do i need chains?
Originally Posted by rufxr
It is also important to have four MATCHING tires. You can harm the awd if your tires have varying circumferences.
I had the same dillema. I bought some Pzero Nero M/S these tires rock!!!! Great in the dry, rain and snow. Just remember AWD reacts differently. Slide and break you'll keep sliding, Check steering to center and a little gas and turn in the direction you want to go will save you. FInd an open parking lot and play around a bit it's quite an eye opener.
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Originally Posted by devilchrist
california requires chains for 2 wheel drive vehicles and large trucks over 6k lbs.
chains on awd do not apply.
chains on awd do not apply.
http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/roadinfo/chcontrl.htm
Originally Posted by CVC SECTION 27460
Any passenger vehicle or motortruck having an unladen weight
of 6,500 pounds or less and operated and equipped with four-wheel
drive and with snow-tread tires on all four drive wheels may be
operated upon any portion of a highway without tire traction devices,
notwithstanding the fact that the highway is signed for the
requirement of those devices and provided that tire traction devices
for at least one set of drive wheels are carried in or upon the
vehicle. The snow-tread tires shall meet the requirements specified
in Section 27459, and the vehicle shall not, when so operated, tow
another vehicle except as may be necessary to move a disabled vehicle
from the roadway.
of 6,500 pounds or less and operated and equipped with four-wheel
drive and with snow-tread tires on all four drive wheels may be
operated upon any portion of a highway without tire traction devices,
notwithstanding the fact that the highway is signed for the
requirement of those devices and provided that tire traction devices
for at least one set of drive wheels are carried in or upon the
vehicle. The snow-tread tires shall meet the requirements specified
in Section 27459, and the vehicle shall not, when so operated, tow
another vehicle except as may be necessary to move a disabled vehicle
from the roadway.
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I've never been asked by CalTrans to show chains, fwiw. Last January I pulled an Explorer out of a snow bank with my Nokian all-seasons...
Also, you risk damaging the center differential by running tires that don't match. Buy a set of four and rotate them every other oil change...
Also, you risk damaging the center differential by running tires that don't match. Buy a set of four and rotate them every other oil change...
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