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[cem_devecioglu]

Anyone ever tried the rope method as a get me home fix. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4u4SX9M1tQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

will work but you will be frozen to death long before the job finishes

[cem_devecioglu]

1 or 2 days a year you may stay at home or install chains or try half a ton in boot method but if you get snow more than a week or 2 weeks
you will give up for those "desperate" (sorry) methods

[ozzycat]

  you still in the doghouse  i see then LD

[Lazydocker]

you still in the doghouse  i see then LD

I'm always in the poo... Just the depth that varies

[ozzycat]

you still in the doghouse  i see then LD

I'm always in the poo... Just the depth that varies

[Gaffers]

These are MUCH BETTER..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeZYqwlgUUE

Sorry mate, did you post the wrong video, I didn't see any snow chains at all 

[TheBoy]

I got stuck in a carpark in Daventry earlier today. So I put it in Park, put on handbrake, and started to formulate a plan...  ...until the car started to slide backwards, even in park, and with handbrake on.

[Taxi_Driver]

When i was at the garage yesterday (having the rear door handle repaired, plastic pin holding it in place had snapped) i suggested they might light to rip a bonnet of an old skoda superb they have lying about and weld it onto the front of my trafic at an angle, for use as an snow plough.

They mentioned they did that to a transist a few years ago 

Heres the vid of it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4xTpF8YfA0

The 'plough' is actually a bench seat from inside the transit 

[TheBoy]

I contemplated fitting my chains in Daventry earlier...  ...before remembering that the bullet had the "wrong" wheels on

[Sir Tigger KC]

I tried out my Lidl chains this afternoon. 

At the moment I'm staying in South Wales and there's a lot of snow! My road which is on a hill, hasn't been gritted and is now hard compacted snow turning to ice... 

They are fairly easy to fit and I got them on reasonably quickly first time following the instructions.  I had plenty of grip with them and didn't spin or slide at all!    One thing to remember though is where they link together behind the wheel, as when I got to the clear tarmac and stopped to take them off, it was a bit of a faff finding the connection, especially with people watching!! 

Also a pair of gloves and an old jacket is essential as you have to reach round behind the wheels and it's messy especially when you are removing them!    I wouldn't recommend wearing your best suit!! 

For £19.99 they are a good buy and with a bit of practice will be a doddle to get on and off. 

[Steve B]

Stuck in Leicester, there was not much snow there

Had about 4 inch here.

Came back from shop, drove up onto drive car couldnt make it..so i thought  I will drop back and take a run up....so i dropped back and ended up with both rear wheels in the gutter  ...took two people to help get car and push it onto drive  idiot 

[feeutfo]

Mines lowered. Couldn't get snow chains on. Even with standard wheels fitted.

Sport stars are not recommended for use with snow chains.

[cem_devecioglu]

I tried out my Lidl chains this afternoon. 

At the moment I'm staying in South Wales and there's a lot of snow! My road which is on a hill, hasn't been gritted and is now hard compacted snow turning to ice... 

They are fairly easy to fit and I got them on reasonably quickly first time following the instructions.  I had plenty of grip with them and didn't spin or slide at all!    One thing to remember though is where they link together behind the wheel, as when I got to the clear tarmac and stopped to take them off, it was a bit of a faff finding the connection, especially with people watching!! 

Also a pair of gloves and an old jacket is essential as you have to reach round behind the wheels and it's messy especially when you are removing them!     I wouldn't recommend wearing your best suit!! 

For £19.99 they are a good buy and with a bit of practice will be a doddle to get on and off. 

this one I forgot to recommend yesterday

[cem_devecioglu]

Mines lowered. Couldn't get snow chains on. Even with standard wheels fitted.

Sport stars are not recommended for use with snow chains.

I wouldnt take any risk with expensive wheels also..

[Gaffers]

So far managed not to use them, even got the 245/55/17s up a hill that these piddly little fwds couldn't do