Snow Chains, do I need em on a Discovery 3 ???
Discussion
M/Ts and A/Ts are very very dfferent beasts to winter tyres. Neither work very well on ice or packed snow, but both work well on deep un packed snow (which you never find on the roads in the Alps because they are so efficient at clearing the roads).
Winter tyres are made from a ridiculously soft compound with a very interesting formula which tries to adhere to dry ice at a molecular level- they also have a huge amount of siping to remove any water (what is the really slippy bit) from the road surface. It is my experience that on very cold nights hard gravelled ice which has no watery surface can be surprisingly grippy (or at least much les slippy than you might expect).
if you aren't wearing winter tyres then you may get pinged by the local polic- you "might" get away with mud/snow tyres. You can hire snow chains for about £40 from most places- every time i have hired them i have needed them!
Winter tyres are made from a ridiculously soft compound with a very interesting formula which tries to adhere to dry ice at a molecular level- they also have a huge amount of siping to remove any water (what is the really slippy bit) from the road surface. It is my experience that on very cold nights hard gravelled ice which has no watery surface can be surprisingly grippy (or at least much les slippy than you might expect).
if you aren't wearing winter tyres then you may get pinged by the local polic- you "might" get away with mud/snow tyres. You can hire snow chains for about £40 from most places- every time i have hired them i have needed them!
Though the systems on the Disco 3 are great the OE tyres are less so. Mine got stuck in a muddy field and would only slide slowly forward whatever buttons I pressed. The tyres were totally clogged with mud. I think if you are going off road you need more suitable tyres. And for the reasons others have given, I recommend you go for the chains.
Its all down to tyres I don't mind driving in the snow so much. The proper tyres help of course and even chain around the wheel's help with the grip.
It's more watching out for people driving like
that scares me. Why do people feel so the need to drive recklessly in these conditions?
It's more watching out for people driving like
that scares me. Why do people feel so the need to drive recklessly in these conditions?Edited by Tank.mod on Friday 26th June 14:40
FrankFrankFrank said:
I don't mind driving in the snow so much. The proper tyres help of course and even chain around the wheel's help with the grip.
It's more watching out for people driving like that scares me. Why do people feel so the need to drive recklessly in these conditions?
Probably for the same reason people resurrect 13 year old threads about snow chains during a heatwave It's more watching out for people driving like
that scares me. Why do people feel so the need to drive recklessly in these conditions?Edited by Tank.mod on Friday 26th June 14:40
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