My mom bought a Subaru Forester this summer, (not sure what model, but it's new, not used, so it's probably this year's) and she recently discovered that there is a problem... you're not technically supposed to put chains on it. In the owner's manual it says 2 different things: one page says you can put cable chains on it, and one page says you should never put chains on it at all. Well she doesn't want to get cable chains because they break, she wants real chains that she can use reliably.
She went to the place she bought it and they insisted she didn't need chains, the 4-wheel drive was good enough without them. (Or something, some BS like that.) But she does a lot of hiking and volunteering in the mountains and the park has signs all over that say all vehicles must be carrying chains in winter. So what is she supposed to do, keep chains in her car even though she can't put them on her tires? And what if she actually, you know, needs to put them on her tires? (Because, come on, 4WD is great but it can't do miracles.)
She got this thing because it was supposed to be a good vehicle for harsh weather and wildernessy areas. (And by the way, we LIVE in a wildernessy area. Sometimes in winter we have to put chains on just to get down off our hill, not to mention back up it.) She never suspected when she bought it that it would be chain-incompatible. So right now we're thinking "f*ck it, we're going to put chains on it anyway".
So:
a. What kind of chains should she get?
b. Do we need to modify the car in any way to make them work better?
c. Anything else??
Thanks. D:
She went to the place she bought it and they insisted she didn't need chains, the 4-wheel drive was good enough without them. (Or something, some BS like that.) But she does a lot of hiking and volunteering in the mountains and the park has signs all over that say all vehicles must be carrying chains in winter. So what is she supposed to do, keep chains in her car even though she can't put them on her tires? And what if she actually, you know, needs to put them on her tires? (Because, come on, 4WD is great but it can't do miracles.)
She got this thing because it was supposed to be a good vehicle for harsh weather and wildernessy areas. (And by the way, we LIVE in a wildernessy area. Sometimes in winter we have to put chains on just to get down off our hill, not to mention back up it.) She never suspected when she bought it that it would be chain-incompatible. So right now we're thinking "f*ck it, we're going to put chains on it anyway".
So:
a. What kind of chains should she get?
b. Do we need to modify the car in any way to make them work better?
c. Anything else??
Thanks. D: