Re: Tire Chains

["Matt Rooke" <mrooke@fcpa.fujitsu.com>]

>How useful are chains in general on a quattro?
>
>If you fit one pair, if front or rear generally more useful?
>
>Why am I asking all these questions -- I am heading down to CA from WA to
>pick up a 5kcs (Yeah! I have a quattro!!!) and drive it back to Seattle.  My
>father in law, who lives down there in CA, is insisting on purchasing some
>tire chains for me so I can get over those evil and dreaded Siskiyous in
>Oregon.

You won't need chains to get over the Sisks.  Quattro plus a good set of
M&S rated tires are legally, and practically, all that is necessary for
98% of winter mountain driving.

However, I have a set of chains (cables, actually) that I've used on the
front once in a great while, mainly to augment braking coming down steep,
icy hills.  I used to have a ski cabin at Tahoe in such a circumstance.
After needing to plow into the snow bank to avoid sliding into an
intersection, I started using the chains on bad mornings- just to get down
that hill.  Then they would quickly come off.

I doubt you would encounter anything like this on I-5!!

Matt Rooke
San Jose CA
'91cq