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Get consistent traction and a smooth ride when driving in snow and on ice. Long-lasting links are thicker than what you find on other low-profile chains. Color-coding and built-in tensioners ensure fast, easy installation and a tight fit.
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Note: To determine whether you can use snow chains on your vehicle, or if they might affect your ABS/EPS functionality, consult your owner's manual.
These Titan Chain diamond-pattern chains are great winter weather chains. If you live in an area where you're likely to get frequent snow and ice, these chains are perfect because they're durable and easy to mount. The links on these chains are thicker than the links on most other low-profile snow chains on the market, so they'll wear better and last longer. But they're still lightweight and compact, so they store in your vehicle nicely too. If you're more likely to see seriously icy conditions, you may want a chain with V-bar links that can really bite into the ice to give you maximum traction.
These chains are among the easiest and fastest to install because they have built-in tensioners that you can just pull taut to adjust the fit. These tensioners allow the chains to fit your tires, no matter the profile or wear pattern. And because the tensioners are built-in, you never have to worry about losing them like you might with other chains on the market.
If you know your tire size, you may think you won't need to test fit your new chains. But there are a lot of variables that can affect whether chains will fit your specific tires, including your tire type, the amount of air pressure in the tire, the amount of tread wear, and the tire manufacturer. You'll also need to know how much clearance is in your wheel well, which you can determine by measuring from your tire tread to the sidewall of the wheel well.
We recommend that you order chains as early in the season as possible to give yourself plenty of time to test fit the chains and reorder if needed. This way, you won't be stuck out in the cold later with snow chains that don't fit.
You can test fit these chains in your garage or driveway, but you'll want to wait until there's snow on the ground to actually drive with them. Likewise, if you're out in the snow and come across bare pavement, you'll want to pull over and remove the chains. These chains can cause damage to the bare pavement, your garage floor, or your vehicle if they break from the wear of riding on a harsh surface.
Installing these chains is incredibly simple.
1. Lay out the chains on the ground to make sure there are no twists or kinks.
2. Spread the chain around the back of the tire.
3. Connect the ends of the cable, which will sit behind the tire.
4. Around front, connect the 2 ends of the yellow side chain using the green hook at the top of the tire.
5. At the bottom of the tire, feed the silver tensioning chain through the red channel bracket and pull it taut. Then run the tensioner through as many red clips along the side chain as you can, leaving room to still be able to stretch the hook across the tire.
6. Attach the hook to the side chain directly across from the last clip you ran the tensioner through. The hook should face away from your tire. Pull your vehicle forward 2-3 vehicle lengths and recheck the tension.
How to Choose Snow Chains for Your Vehicle
To choose the right snow chain, you must match your tire size. Those measurements can be found on the side of your tire, as shown below.
185/60-15
These chains fit the following tire sizes:
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hey everyone, it's Evangeline here at etrailer, and today, we're taking a look at the Titan Chain Diamond Alloy Snow Tire Chains right here on our 2019 Kia Sorento. If you need a lot of extra traction on the road, maybe you're expecting a lot of snow and some ice, then this is gonna be an option for you. There's a bunch of different tire chains for a Kia Sorento, I personally prefer this style, because it's easier to install, but I'll show you how to do that later in this video. So this is gonna be arranged in a diamond pattern, and that is compared to your traditional ladder style chains which just go across, this covers more of your tire and helps out with those starts and those stops as well as those turns. These are heavy-duty alloy chains, so the link themselves are made of a manganese nickel alloy, and that means that it's an alloy that is preferable for multiple seasons, if you wanna be able to reuse your chains, that's a good construction for that. And the links are shaped as square links, which means they have a flat edge on each side to help bite into the ice, but also get through that snow.
The front chains are gonna be color coded and coated, which means that if you don't have gloves on, you'll still be able to install these chains, although, please use your gloves if possible. Now, for the tensioning system, I do like the design itself, because you don't have to crawl underneath your tires, you can just do everything right over here. This uses a link to just pull on your chains, and then you have a rubber tensioner here to keep things tight. The downside to this style is you're gonna have to put a lot of force into pulling that chain's height to get more tension. Now, if you're just gonna store this inside your vehicle, I really like the bag that the chains arrive in.
It is a soft shell case, very easy to store, you have a handle up top, you've got zippers to open everything up, and once you open up that case, you can find one and two chains in there. Now, I also recommend picking up our tire chain safety install kit, because that will have a rubber mat as well as some lights just to help you as you install these. There are different tire options for a Kia Sorento, so the one we have here is size 235/65R17. If you're not sure, just double check your sidewall. Now, this number is very important, because it'll help you use the etrailer.com fit guide to get the right fit for you.
This is technically a fit for this tire size, although, on the looser end, so you do have to put more energy into it. So my personal thoughts about these tire chains is, again, I do like that diamond pattern design, these are a bit more heavy-duty than your cable chains and your smaller links, so if you are expecting a lot of snow and a lot of ice, I would definitely go with these. Again, I did mention that it may be a little bit more difficult to install, so let's take a look at that process. So when your chains arrive, I highly recommend going straight away to laying them out in your garage, just double checking that everything looks good and that you get familiar with how to install your tire chains. That way, you know what to do before you're stranded by the side of the road.
So here we are, we've got our chains, we're just gonna comb them out, make sure everything looks good, and we wanna make sure it's facing the right way. So see how we have a flat portion and then we have a hooked portion So you want the flat part facing your tire and the hook facing away from your tire. Once everything looks good, just grab 1/2 of your chains and feed those around your tire and grab them on the other side. Now here, I'll like to just comb the chains out, so it makes a nice arc around the tire, I found that makes things fall easier when you go to the next step, which is connecting the two ends. You're gonna connect these above your tire. So put these together, pull it to secure, and leave those back while you bring the rest of the chains forward, and then you're gonna make your second connection, which is this green hook that goes into this yellow loop, and then just rearrange. So then, your next connection is gonna be down here, and you have this red lever, so you wanna get the long gray chain into that lever and you wanna pull to get as much tension as you can get. And then from there, you're gonna feed this in through a red hoop if needed, and then that will give you a little bit more traction to pull, and finally, connect to a secure spot up top. Now, this is a looser fit than some of the other chains. Now, we do have one of the chains stuck underneath, so in this case here, I do recommend rolling forward or rolling backward one or two feet just to get them fully aligned on the tire, and then repeat that bottom process again if you find you have a looser fit. But do this exact same process on the other side, and then, again, double check that everything looks good, if it does, then you ready hit the road. And that was a look at the Titan Chain Diamond Alloy Snow Tire Chains here on the 2019 Kia Sorento..
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