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When the road ices over or snow packs down into a slick sheet, the V-bar studs on these chains dig in and hold fast. Each cross chain is studded with twist-link V-bars that break through frozen buildup and give you solid traction on deep snow, ice, or even slick mud. You’ll notice the difference right away—these chains grab where others slide, giving you the confidence to keep moving when winter really hits.
The ladder-style layout of the cross chains helps you keep steady forward motion. It’s the classic setup for digging in as your tires roll, providing a consistent bite that keeps you climbing or descending without spinning out. Whether you’re easing down a slick driveway or powering up through rutted snow, this pattern helps maintain traction where it counts most.
These heavy-duty chains are built from nickel manganese alloy steel, designed to stand up to harsh use and resist corrosion. The tough alloy handles repeated contact with ice, gravel, and packed snow without wearing out quickly. So even if you’re running them hard in bad weather, you can count on them to hold strong season after season.
Out in rough terrain, you don’t want cams or levers coming undone. This manual-tension setup keeps things simple and solid—just hook them tight front and back, and you’re done. There’s nothing to pop open when you’re backing up or bouncing over uneven ground. For an even snugger fit, you can add rubber or chain adjusters (sold separately).
At 8 mm (0.312") thick, these links are made for serious traction. They’re sized for 24" tires and come as a pair, ready to tackle deep snow, ice, or muddy patches that would stop lighter chains. Whether you’re getting to work, heading home, or just trying to keep moving after a storm, this setup gives you the bite and strength to do it safely.
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 Titan Chain snow tire chains with the V bar links. These chains come in a number of sizes for a wide variety of applications. Our low carbon steel chains go across our tire horizontally. This provides excellent traction and also grip and braking. These are an SAE Class U chain, so you'll want to use them with vehicles that have no restriction around the wheel well area. They're meant for highway or off road use and it's recommended to use a rubber adjuster to help keep that tension. This one is part number TC0A3.
These Titan chains have a nice V bar pattern. What they've done is taken their standard twist links and they've added on a small angled piece of metal there, that really helps to grip that snow, give you superior traction in both snow and ice. We're here at the passenger side of the vehicle. We've got our chain all laid out. This is just to ensure that we don't have any kinks, any tangles, any twisted things that we're going to have to deal with. We're working tire size 27555R20 and again, these tire chains are made in a wide variety of sizes, so lots of different applications for them.
We'll want to just place the chain up and over our tire. It's important to keep the hook side facing outward. As you can see, we've got a nice smooth back here, and then more of a blunt surface here on the front. We don't want that to be rubbing up against the sidewall, so we'll keep that smooth edge facing in. We want to just work the chain kind of down in front of the tire here in the front. We're just going to roll it forward on it.
We want to make sure you got all the slack you can have right there. We now just want to roll our vehicle forward and we just kind of work our chain over the top of the tire here, kind of get it centered up. Any slack that you might have here in the front, you want to pull towards the back. That's where we're going to be connecting it. All right, come around here to the rear and hook our tag end up there on the larger hook. We'll pull our slack around to the front side here and get it connected as well.
It's important to note which link you use in the rear. We used our second there and we've got a plus or minus one variable, so we can use the third, the second or the first here. It looks like we may be able to get it into the second one there. You want to get it of course, as tight as you can but you also want to be able to function it and operate it, to make it safe. In my case, we just can't get it to go to that second one, so we'll use our first one, connect that in. You bring that catch right down over top of it there, that's going to hold it in place and keep it from backing out. Then we'll bring in our rubber tensioner. You just connect it in to five points around the outside of the tire here. You want to get it as equal as you can, spacing wise, but you certainly don't have to count links or do anything like that. The hooks on this should be facing outward as well, just like on the tire chain itself. You don't want that to be rubbing into your tire, causing any trouble. Just drive a few car lengths forward, make sure we don't have any slack that we need to work out of there, and re-tighten. That will complete today's look at the Titan Chain heavy duty alloy snow tire chains with square links, designed for tires sizes from 15 inches all the way up to 22 inches and offers a thirty mile an hour maximum speed rating. That will complete today's look at the Titan Chain snow tire chains, with the V bar link. .
Ratings & Reviews
Conrad L.
1/1/2024
No to good for application. Chains came apart after a couple of uses. Chains would be more suitable for short distance usage not for plowing .
Matthew
3/8/2026
Great, perfect fit and pretty durable
Kate F.
3/9/2026
Mason
7/6/2020
Chains are still going strong, I make sure the wash and dry them after each season. Would definitely buy again and I definitely recommend the metal spring tensioners.
David S.
11/18/2020
I should have bought these 20 years ago. I haven’t had to mount chains on the front yet! Saved me 5x the price not plowing the road
Peter
8/16/2024
We didnt need to use the chains this past year. Were heading west to higher elevations again this year and I know that these chains will insure that our travels are much safer!
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William R.
1/12/2018
Its been almost two years, and I still like the chains. Ive driven into the snowy woods a few times this winter and got home with no problem.