When I owned my Seat Toledo, I can distinctly recall being caught out in the snow after finishing work one Monday morning, in December 2010.
After I'd watched the snow fall heavily overnight, I left my place of work as approximately three inches lay upon the ground.
Moreover, the gritting trucks that had thundered up and down, past my place of work throughout the night, had done little in terms of shovelling the snow to the side, so much so,a bus that was stuck at the bus stop, a hundred yards away, as I exited the gate even made the front page of my local daily newspaper that same evening.
Enough of doing my best to set the scene.
Around a mile away from my place of work, I'd climbeda hill to junction, where I proceeded to turn left, as I prepared to climb up another hill.
My Seat Toledo, with its ESP engaged didn't turn left. Instead, it proceeded straight ahead with its wheels turned, as a driver of a Citroen C3 descended their way down the hill towards the junction.
Thankfully, I managed to regain control of my Seat, thus avoiding a collision.
After avoiding a collision, I proceeded to struggle up the second hill as the wheels slipped and spun, whilst the ESP light flashedfrantically upon the instrument panel.
Fortunately, I remembered that the owners' manual of the Audi A4, I'd previously owned, recommended that the ESP should be disabled when driving in snow.
After taking the decision to disable the ESP, via the button on the centre console, the wheels of my Toledo suddenly discovered the desired traction to power itself up the second hill and out of danger.
Edited by: Miserable Git
