How's Your Aygo Doing On Icy Road?

[Miafey]

I had my AWD Subaru for over 2 years and never had a single icy day to test the AWD (was away early this year when it snowed). Now I traded in the Subaru for an Aygo Blue and having all this....

Up to now my Aygo is doing extremely well on the icy road, never had a slip or slide. Tested the brake several times when going downhill and it worked fine. This is the first time I drive in this kind of weather condition but I read about stories of other people complaining lost of control over their own cars. I don't know what will a AWD car do under similar condition but I'm quite happy with my Aygo's performance :)

How's your Aygo doing over these days? Are you having difficult time or just driving as normal?

btw: I've finished my very first tank and only achieved 30 MPG :( have to work this out!

[toyboata]

In regards to driving on ice...the aygo seems to hold its own very well..

I live on a "posh" estate, which whenever it snows becomes an ice rink...and with previous cars it was easy peasy to loose grip...or play with the handbrake turns...the aygo, not so easy to do for some reason lol!

MPG will be lower with the cold weather, but i would still expect better mpg than 30?

Best way calculate it is:

fill petrol tank to the brim.

Reset your milage counter (trip)

Drive till empty.

Refill to brim.

then its Amount of litres put in devided into 4.55. then take how many miles you've done and devide that into the 1st answer.

I'm getting around 49mpg...sometimes 51mpg and thats just driving it how i want.

[Miafey]

In regards to driving on ice...the aygo seems to hold its own very well..

I live on a "posh" estate, which whenever it snows becomes an ice rink...and with previous cars it was easy peasy to loose grip...or play with the handbrake turns...the aygo, not so easy to do for some reason lol!

MPG will be lower with the cold weather, but i would still expect better mpg than 30?

Best way calculate it is:

fill petrol tank to the brim.

Reset your milage counter (trip)

Drive till empty.

Refill to brim.

then its Amount of litres put in devided into 4.55. then take how many miles you've done and devide that into the 1st answer.

I'm getting around 49mpg...sometimes 51mpg and thats just driving it how i want.

Cool. So it does do well! Now I'm not missing my AWD subaru ^_^

Well I'm hoping it's because my Blue is brand new. It might take some time to tune to it. Otherwise 30MPG is way too low to drive a 998cc car - and I'm only driving normally :(

[toyboata]

I have had my aygo from brand new (got it 1st sep)...and i think if the weather had been warm...then i would have seen a small increase in mpg as i have been driving...however this cold weather has really knocked the figures down.

I filled up last night and calculated my mpg at 48mpg...getting worse lol!

thats with lights & wipers on a lot...radio & heaters on ALL the time. driving with a semi-heavy right foot.

I found that tyre pressures seem to effect the aygo way more than what it did my other cars.

So i try to maintain mine at 33psi. I can tell the difference when theres 30psi in, and 33psi and it seems to impact the mpg figures too.

[kevin65]

Been out on the local icy roads without any problems so far. There was a Ford Focus having problems on a slight incline on the side road where I live, but I didn't have any problems with it. Maybe the quality of tyres is a big factor?

[ihpj]

Been out on the local icy roads without any problems so far. There was a Ford Focus having problems on a slight incline on the side road where I live, but I didn't have any problems with it. Maybe the quality of tyres is a big factor?

More to do with it having bigger wheels and summer tyres methinks. FWD vehicles with narrow tyres tend to do better [comparatively speaking] in these conditions.

[toyboata]

I find it a bit odd that thinner tyres give better traction on ice...

Grip = friction...yes?

Friction is increased by increasing the size of the tyre...

Therefore a thicker tyre = more friction = more grip?

So how come a thinner tyre does betterr?

[Jan van de Wouw]

Thinner tyres have less surface touching the road, thus the pressure per square inch is higher,

allowing the rubber to "cut" through the sow and water in a better way then wider tyres do.

Compare it to Ice Skates vs. Ski's: the skates have less surface, so they give you more control

on Ice, but on LOOSE surfaces you need surface to get ANY grip, hence Ski's are wider...

[toyboata]

...I see, i get it now! thanks! :)

[kevin65]

To put the icing on the icy weather cake, it decided to rain on top of the ice here this morning. Returning the 1.5 miles home from the local village to the house in the wifes Rav 4 was very slow and nerve wracking even with the 4wd engaged, absolutely NO grip in places(of course I let her do the driving, well it is her car afterall...). Might go out in the Aygo tomorrow depending on conditions.

[toyboata]

its rained here, the roads are like a skating rink!