Do I need snow chains with Tiguan 4motion

[leegil]

Coming back to a VW soon but I thought I'd chime in.
In winter 2019 Perisher ski season, I was driving at 10pm towards Guthega. Road was covered in pure ice. My Volvo XC60 just slipped across the road and I was just able to pull to the side of the road. As I got out of the car, the wind was crazy and I started sliding away from the car! I grabbed the door before I slipped too far down the road.
I was able to put snow chains onto the wheels, in the blizzard conditions. I was able to get going again. Front wheels gripped but I could feel the rear wheels slip.
When I got to Guthega road itself, in the first steep section, around 5x big 4x4 vehicles had stopped, as they were trying to rescue a ditched Ford Rapter. Talked to them and none had chains and were all slipping on the ice. They were contemplating what to do.
Point of this story...when you hit raw ice only chains will do. Compressed snow has got some nice grip but when it is too compressed, it is like ice. Never brake hard, downshift instead.
Last winter I saw too many big 4x4 in the ditch because people think 4x4 will do everything. Nothing beats commonsense physics.

[Sudoku]

Can we use snow chain on Tiguan 162 R line? I was reading somewhere that R line has 20" tyres and chains cannot be used, when to use snow mode?

[iDiesel]

Yeah, I think the options were very very limited for the 20" wheels

Theres a thread on here about it

EDIT:
No going to the snow in a 162TSI

[leegil]

I use Volvo's own 'spider' snow chains. These were rebadged RUD Centrex V. Thule-Konig also makes similar ones. RUD has the sizes https://www.rud.com/fileadmin/user_u...e_CentraxV.pdf

They are designed to literally hug the tyre surface and are designed for vehicles that do not have enough clearance on the backside of the wheels where the brake lines are. Many cars such as the Volvo XC60 and others (more modern cars) do not have enough clearance on the backside of the tyres, and these are great.

These chains are accepted everywhere (with the exception of Mt Hotham) because Hotham is "unique".

When mounted on and used correctly, the work great. Like with any snow chains do not exceed 50kph (or whatever is rated for the chain).

You'll need to go searching on Google to buy (sometimes cheaper to buy from overseas as Aus stock is limited).

[PDMJO]

Yeah, I think the options were very very limited for the 20" wheels

Theres a thread on here about it

EDIT:
No going to the snow in a 162TSI

The thread posted above has all the info - but it is stated in the manual that we can’t fit chains to the 20” suzuka rims. Experience shows otherwise, but I’ll let you draw your own conclusions

[Sudoku]

Fit my car sells Snow chains for 20" tyres. Check the size chart.
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