be careful when buying the chains, they can quite easily damage your rims (with the way they self tighten etc). i would invest in some cheap rims and put the chains on them if i were you...

yer but the hassel is worth it. watch out if your car is low too, because if there is not much clearance between your rims and your guards the chains will hit. but unless we get a really good season, you probably wont even have to use chains

I have been to the snow heaps with my lowered GTB.

I have never had to fit chains.

I always just hire them, easy and cheaper.

I have never had to fit them!

So I don't know.

lol I'm supprised they didn't charge your ccard for not returning them

hurm... I might have to look around and see what I can find with "wheel savers"

if I find something I'll let you guys know about it

http://www.ozliberty.com/forums/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=4781


getting intrest in the snow cruise

there is some guy on here that post once every 5 months with the most indepth info about nothingness.. I know him as "Mr RTA", cant remember his name though.. but soon enough he will write something here.

In NSW you don't need to carry chains on AWD or 4WD vehicles.

The only reason that you actually need them is for when there is ice on the road. Snow actually provides traction - watch the rally of sweden sometime - they avoid the first cars tracks and hit the snow. Usually its because snow has fallen on top of the ice. so the exposed sections of track provide less traction than the snow.

Once a few cars have broken the ice that is frozen to the road, I reckon even a 2wd vehicle may not need chains.

The instructions in the handbook are pretty good, except they make a comment that you should try to avoid putting chains on the car in the first place! You can do so much damage to the car its ridiculous - the rotors, the pads, the wheels, the springs, the shocks.....let alone the bodywork!

Don't forget that you only need a pair of chains as they are only required on one axle.

To tell you the truth.....come to NSW and forget the chains.

As for NZ, if you look at the snow reports they tell you whether AWD need chains. Buses sometime required to fit DOUBLE chains.

Chains are definitely not required for AWD in NSW even if you are there overnight in NSW :scout:

Reading up on it they seem more concerned that you put the right amount of anti-freeze in the engine. The random chain inspections only seem to occur when you actually need them. Link to RTA below.

I discovered the importance of chains one year when we actually needed them when I also discovered (after nearly losing a finger) that a early 90's tarago is actually rear wheel drive.....who would've thought? :Dntknw:

http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/snowdriving.html

Ratos wrote:

I discovered the importance of chains one year when we actually needed them when I also discovered (after nearly losing a finger) that a early 90's tarago is actually rear wheel drive.....who would've thought? :Dntknw:

ive just come back from the snow (mount hotham) as today was a joke (hardly any lifts open.. it was like a blizzard)... the road was icy with a layer of snow on top... i still did not need to fit chains on!..
The lib handled great.. did not slip once... not up or down the mountain.... xenons in snow are decent.. but i wish i had some yellow fog lights for the conditions we encountered...


As for chains... if i were to buy some... id be getting diamond pattern chains.....
i too have never needed to fit them!.