Today this 2015 volkswagen passat we’re going to show you the glacier cable snow tire chains part number pw 1038 now for reference work with a tire size today of 215 by 50 55 r17 a couple details about our snow chain is that it’s actually constructed from all cable actually the very low profile on the tire so it’s good for vehicles the limited clearance between the tire and offender well it may be suspensions components as well now if construction of a cable is a case hardened low-carbon steel and the spring rollers wrapped around sturdy wire cross cables as well and they’ll move around and dig adds need it in the snow now the idea behind these guys is that it’s great to get you out of a jam so if you’re on the highway somewhere and the snow piles up it’s getting harder to get around it’s good idea to put these on until you get to a better section of highway ok first off it’s always a good idea to do a practice run like what we’re doing here well for snow chains before we actually need them now now we’ll go ahead and start off by making sure we have the right side facing the tire easiest way to tell is that this hook right here how it comes up and around that always faces the ice and snow now at the very ends of a chain it has the end of the cable here with these stops or notches both of these typically go towards the back of a vehicle when you first lay it on the tire alright let’s go ahead and put it on retire alright well I like to do is just drape it over a tire first make sure you get these crossbars even as possible across the top of tire and also make sure you’re not hung up with anything behind a tire and wheel like to suspension components and then you have to rotate it a little bit but like take the ends and tuck them in front and behind a tire now it’s tempting to do the outside first but you actually want to do the inside so let’s go ahead and get underneath there and go ahead make our connection a little bit easier to do it we’re on a ramp here or lift but you could also turn your tire one way or the other since there’s a front-wheel drive vehicle make it easier get access to it but all that happens is you take up your slack between the two ends you run the cable through the catch and just take up the slack going to make a note of what how many stops you’re using in this case one two three four five carry excess will go through this clip right here I’ll keep it under control as tire rotates all right let’s do
this one more time on the outside of the tire now remember we use five stops on the inside now we can use that same number on the outside here plus 1 or minus 1 anything more than that then we’re proud to readjust it on the inside let’s go ahead and put together it looks like we can use number four all right we’ll go ahead and put the excess into our clip and our snow chain is installed however a lot of times you still end up a little bit of a loose fit here so in that case you can go ahead and use a tensioner to help it out notice part number is pw 105 basically it has six points of contact useful to try to keep as even as possible on your snow chain and when you install these guys you will make sure the hooks face away from your tire so that way it doesn’t dig into it you can see here it actually adds a lot of tension to it and gives a much more snug fit against tire than what you want now finish it for a glacier tire chains for our 2015 volkswagen passat you
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