Looking to rent/borrow snow socks for 20” in the Bay Area

[JPC]

Hey all, snow socks for the 20” tires are all sold out, heading to Tahoe Saturday and apparently there is a freak late March storm. Anyone in the Bay Area have a set they are willing to part with for a few days just in case they are needed?

-JP

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[A Land Rover Forever]

are the tires not MS rated?

 

[Riviot]

are the tires not MS rated?

Not only MS, 3PMS. You aren't required to carry them... At least by WSDOT standards.

 

[A Land Rover Forever]

Not only MS, 3PMS. You aren't required to carry them... At least by WSDOT standards.

If that's the case you won't need them for this little storm. I was there a few weeks ago for the big bomb snow and made it through no prob!

https://www.rivianforums.com/forum/threads/big-sierra-snow-storm-no-problem.24808/

 

[Cyathus]

Hi JP,

i have a set for the 21” ties, not sure if they’ll work on the 20” ones or not. They are the AutoSock 870’s if you want to check.

Cheers!

 

[Singletracker]

I’m a skier and have been driving in the Sierras for decades and never needed chains to get around. This is with multiple 4wd vehicles with A/T type 3PMS tires. There are R1, R2 and R3 chain requirement designations. R1 and R2 are the normal snow situation basically requiring chains on all vehicles except 4WD with snow type tires (A/T’s with 3PMS are fine). R3 conditions require chains on ALL vehicles, period. The things is, by the time they get to R3 conditions, the road is most likely closed. I can’t recall actually ever seeing an R3 requirement. Having said that, you are required to carry chains, just in case. I can’t recall ever having been stopped and have almost never actually had a set on board. They just wave me through.

 

[HaveBlue]

I've been in R3 condtions. It's a Sht show with 2WD vehicles stuck all over the road even with cables on. I spent an evening going around stuck vehicles on a mountain road. At first I was like, "Oh I should tow that poor stuck guy out of the ditch." Very quickly there were so many stuck vehicles that I was simply in the oncoming traffic lane all the way up the mountain. I figured I find a spot to pull off whenever there was oncoming traffic. Not one car came down the hill. I got to the top and the roads were deserted in the middle of the night. There were several feet of snow on our 1/2 mile driveway. I didn't make it all the way up. Unbeached it the next morning.

My Avatar is exactly the same spot in the Rivian but I was smarter to avoid snow shovel duty.

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