Snow chain question

[jyguy915]

Hi, i have a few question about snow chain and am hoping someone can help me out. I have a 95.5 passport v6 with 4wd. So im planning to go snowboarding on sunday and the weather forcast say its going to have some snow showers, not sure how bad, but i need to buy some snow chains. I checked kragen website, but i can not find a chain that will fit my tire size, which is 225/75-15. The closest one i found was 225/80-15, will that work, can i just use a tire chain adjuster to tighten it up? thanks

[Ramblin Fever]

Where are you located? What KIND of tires do you have, i.e. street tires, all terrain tires??

I have the 4x2 Rodeo V6 that has seen MANY upon MANY of mountain snow passes, have never even thought to use or need chains - BUT I have always had all terrains on this truck as well.

[bishop242]

If you have 4 wheel drive and decent tires it would take one He** of a storm to require the use of chains to get around. The only 4x4 owners I know in Colorado that have ever used chains on their vehicles were plowing snow.
If i were to need "chains" I would look into some of the flexible composit strap types.
something like these... http://offroadrecovery.com/product/FLEX_TRAX

[jyguy915]

im glad to hear our truck can do so well on snow, but i will just buy them for the "what if" factor. I do have tires that have the M+S lable on the sidewall, so think it should be fine for snow as well. Im just a little freaked out cuz last time driving on moutain road, this car in front of me spun out after a turn, and i almost lost my control cuz i had to slow down to avoid hitting him andi was slipping and sliding all over the place. My tires have decent tread too. So the question is, will that chain size work for my tires as stated in the first post? thank you

[Ramblin Fever]

I'd call your local tire store, i.e. Discount tire or Big O Tire and ask them.

We used chains a lot when I was a kid on a '70 Chevy 4x4 truck, but we used to 4-wheel every weekend and went into mine-shafts, river-beds, you name it, in the dead of winter up on the Continental Divide and the flat-tops, otherwise known as Coffee Pot Trail up behind Rifle/Dot-Zero in the mountains of Colorado, places even a modified Jeep had trouble during that time of year.

Sorry, it's been too long since I've had to think of chains that I wouldn't know what answer to give you.

Even so, tire configuration sizes have changed to the point that I'm not sure what a 9.5x16.5 - or however it's supposed to be listed - tire equates to any more.