Spike-Spider Winter Traction Package Review
 

<p><a href="http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/chain-tracks-in-snow.JPG" title="Natty Bumpo's friend. (photo by Michael Posner)" rel="lightbox [spike-spider]"><img class="imageright" src="http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/chain-tracks-in-snow.JPG" alt="chain-tracks-in-snow.JPG" width="200" height="267" /></a>I learned to drive in Philly in the winter. Although we were always warned to watch out for the dreaded black ice, the roads where I lived were plowed, salted and gently hilled. So there was little winter drama. The only slip sliding away in my ‘hood: Paul Simon’s doleful tune and the snow-covered mall parking lot where we went for late-night donuts. Flash forward to the winter of ‘07: a family vacation to the mountains of North Carolina in our rear drive Cadillac SRX. Before embarking, I glimpsed a warning on our cabin rental website: “four wheel-drive is a must.” Ch-ch-chains. Chains for fools. Or not.</p>

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