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millpond2 11-27-2008 04:04 PM

Anyone try these tire chains?
 
I ran across some tire chains made for vehicles with little space between the inside of the tire and the suspension parts...they are advertised to work with as little as 1/4 inch clearance. They are SCC Super Z6 chains. Anyone tryed them on an HHR?

http://www.scc-chain.com/Traction%20Pages/Trac_SZ6.html

hyperv6 11-27-2008 06:33 PM

I hav eno knoledge on these.

But please use caution as if you do hit anyting in the wheel well or if one comes lose it will do a lot of DAMAGE.

Firewatcher 11-27-2008 07:44 PM

As hyper said, be careful! If you use something like this on any vehicle, if you hear them break, STOP immediately and remove the chains from both sides. The broken side will tear your wheel well to shreds, and front wheel drive just won't take the strain of running on one side only. Over the years we tore out many a wheel well on our fire appratus with broken chains. If we were responding to a fire, we worried about damage later.

hyperv6 11-28-2008 08:36 AM

GM used to require space on all their cars for chains but that left large gaps between the tires and wheel wells.

A few years back that order was deleted and the gaps wee closed for styling.

So very few people use changes anymore and if they do they are often on 4X4 SUV's and trucks.

millpond2 11-28-2008 01:31 PM

Apparently no one has tried these chains on an HHR, so I ordered a set on Amazon.com ($78.99) and will give them a try.

hyperv6 11-28-2008 02:30 PM


Originally Posted by millpond2 (Post 331419)
Apparently no one has tried these chains on an HHR, so I ordered a set on Amazon.com ($78.99) and will give them a try.


Really watch your rear wheel well clearance as mine in pretty small. I can barely get my fingers between it an the tire.

millpond2 11-28-2008 06:20 PM


Originally Posted by hyperv6 (Post 331428)
Really watch your rear wheel well clearance as mine in pretty small. I can barely get my fingers between it an the tire.

I plan on using the chains on the front wheels.

an08HHR 11-28-2008 06:32 PM

reminds me of back in the 60's they use to joke about how to tell a (certain European person) since he put snow tires on the front of his rear wheel drive car. That was when the 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado was the first American front wheel drive car and looked weird with snow on the front when the rest of us had big knobby snows on the rear.:lol:

How times change.

hyperv6 11-28-2008 06:36 PM


Originally Posted by millpond2 (Post 331461)
I plan on using the chains on the front wheels.

Sorry Brain fade here. :lol:

SindyDix 11-28-2008 06:39 PM

It's not an absolute, just a caution. Be careful and reminded --from a 2007 owners manual:

https://www.chevyhhr.net/gallery/fil...8/nochains.jpg


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