Stuck
 

I like hearing winter stories of people getting stuck and how they got their cars out.

Those of you with MB's in the winter climates.........share your stories if it happened?!?:)

It was snowing in Geneva, there was maybe one inch of snow on the ground. I went to a friend's place, I had no snow tires but the car was doing okay, no sweat...Anyways, I have dinner with my friends, and when the time came for me to leave, I get in the car, and there was this very slight incline, maybe 2 percent...well my car was just skidding in place and not advancing.....I would let go of the brake as gently as possible, but just the torque from the car idling was enough to break traction...anyways, I never made it up the incline, so I just reversed the car back to my friends place, and borrowed his old VW Golf, it got me home...

Anyways, Snow + ASR + automatic transmission sucks...

To avoid getting stuck, there is only one answer: GOOD snow tires!
But your question was how to get out WHEN stuck in the snow.

I have been stuck several times in various cars. But never in the Benz. Not because it's a great car in the snow, but because it's not!
I'm far more careful driving the Benz since i can imagine how hard it will be to get a car with auto-tranny free from the snow.

Should it happen anyway, then i have a carpet in the trunk i can place in front of the rear wheels to grip on..

Freestyler

It's been a long time since I've been stuck in the snow. I believe a lot of it has to do with experience. I've reached an age where I've learned to avoid these situations. If it's bad, I just don't venture out and hunker down until it's safe to drive. Living in a densely populated area, whenever it snows the streets are usually plowed within 24 hours.

It's not a winter story, but it IS one hell of a stuck story..... Goes like this:

I'm out mowing with my tractor spring before last. It had rained quite a bit, and the ground was soft. Knowing this, I was trying to tread as lightly as possible. I still managed to sink the tractor up to its axle, and the ground was too soft to use a jack so I could throw bricks or something under the tires to get out. Not to be deterred, I grab my now departed Suzuki Samurai and drive it to the area where I sank the tractor. I find what feels like a pretty good piece of ground and tie the two together to pull out the tractor. The Samurai breaks through and sinks to its axles so fast, that I cannot get off of the throttle fast enough. :( My friend comes over with his Dodge 4x4 truck and some 200 feet worth of cables, chains, and straps. We combine all of this stuff and tie this little redneck looking mess between the truck and Samurai. Well, his truck hits another soft spot and goes down immediately up to ITS axles!!

We then untie the two 4x4's and pull out my truck. By this time, the whole mess is stretched out sufficiently to have me on my hard packed driveway roadbed with my 3/4 ton truck. We hook the two trucks together and I try to pull him out of his hole. The cable snaps and puts a notable dent in the tailgate of the truck. :mad:

Having lost the cable, there's no longer enough length to keep me on comfortable ground, and we end up calling out a wrecker to pull out the two trucks and the tractor. :(

Needless to say, I gave up on mowing that part of the yard, and had to wait a MONTH for it to dry up enough to go back and mow.

holy cow.........interesting story:)

Thanks, DP. With that story, you killed any chance of my stories being worth anything :D

It isn't about an MB, it's about my cousin insisting on taking his 911 to Tahoe in winter. And the punchline was waiting over two hours for AAA to come during a storm when we got locked out with the engine running.

Also have one about being walled in by a recent street plowing. Taller than the car type of wall. A friend with a tow truck happened by and he yanked my 77 Impala through the mound without regard for anything. College is fun with an Impala.

Scariest was merging on I-87 in Albany, NY. I got on the freeway in a Toyota Starlet (think Toyota version of a Chevette) and sailed across 3 lanes into a snow bank in the center divide. There was just no overcoming the merge angle. I don't know how I made it across without getting hit. A couple of guys stopped, got me free and told me to beat it before the cops came by. Must have been a busy day for whomever looks after me. But so's everyday I open my tool box.

Sixto
95 S420
91 300SE
87 300SDL
83 300SD

We had heavy snow in Austria and souther Germany last winter. Simone parked the car at the train station and took the train.

Coming back from work the car was totally snowed in. So she let it sit there for the rest of the week.

On Friday night I had to dig it out. Took us about half an hour. Problem was, that the snow around the car was solid ice and the car was not able to climb the one inch step. So we had to dig a trench behind the rearwheels for about three feet each side into the ice.
Took us another half an hour.

Well, finally we got her running again..

http://www.ikonengold.de/eberhard/schnee1.jpg

Next day we drove through the snow with snow tires withour major problems.

http://www.ikonengold.de/eberhard/schnee4.jpg

For some stretches I did put on the snow chains. But no chance at this road. Even the snow plow hadn't made it here

http://www.ikonengold.de/eberhard/schnee2.jpg

The snow was well above the roof of the car

http://www.ikonengold.de/eberhard/schnee3.jpg

Kind regards
Eberhard

wow interesting pics.......I have taken the w126 with its amazing snow tires through similar roads you have Ebelhard.

Snowtires doesn't look so bad either, if you put them on AMG replicas :D

Last winter I was coming down a steep narrow one way street that was covered with ice. That was my first mistake. My "friend" in the passenger seat decided it would be funny to pull the e brake. My rear tires locked up and I quickly slid side ways. The street was the perfect width and my car became wedged with the rear tires on one curb and the fronts on the other. My Camry was the perfect length! I had to wait 2 hours for a tow truck in 20 degree weather. I have learned two things from this, one if my friend ever touches the e brake again I will cut off his arm. 2 icey hills are not for driveing down.

The 126 only got stuck with all season tires and it did very easily. Once at my cottage I tried to get in out unplowed road and she went until the road got to a spot where there was no downhill incline and it got stuck.

I knew I shouldnt have gone but it was going in until that spot so waited for the plow.

Buffalo in '77
 

Folks,

I was working for my future father in law (fil) in his landscaping / snowplow business while going to college. The "blizzard of 77" hits Buffalo, 12" of snow on the ground, 12" more shows up, and 40+mph winds for 36 hours. HUGE drifts all over. I think about 10 people were stuck on a sunken freeway and froze to death that night. I was living at home but stuck at a local dorm helping a friend rebuild a carb. So I get out after a day and we start plowing the fil's 70+ customers on his snowplow route (he had a '73 chevy pick-up with front and rear plows).

So we are clearing a parking lot near an empty field. If there were no obstructions, the ground was clear. If there was any obstruction, it drifted over it. When I was in the dorm with my friend it drifted up to the 2nd of the 3 story building. In this parking lot there is a large "lump". We were going to leave it there and worry about it later. Just then the owner of the lump shows up and says "I left my car there, can you get it out?". We carefully plow all around it and shovel off the roof and around the doors. He gets in a turns the key.... click ... click... click... We shovel off the hood and open it. The snow had perfectly filled the entire engine compartment with packed snow. You could see the imprint of the underside of the hood in the snow. The engine could not turn over. We dug out the fan and belts and it finally started.

I'm pretty glad to live in NC now.

Chuck

Ya Buffalo is an hr and 1/2 south of me and due to the lake effect snow...they get pounded.....meanwhile on the other side of the lake here its like summer.:D

I was near there then and heard another "lump in the parking lot" story. Just after the storm they were digging out the snow and needing a place to put it. A dump truck driver with a load of snow pulls into a parking lot to dump it. He sees a lump and thinks that's where the previous dump truck driver started dumping the snow and continues from there. Well, it turned out to be a car, an English one I think, and come spring when they finally got to it was sitting on its frame from the weight of the snow and rusted out from the salt.

The other damage I heard of was snowmobile ski marks on the roofs of cars