Lucid's snow socks

[DeaneG]

Has anyone tried Lucid's snow socks? I'm thinking of taking the Air to Yosemite in Feb, if the weather is clear, to see the Firefall.

 

[Sid432]

Sorry, Noob question… can you drive with snow socks on in snow ?

 

[Sid432]

Nvm google helped me

 

[segbrk]

Snow socks are for slippery emergencies, not for planned use on a trip. They wear out quickly and don't do much good in deep snow. If you're just worried about getting stuck in a slippery patch, by all means, throw them in your trunk and hope you don't have to use them. Think of them like a bag of sand but that magically stays with your tires, just giving a bit of extra grip. But plan A should be winter tires, and a nice place to wait it out should you get more than a couple inches on the road given the Air's ground clearance.

 

[DeaneG]

Snow socks are for slippery emergencies, not for planned use on a trip. They wear out quickly and don't do much good in deep snow. If you're just worried about getting stuck in a slippery patch, by all means, throw them in your trunk and hope you don't have to use them. Think of them like a bag of sand but that magically stays with your tires, just giving a bit of extra grip. But plan A should be winter tires, and a nice place to wait it out should you get more than a couple inches on the road given the Air's ground clearance.

Yep, that's the plan. If the weather isn't clear, we either won't go or we'll take our XC40 EV. The Lucid socks would just be in case we miscalculate and get stuck in an icy parking lot on my 19" all-seasons.

 

[borski]

Yep, that's the plan. If the weather isn't clear, we either won't go or we'll take our XC40 EV. The Lucid socks would just be in case we miscalculate and get stuck in an icy parking lot on my 19" all-seasons.

They go on the rear wheels. Please ignore anyone else who says otherwise. If it’s FWD, then fine, put them on the front.

But Lucid doesn’t sell a FWD car.

(They work fine, and are helpful, but aren’t a replacement for winter tires. But if you run into a storm and CHP is requiring chains on all seasons, they will accept the socks on AWD all seasons instead)

 

[DeaneG]

(They work fine, and are helpful, but aren’t a replacement for winter tires. But if you run into a storm and CHP is requiring chains on all seasons, they will accept the socks on AWD all seasons instead)

Funny, of all the times I drove back and forth to Tahoe in terrible weather, the CHP never required chains be installed on 4WD with all-seasons - only that you carry them.

 

[borski]

Funny, of all the times I drove back and forth to Tahoe in terrible weather, the CHP never required chains be installed on 4WD with all-seasons - only that you carry them.

Apparently there are worse storms

I drove through a really bad storm in Tahoe that I wasn’t sure we’d make it out of, heh, in the Ioniq 5. I was very glad I wasn’t on my 21s.