Tire chains..absolutely not, or just a precaution?

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kbear

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I'm gearing up for the hunting season here in Colorado, and trying to get everything put together before I go. I usually always have a set of chains with me for the truck, but according to the owners manual, tire chains are a no-no unless you downsize the tires. I don't really feel like dropping the cash for a set of rubbers that I'm only going to use on this truck two times a year.

The question is, if I run chains on this beast, am I definitely going to screw something up, or if I run carefully will I be ok? Has anybody else ran chains with the stock rubber on? What's the worst case scenario for breakage?
 

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I really never needed them, to me the Raptor is more than sure footed enough without them. Just a couple of sandbags in the back. Then again Kansas City, MO is relatively flat compared to Colorado.
 
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We get pretty far back into the national forest when we go, on some pretty nasty roads. I'm anticipating the roads being passable with no chains, but at 10,000' a storm can dump a couple feet of snow on you without much warning this time of year. I'd like to figure out what I'm likely to break if I do have to run them, but I'll run chains before I dump my truck down a ravine.
 

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You should be fine. Up here we don't use em and everything fine. Now I'm not 10,000' up, buy hills/inclines are the same no matter the height.

As for the couple feet of snow from a storm, well chains ain't gonna help anyways haha



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