SC1026 Radial Chain Cable Traction Tire Chain, Silver, Set of 2

I live in an area that doesn't get too much snow, but occasionally there can be 8 or 10 inches overnight. Every year my wife has a flight to catch on the morning after the night when it all comes down. I don't know how she does it, but she gets it right every time. So, I need to get her to the airport in my old electric car (Kia Soul EV). Obviously EVs are really bad in winter conditions; they are heavy, and the low-friction tires are even worse than regular summer tires. With these chains I can make the trip to the airport (and to stores, work, etc.) and feel reasonably safe. Without them I wouldn't stand a chance.Installation is easy and quick if you know what you're doing. Instructions are not great, but OK. Just make sure to practice before you actually need them! They seem to be very durable, too. While I use them only a couple of times per winter, this is the fourth winter that my first set is holding up. I got a back-up set to avoid getting stranded somewhere, but so far, I've only been using the first set. Oh, yes, they come in a handy plastic box that stores well in the trunk.

These chains were so easy to install, and my car handled perfect up snowy mountain roads with them. I remember an old set being way harder to install, with a pair of work gloves I had these on in a few minutes and no need to roll the car or anything. Highly recommended.

I bought these chains in preparation for my trip to Lake Tahoe. It snowed all week prior and even during our stay there, and the chains worked just fine on my Nissan Altima.My only complaint is that the chains were hard to get tight. I'll admit this is my first time putting chains on my car. I did a trial run before my trip and put them on in a parking lot in front of my apartment. The concept seemed simple enough and indeed it was easy to put them off and take them off according to the video and paper instructions. Once I was on the mountain and pulled over in the chain control area, I did exactly the same thing as I had practiced. Got them on in a few minutes and then got back in my car. When I stepped on the gas, my tires seemed to spin for a bit until my car actually got moving. I thought this might have been normal since it was my first time. But it was stop and go traffic all the way until the actual officer checked each car, and each time I stopped and started again my tires would slip. It just didn't feel right. I asked the officer if my chains were on properly. He gave them a tug and said they were still too lose and I had to pull over to tighten them. THIS was the hard part. In my practice I had managed to get 2 bushings through the hole, and it took me a good 15 minutes on the side of the road to wrestle around and get that third bushing through to tighten everything up. Once I managed to figure out the trick, it wasn't that difficult though.My recommendation is that these are good for basic chains, but can be tricky to put on or take off for non-experienced people. For putting them on make sure you get the inside of the tire tight (really tight) first, before you do the outside of the tire. For taking them off, make sure your tire is not resting on top of any of the cables, or else you won't be able to pull to get enough slack to loosen the bushings out of the slot.

I bought these right before the January 2016 blizzard that hit the east coast. Okay, where I live it wasn't a blizzard per se, but it did leave 14 inches of snow on the ground. Here in Central Virginia we aren't used to that much snow, and my little Ford Focus wasn't exactly built for it, either.I made the mistake of not putting these on the car before the snow started. There were only a couple of inches on the ground when I did, but the instructions (and just about every other review, probably) say to test fit them first so you'll know what you're doing when you really need them. Anyone who knows me knows I did not do that, so they took me a little longer to get around the tires than they should have. It isn't a difficult process, but doing it the first time with snow already under those tires is a pain and makes it take longer than it should. So please, for your own sake, if you know snow is coming the next day, put them on before it starts falling. If the forecast was wrong you can always take them off again.Once these things were on, they worked like a champ. When it snows, I have to work. The snow started falling that Friday and I drove to work right at the beginning of it. I did not put the chains on the tires until after I arrived. Like I said above, there were already a couple of inches on the ground by then, which made the process more difficult. I probably spend about half an hour doing it. By the time I left work that night, there were probably 6 or 7 inches on the ground. While that may not be a lot for many of you reading this, it's a lot for us here in Richmond, VA. Since the snow was coming down pretty steadily, the snow plows hadn't been able to accomplish much at that point, and a lot of the roads I had to take had not been touched. But, with these chains on the tires the Focus had absolutely no problems whatsoever. The traction light did not come on one time--and it's pretty sensitive, usually lighting up whenever the car hits a decent-sized puddle. There was no speeding down the road (instructions say keep it to round 30 or 35, I believe) but no slipping or sliding. Braking wasn't a problem, nor was getting going from a stop. I only had a couple of small hills to traverse, but there were no problems there, either.Fast-forward to Sunday morning, and it was a different of a story. The car had been parked since Friday night when I got home (not sure how I managed to NOT have to work Saturday, but I wasn't complaining). By then, there were 14 inches of snow on the road (my road had not yet seen a plow of any kind) and it had drifted up over the headlights on the Focus. In that situation, the chains really couldn't do much at all. Even after I dug out the car, this snow didn't pack very well, so it was impossible to get "on top of it". The chains really couldn't do much when the snow was high enough for the front bumper to be acting like a plow. Fortunately a real plow came along just in time for me to leave for work. It only had time to make one pass, so there were still about 6 inches on the ground when I was able to leave, but that was no more of a problem than it had been Friday night.So overall I was pleased with how the chains worked. For a small car like the Focus, they make 6 or 7 inches of snow no problem to navigate. Having true winter tires might work just as well but chains are a lot cheaper--especially when you live in a place where you'll only have to use them once or twice a year.

Was coming down from Mammoth mountain to Bishop in my 2006 Nissan Sentra when white out blizzard hit. zero visibility. There were many cars sliding off the road, but even though we couldn't see the road, we didn't slide. I drove into the bank at a very low speed due to not being able to see anything, and I thought we were for sure stuck, but lo and behold, these chains got us out safe and sound. If we didn't have these chains, we would have had to been rescued.

I put 1032 on 215 70r 14's and the fit is good.

Amazingly useful and easy to install and remove....

A bit more tricky to install on a RWD sports car due to less clearance. Practice getting them on at home in the driveway first. My sports car still had high performance all seasons on them so they were closer to a summer tire. I couldn't even move the car up my driveway on half an inch of hard snow. For RWD car, I found that laying the chains down with the yellow clips pointing towards the front of the car straight behind the rear tires and backing the car up a couple feet before draping them over the tires worked the best for me. It says make sure the links are equal or within 1 link of each other on both sides in the instructions but I suggest adjust it so it's TIGHTER ON THE OUTSIDE WHEEL than the inside by 1 or 2 links. This is so if the chain does stretch or gain some slack while driving and decides to slip off the wheel, it will slip off the outside away from the car. If you tighten the links more on the inside than the outside, then if the chain slips off the wheel it's going to get caught up in your brakes, struts, CV axles, control arms etc. and that is dangerous and will cause damage and headache when you have the cables all tangled up on the inner side of the wheel. After, go for a drive a few houses down then pull a U-turn back home, check and re-tighten where needed (again adjust to make sure outside links are done tighter than the inside). Once that is done mark the links you used so in the future you know. Then the next time you need to use them, tighten the inner link to your pre-marked one, the outer may not make it all the way to it's marked one yet, that's okay. Get it snug, drive down the road 50 yards or so, then go back out and there should now be enough slack to get your outer link to where you marked it previously. Keep a pair of good gloves and a vice grip or two in the case.

I purchased this just before a big snow storm.Installed the chains only after jacking up my car for an easier install. There was a noise which came from the wire that come loose from the plastic clips.After about 30 mins the noise came back and I had to use zip tide it together to stop the noise.After about 75km of driving 1 of the cross member broke while driving. Tried to repair on the side the road and wasn't able to.I just zipped tide the broken cross member to the inside wire hub.Today as I was driving to a cleints office one side of the chain completely broken and lost somewhere on the roads, I only noticed after I parked.After leaving the cleints office, I drove to another cleint and on the way the other side of the chains broke. Now I don't have any chains just before another dump of snow

It took me 4 years before I needed them. But I passed 7 small cars like mine stuck on a hillHard to put on and take off but worth it!