Havnt been able to drive out of home for 4 days now... Private road to the main road is like a sheet of glass.. and it drops off straight about 7 inchs either side on to grass so if you get any sideways movement and your more than stuck...
Went out on Friday to the shop, doing about 5mph on a road that hadnt had any attention but had trucks that use it as a short cut, saw a truck was slowing about 30 meters ahead as there was another parked in the middle of the road ahead, applied the brakes and NOTHING! was on ice... released the brakes, applied again, nothing... and I was on a slight decline,,, could have chosen something smaller to run into the back of..
Biggest issue was that the trucks that use the road when they slow for a railway bridge their braking compacts the snow and forms patches of ice..
Lucky is was my g/f's new swedish barge.. not the zed! She is still going on about it 4 days later!!