Snowchains are surprisingly quick and easy to fit!

Snowchains are technical products but they are much easier and much quicker to use than most people think. But you do need to be shown what to do - we have fitting videos for all our chains and you also need to practise.

All the chains we sell are fast fitting, even the bus and truck chains. Things were different 20 years ago which is why some people who remember snowy winters of old still dismiss snow chains as too much of a hassle. In those days you needed to lay them on the ground and then drive on to them.

The Swiss Spikes-Spider system is the fastest to fit and remove, followed by the Thule Easy-fit.

Using snowchains in the UK is a sensible thing to do

There's no real tradition of using snow chains in the UK, probably because (see above) snow chains were hard work when we had serious snow in the 60s and 70s, and it's only in the last few years that snow is becoming once again a routine element of UK winters.

Snowchains do a different job to AutoSock / snow socks

Anyone who drives on hard compacted snow will really benefit from snowchains. Should you buy snow chains or AutoSock snow socks? It makes sense to buy both, ideally, because they have different uses. If you are only budgeting for one system, we suggest that AutoSock will be adequate for most winters, and they are also smaller to store, intuitive to fit, and cover many more tyre sizes than snow chains.