back once we home safe was a superb day one i wont forget!!

and a plus once we got home the wife says how proud she was of me and how safe she felt made me feel good ;o)...ooops vino talkin LOL

We've only had about 1cm (so far), so ever so jealous of that amount of snow

It always looks great unless you have to drive in it. Well done you for braving it out there.

some of the views were amazing!!

on a side note was out on friday night and saw something a hadn't before lightning in a snow storm was wild..

suppose when you put it together it's been some weekend lol

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and a plus once we got home the wife says how proud she was of me and how safe she felt made me feel good ;o)...ooops vino talkin LOL [/quote]

As opposed to my wife calling me an ass ignoring me and hoging the leccy fire to boot (sorry see other thread bbrrrr its cold)

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and a plus once we got home the wife says how proud she was of me and how safe she felt made me feel good ;o)...ooops vino talkin LOL [/quote]

As opposed to my wife calling me an ass ignoring me and hoging the leccy fire to boot (sorry see other thread bbrrrr its cold) [/quote]

lol was just reading yours life would be borring if we did everything on time/as we should!!

you ever considered a wood burning stove all me mates at work are raving about them(not got one me self house too small)

Wow Millerman great pics Just got back from Northern Ireland and things were starting to get a little tricky to say the least, but nothing like your pics. Glad the 'X' looked after you.

Daren't show my lad this. Brought the whole family to Canada and promised him loads of snow in the winter. Had precisely 2 cm yesterday and it was gone by lunchtime.

Peter T

[quote=""petert""]Daren't show my lad this. Brought the whole family to Canada and promised him loads of snow in the winter. Had precisely 2 cm yesterday and it was gone by lunchtime.

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dont worry about it lol.... to much snow lol

[quote=""millerman1ac""]some of the views were amazing!!

on a side note was out on friday night and saw something a hadn't before lightning in a snow storm was wild..

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Heavy snow here this morning. Walked my wife to local school as cars stuck all over the place and could not get the X5 out. Thunder and lightening as we walked through village while it snowed like mad.

Drove home from work last night in heavy snow and X on 20" wheels had no problems

millerman1ac

1. What type of tyres are your running ?

2. Any shared experience moving off from stanstill uphill ?

That sure reminds me of earlier this year when we had the worst in the South. Sooo glad we don't have any at the moment.

Thanks for the pics though, I heard about the A9 on the radio again this morning that it was closed. Nothing like seeing it for real though.