Talk Morgan Forums Community Vehicle Talk (non-Morgan) Auto Socks For Snow Driving

With the snow and ice about in UK thought this might be of interest.

Until recently in Winter I carried a set of 'snow nets' in the boot of my BMW Cabriolet. They are effective but require the car to be jacked up to fit them and take up a large part of a limited boot. Even a bigger problem for the Mog.

Last year my brother put me onto these autosocks . They are quite easy to fit and come in a plastic bag that will fit under the seats. Their performance is very good on snow and hard packed snow and ice.

When I was googling the link above I also came across these comments. IMO well worth the investment of about £50-60 as they are a potential life saver.

There's also this:

http://www.spikes-spiders.com/

Which I think is rather clever.

I know it might be a considerable difference in cost etc but I just keep a spare set of alloys fitted with winter tyres and when the weather dictates fit them on my daily driver and it works really well

Anything that does not require the car to be jacked up tp fit the chains/nets is IMO very clever!!!! To me the beauty of the autosocks is that they take up next to no space, fit easily and are extremely effective. My snow nets used to almost fill the boot - now the socks just slip under the seat and do the same job (actually for a lot less cost).

Hope you guys are right. Having read all the links on here i have just purchased a pair of AutoSock for Brindley Chains for my wife's car.

Brindley chains appears to be the only site open at present, lets hope they do still have them in stock.

I tried to buy some for the beemer, but they don't do any to fit.

Just means I'll be wheel spinning on the drive.

Anyone know what a 3 wheeler would handle like in the snow

Evening John - I read this link http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=45&t=793651&nmt=Snow%20Socks above (it relates to BMWs they discuss this, the link may help you).

Steve, I tried the various website and non of the manufacturers of these bits of kit do them for the wheels I have on the BMW.

As per last year I'll probably used on of the old vans we have at work, not the same sort of cost if it all goes wrong.

A very good solution if you get a lot of snow and are very dependent on being mobile.

For me the autosocks are a 'reasonable' cost solution in terms of balancing having something in the car in case it snows versus the (in)frequency with which personally I am likely to be affected by snow.

I noticed on some comments that in Scandinavia some people still carry the socks even if they have snow tyres in case the going gets really difficult. I don't know if this is a sensible precaution in their harsher climate.

What I like is the fact that they do not take up boot space like my snow nets do and they are much quicker/easier to fit. Jacking up the wheels in the snow is not my favourite pastime!

A friend of my brother also found the socks great for getting up her steep drive when it was just iced over - her FWD vehicle couldn't make it up until she popped the socks on wherupon it apparently went up like it did normally.