4wd's may need chains on ski resorts soon, even Hummers

Submitted: Tuesday, Jan 06, 2009 at 16:05
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Hi everyone

I live fairly close to the Lake Mountain ski resort in Victoria and a friend from a ski shop told me that the Lake Mountain bosses have got a bit of a problem.

These days, there’s so many different AWD (all wheel drive) and 4wd cars and at the moment, you don’t need chains even if you’ve got an AWD, but there’s still a lot of AWD cars that can’t handle the snow and ice, like Subaru Impreza’s. They’ve considered saying that AWD cars need chains and 4wd cars don’t, but there’s an awful lot of AWD cars that the manufacturers have put 4wd on, like the old Subaru’s, the RAV 4 says, ‘Full time 4wd,” all over it, that sort of thing and a lot of people with AWD cars like to say that they’ve got 4wd cars, because they’ve got drive going to 4 wheels. When the snow and ice is bad, they’re always getting people running off the road, getting stuck and accidents to.

With this problem, they’re considering making it compulsory for everyone to have chains, even if you’ve got a Hummer. I heard a while ago that Mt Buller was thinking about the same thing, but with all the fancy legal stuff, they couldn’t. I’ve been up to Lake Mountain in a Subaru Impreza before, and not only did I put chains on the front and rear, I let the tyres down and if I go there in my GQ, seen as I don’t have to worry about popping a tyre at low speeds on bitumen with a bit of snow, I let my tyres right down to about 10 PSI.

Hopefully it doesn't go ahead and if it does, hopefully it's just Lake Mountain and not the others
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