Lightweight "snow chains" please

Wig

I'm looking for some lightweight "chains", which are not going to be chains at all, thinking of rubber/plastic bars interlinked with webbing straps to go on a tyre like chains would - I have seen these before we used to have a set but now my brother has them I think- where to buy from?

Alternatively I'm thinking the same sort of design but just using nylon strapping without the bars, it would still work I reckon for snow and ice.

I know the other thread showed snow socks, but TBH I was not impressed.

sebdangerfield

There's an Italian company called wiessenfels (I know it sounds German!) who make a system called klack & Go quatro which uses plastic spikes instead of chains. It can also be used on many cars which can't use chains, I used them on my old RS4 and they were fantastic. Also satisfy the laws in many parts of the alps as they are technically a chain instead of the sock version they make.

You can get them from here;

http://www.snowchains.co.uk/main/index_car_chains.htm

Wig

Interesting design - seems to be made of metal to me, and ouch, the price £200.

I was hoping for a simple design very simple and cheap. I might have to make my own and sell them to the dragons den.

Wig

Here's another sock design. made me think the the design can be simplified further to be just a strip of "sock" which the 2 ends are fastened together using velcro. I am only thinking of temporary use to get you out of trouble and onto a gritted main road.

robd831

If you are buying snow chains or now socks..........

PRACTICE PUTTING THEM ON BEFORE IT SNOWS

I once got stuck once in the Pyrenees and I ended up taking the wheels off a hire car in -15 snow blizzards with no feeling in my hands :mad::mad: to get the bu66ers on , not funny but OH thought it v funny.:rotfl:

I can now put chains on in under five minutes for both wheels, there is a nack and lay them out properly first.:T

Please practice in the warm and not when you need them most !!!