By David Ponce
We’re struggling a little bit between mechanical translations and personal Italian knowledge to extract information on this product. This is what we’re getting: Snow Chain is a polymer liquid that you apply to your tires to simulate snow chains. It hardens upon contact with water, and provides additional traction in icy and snowy conditions. Upon hitting dry asphalt again, it will simply erode away. It’s allegedly completely biodegradable, so it won’t harm the environment (much).
This sounds like something everyone should keep in their trunk, and if it works as advertised, the ? 30 asking price sounds more than reasonable. The product page is in Italian, so if there are any details we missed, our Italian readers are more than welcome to enlighten us.
[ Snow Chain ] VIA [ Gadgetblog.it ]
Fun idea but dodgy at best methinks. Applying this stuff to your wheels would take longer than mounting actual snowchains. You can get very cheap + good + compact snowchains these days – they are easy to install and won’t scream “stupid tourist” at everyone. Think twice 🙂
Might be good to have for emergencies besides those emergency compact snow chains, in case the chains break (not likely, but some people like to prepare for everything).
hmm whats that smell… smells like …tire bollognesi!
having a compact set of snowchains beats the effort of putting that gooey stuff in 4 wheels…