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From: jeffm@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff McMeekin)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Plastic Chains
Message-ID: <3320@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Dec-83 12:25:57 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  8 12:25:57 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Dec-83 00:53:11 EST
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR.
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I saw a recommendation for plastic chains and felt an immediate
need for public outcry.  Plastic chains are disposable chains.
Use them once, and throw them away.  I bought a set once and was
flabbergasted at their rate of degeneration. I used them on a road
that was a mixture of old packed snow and slush.  By the end
of the trip they were so torn up, I threw them away.  Since then
every time I've taken a trip into snow country I've seen one or
two of those sets lying on the road where they've fallen off someone's
wheel.  I could understand their place in society as emergency
chains if they cost $5.  But they cost considerably more than that.

And on another topic, do front wheel drive car owners know their cars
are front wheel drive? Do front wheel drive car owners know they
should put chains on their front wheels? Recent experience on Interstate 5
over the pass on the Oregon/California border would lead me
to believe there is quite a lot of confusion on the topic.