 Poster: A snowHead
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ise - thanks for your reply on my thread about where to go this weekend.
Bois de la char have a room left - but their email scared me coz it says we need snow tyres or chains to get up to the hotel... Having spent an hour last month trying to get our chains on - this put me off a bit..
Do they just mean I need to take them - or does it mean they are up so high or on a track that we will definitely need them? Be grateful if you could let me know if you know....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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jayne durham,
If you practise putting the chains on a few times at home you should be able to cut 50% of the time off, leaving 15 minutes per wheel should be ample.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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jayne durham, Saikee's right but I suspect you have a hire car?
The hotel may be telling you the access is bad currently, they are on the outskirts of the village at the foot of a piste. I have never driven there so I just don't know what the road is like, I only ski there.
However, try PM's to J2Dave, Sarah L or RobertC a quick search shows they've all stayed there. Failing that, ask the hotel guys they're pretty helpful I think.
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jayne durham, Get a head torch. Fitting chains is WAY easier when you can see.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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If one hires the car get one with snow tyres is probably enough for the job!
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Train the wife to fit the chains too. It only takes half the time if you each do a side.
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Markw, I have a feeling that Jayne Durham does not have a wife.
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thanks Ray - I certainly dont have a wife! - and Mark I did try to help - I got massive bruises on my arms from groping under the wheel arch (that was trying to get them off again!)
Thanks to all... We are driving actually so it is our car ... Yeh contacting the hotel sounds sensible... as does the torch!
Saikee - I was sooo restrained... Had been asking hubby for ages to practice before we left (but having driven for 5 years - we had never needed them) - as we ground to a halt one night - neither able to go forward or back - I was sooo good as I just did as I was told - holding the instructions as they got soggier and soggier... and the words "I told you so" did not leave my mouth..... (until later - !!!!!)
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Not in a million years I could dream of a husband getting the wife to do the snow chains. It is dirty, wet, dangerous and technically demanding. Even if I could let the wife get herself into a dirty mess I still have to check what she has done for the safety sake. I may as well get on with it and ask her to do the decent thing - pass the tissue luv as I need a pair of clean hands to steer the car
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saikee, I hope you've taken cover! For the record, Mrs L is much better at most mechanical tasks (the only exceptions are those requiring brute force and ignorance) than me.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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The road is a gentle slope but their driveway, to their carpark and back door, is quite steep with two tight turns and may be icy. I used chains over snow tyres for peace of mind - you have to get back down the hill too! I don't suppose the locals bother though.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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saikee. I suspect you are just being provocative - well, you've succeeded. Putting on chains is not dangerous (unless you've stopped in a stupid place to do it) or remotely technically demanding. One simply needs to have practised, in easy conditions, and to have re-practised at the beginning of the season. My husband can do it, slowly, but I still have to check what he has done, for safety's sake. His problem? He can never quite be bothered to practice.
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pam w,
The danger I refer to is due to incorrect installation resulting a loose snow chain smashing up part of the drive/suspension system and then the subsequent risk of trying to disentangle the seized chain.
I can live with the wife breathing down my neck keep asking "Is it safe?" (as long as my teeth aren't being pulled out like the Marathon man movie)
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You know it makes sense.
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We had some great chains last year - can't remember what they were called - we hired them. But you just put them on the ground (more or less) and attached a bit to the wheel and then you just 'drove over' them and they fitted themselves. Well - that's what my husband said. I must admit I didn't try it. But we passed loads of people struggling with chains and ours were on in a very few minutes.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Spikes Spiders are really quick to put on, you set up an attachment on the wheel hubs before you depart, then it just takes about 30 seconds per wheel to put the chains on by the side of the road
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Poster: A snowHead
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and rud euromatic are the same, I've used them on an A4 we had.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I've lived in Canada my whole life (and mostly in Toronto, where there's lots of snow) and have never seen anyone use snow chains, or anything of the sort. Not even snow tires, for that matter. Any idea as to why this is?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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