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When you’re heading up steep grades or through fresh powder, these Glacier twist link chains give you the traction you need to keep moving. The ladder-style pattern digs in with solid forward bite, helping your tires grip instead of spin. Twist links are ideal for deep snow and still add some hold on icy patches, giving you dependable traction when conditions turn rough.
Once the chains are draped over your tires, the side cams make tightening quick and easy. Just twist the cams to pull the chains taut around the tread—no extra tools or complicated adjustments needed. If you want an even firmer grip, rubber adjusters (sold separately) can help fine-tune the fit so you’re ready to roll in minutes.
Winter driving can be tough on gear, but these chains are built to last. Each link is made from case-hardened, low-carbon steel, offering a solid mix of strength and durability for repeated use in snow and slush. The hardened outer layer resists wear while the steel core absorbs the stress from rough, frozen surfaces so you can rely on them season after season.
With coverage for a broad range of tire sizes, this pair of Glacier chains works across multiple setups. Whether you’re outfitting your go-to winter driver or keeping a set in the garage for backup, they’re ready to step in whenever snow starts piling up. Each set includes two chains and is backed by a 90-day warranty.
These chains fit the following tire sizes:
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Today we're going to be taking a look at the Glacier Twisted Length Snow Tire Chain with cam tensioners. These are available in a wide variety of sizes to fit many different applications. Designed for highway use and not intended for off road applications, our tire chains do have a 30 mile an hour speed rating. As you can see, we've got a twisted length design. That gives us a raised edge on two points of our length to help get good traction for when we're taking off and stopping. They've constructed it using a low carbon steel, so we're not going to have to worry about a ton of corrosion. These chains have been designed for highway use.
They've got a rounded edge, it kind of smooths out our ride going down the road. Also, these chains are great for use on the rear axle or the front axle of front wheel drive and rear wheel drive vehicles. They've designed it in a ladder style. This is going to help us with taking off and stopping in a straight line so that this chain is going to go all the way across our tire. Now that we've gone over the features, let's show you how to get this installed. As you can see, we've spread it out here to check to make sure we have all the twists out and things like that, make sure we don't have any kinks.
Then we'll grab the side away from our tensioners. We just want to work this up and over our tire. We'll set this so that our front ladder rung or the first cross chain will sit there in front of the vehicle. Now it's time to roll it forward and allow those lengths to go underneath our wheel there. As you can see, we've got it up to about our third or fourth spot here. We'll now take the tag end, we're going to connect it on one of the six lengths there.
Let's do the fourth one, what I like to do is let those hang down so we're getting a direct connect onto our length. As you can see, we do have three extras hanging over there on the back side. We'll bring it around to the front. We've got a plus or a minus of one, so we have the option of using the third the fourth or the fifth length. I think the fourth is going to serve our purpose here. Bring that through, cam that over and there's a spare length that's hanging out here.
That's just going to go over and hold that into place for us. It's now time to start tightening our tensioners. We'll use our tensioning tools, place it in and rotate them around. As you can see, that's going to draw in some of the slack we've got and get each of our lengths of chains nice and tight. Now that we've got all of our cams tight, you'll see our chain's tightened up. We still have three excess lengths hanging off of each side of our chain here. One option would be to try to tuck that in behind our chain, to where it's not going to be flipping around. The other option would just be to cut it right off there, remove it completely. That way you won't have to worry about it slipping out as you're heading down the road. As with any manually adjusted chain, we do recommend the use of a chain tensioner. The one I've got here today is a really neat one from Glacier, the part number on it is PW105. It's got six lengths on it, as you can see, you're just going to connect those kind of evenly around our tire. That one's not so even. Kind of connect those evenly around, that's going to give us that extra little bit of force that we need to really hold our chains in place. Now that we've seen how the chain installs and how it's going to fit onto our vehicle, let's take a look and see how it performs with some footage we have of it in action. That will complete today's look at the Glacier Twist Length Snow Tire Chains with cam tighteners. .
Ratings & Reviews
Keith S.
2/20/2015
I got them after the big snowice storm we had here last year. I only had the opportunity to use them one time since getting them and really just went out then to try them out in some slush. I like them and enjoy the fact that they are in the truck at all times. It doesnt snow/ice much here, but Im ready if it does. Its bad to be like this, but I hope it snows this year just so I can use my chains? Ha!I have told others about your company and encouraged them to get chains from you.
Christopher H.
1/9/2019
Sold the GMC, bought a 2011 Tundra 4.6L DoubleCab. These chains fit a little better on that vehicle. This time the chains are on an all season radial, not snow tires. Makes the truck invincible as a plow machine. I install them on a level garage floor and make very sure they are on super tight.
Jenny N.
8/21/2023
The bags that come with the tires chains does not list every size that they fit. These chains will fit with the 255-55-20 tires.
Jenny N.
11/16/2022
I know that we ped the ball on this one and we are working to have the missing chain shipped out to you.
Tim H.
2/16/2018
Absolutely perfect though given my locality, I have only had to use them a few times
Stan H.
1/14/2018
Havent used them at all. Thats good! Theyre my insurance policy against bad weather.
Nellie H.
12/14/2017
Never had to use yhem but we have them if we need them. They are fairly easy to install so i am very appreciative of that. We thought they are well worth the price we paid. Our children live in illinois so we are sure we will need them sooner or later.
Rustyz
9/16/2016
I am still waiting to use them. It hasnt snowed or iced here yet!
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Tim S.
4/5/2017
Great. I put the chains wet in plastic bags for a year and they hardly rusted at all. Installed them on my larger 23585R-16 tires and they do fit that size too.