Hi! Has anyone used spike spiders on their Evo? I live in a mountainous area where chains are required, even on 4WD/AWD occasionally. I've used spike spiders on my Eclipse and Saturns for years, better than chains. (see http://www.spikes-spiders.com/ ) if you haven't seen these.
My questions would be - would you put them on front or rear? Would rear give enough control for steep icy roads? The spiders give the traction to pull you up, or prevent you sliding too fast.
Thanks! mtnracer

 

Honestly, given the car is AWD I would do it all around.. Just make sure you either have a winter tire on a narrower rim, or check the clearance of the setup with your wheel wells, you'd hate to tear up your wheel lips or inner splash panels with those..

 

Also after looking at the website, get very clear information on the dimension of that hub that needs installing.. Many of our rims may not allow the steel hub assembly to fit.

 

Hi! They install fine, the hub setup comes with different sized spacers - have them on now, run fine too - haven't driven them in snow yet, though. For the Evo you need the "sport" version - which is more like chains. They lie very flat. I have the standards on my Eclipse - take 20 seconds to pop them on - you NEED them up here. Unless you want to take a high dive ;-)

BTW, I have Pirelli PZeros, of course, would get Blizzaks, but 90% of my driving is non-snow, as I work down below.

I have an '05 - with the ACD.

 

look good, but i wish i could get some cheap rims for snow tires

 

hehehe...yeah...between ice, flying rocks, snow berms and whatnot...rim dings and paint scratches are par for the course up here.

 

Hi! For those who are interested - the spike spider guy said to place them where you have the most torque - given the ACD on the '05 - that's the front. Back would make no sense - I see RWD cards flying off the road up here all the time. Then you have no grip to climb either.