Snow Chain recommendations for 22s?

[Milermore]

Anyone have good snow chain recommendations for Rivians on 22s?

I'm finding it more difficult than expected to find good options for the 275/50 R22 size online.
I don't want to buy an additional set of tires for the few times that I drive snow-covered roads, but there will be times that I need chains.

For the 22 inch wheels, Rivian owners manual specifies:

• Use low profile (16 mm or smaller) snow cables.
• Install the low profile cables on the rear tires.
• Ensure the vehicle is in a four-wheel drive mode such as the All-Purpose drive mode.

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[johnstuder]

Something like this perhaps?
https://shopautosock.mcgeecompany.com/passenger-autosock-870/p25249/

 

[DTown3011]

Blizzak DM V2 Tire | Bridgestone Winter Tires for Snow & Ice (bridgestonetire.com)

 

[Dark-Fx]

Blizzak DM V2 Tire | Bridgestone Winter Tires for Snow & Ice (bridgestonetire.com)

That tire looks to have a load rating of 111. I wouldn't go that low personally, the tires on the rear axle need to be at least 112 to maintain the payload rating of the truck.

 

[electruck]

Just wanted to highlight a condition established by the OP...

I don't want to buy an additional set of tires for the few times that I drive snow-covered roads

 

[Dark-Fx]

Just wanted to highlight a condition established by the OP...

I don't want people driving on the same roads as I do without the proper equipment. Alas.

 

[DTown3011]

That tire looks to have a load rating of 111. I wouldn't go that low personally, the tires on the rear axle need to be at least 112 to maintain the payload rating of the truck.

Perhaps if you are towing, maybe, but I have no plans to tow anything in my truck. A load rating of 111 translates to over 9,600 lb load. The truck itself is about 7,000 so I can't imagine ANY scenario where I would have upwards of 2,500 pounds of gear/people/dogs/drugs in the truck to come anywhere near that number. But you might have different gear or towing plans than I do!

 

[electruck]

I don't want people driving on the same roads as I do without the proper equipment. Alas.

Chains/cables are inappropriate equipment for snow? In Oregon, he probably doesn't need snow tires unless he's going over a mountain pass where chains/cables are frequently required equipment.

 

[Dark-Fx]

Perhaps if you are towing, maybe, but I have no plans to tow anything in my truck. A load rating of 111 translates to over 9,600 lb load. The truck itself is about 7,000 so I can't imagine ANY scenario where I would have upwards of 2,500 pounds of gear/people/dogs/drugs in the truck to come anywhere near that number. But you might have different gear or towing plans than I do!

GAWR Rear on my truck is 4870 LBS, front is 4134 LBS. Those add up to 8532 LBS.

 

[Dark-Fx]

Chains/cables are inappropriate equipment for snow?

I've never known someone to preemptively put them on unless it's suddenly required to because you're going through a mountain pass that requires them. At that point, the conditions are usually such that you should have already had them on, IME.

 

[DTown3011]

GAWR Rear on my truck is 4870 LBS, front is 4134 LBS. Those add up to 8532 LBS.

I thought that was the gross vehicle weight rating of the R1T and not the GAWR?

GAWR indicates the total maximum weight that each axle is safely able to bear, but I admittedly don't know those numbers.

My understanding (could be wrong!) is you want the sum of the rear tires max load rating to equal or exceed the rear axle rating (4870 lbs in your case) OR to equal or exceed the sum of the stock tires (8532 lbs). The 111 index comes out to 4,806 which is pretty close if those are the exact numbers.

I honestly have no idea and was told their would be no math when buying cars!

 

[jamiehobbes]

There were a few chains I found on this website. It seems class s fits the thickness requirements. These just seem to mach specifications, don't know if they are any good. hope that helps.
https://peerlesschain.com/tire-chain-finder

 

[Milermore]

Chains/cables are inappropriate equipment for snow? In Oregon, he probably doesn't need snow tires unless he's going over a mountain pass where chains/cables are frequently required equipment.

You're right. Where I live we rarely get snow (the town starts shutting down when we get 2 inches), but the mountain passes often get snow in the Winter and chains may be required.
When I'm heading over the pass I'll start out on wet, rainy roads. An hour or two later I will be up in the snow zone on the pass where it may be snowing or packed snow in various stages of melt, depending on the weather of the day.
So I'd put on chains through the snow zone, then when I get far enough back down the pass that roads are just wet again I'd take off the chains again.

 

[Milermore]

There were a few chains I found on this website. It seems class s fits the thickness requirements. These just seem to mach specifications, don't know if they are any good. hope that helps.
https://peerlesschain.com/tire-chain-finder

I found those z-chains on another site (tirechainsonline, I think) that seem to show they fit.
I also found some diamond-pattern chains that look like they'd fit https://www.etrailer.com/p-KON44FR.html?hhyear=2022&hhmake=Chevrolet&hhmodel=Suburban, but I'm trying to confirm and they seem a bit premium priced. Ignore the Suburban reference - the site made me use a vehicle for fit instead of tire size, and they don't have Rivian in their list yet.

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