What’s your latest purchase?
cheers guys 
call me stupid, call me lazy, call me what you want, i just bought a set of autosocks for my ute, at $115 delivered i dont think thats too unreasonable
Your ute is 4WD, right?
Im pretty sure he is talkin bout his falcon ute
Your ute is 4WD, right?
nah as k2 said its an xr6 falcon ute
Bummer mate - autosocks are banned for 2WD vehicles into Perisher.
Selwyn and Thredbo are OK with autosocks. For some reason, it’s just Perisher - $300 fine.
Chains not required for Thredbo anymore.
Anymore?
Its been like that for years and years Spaz! It was just a rule that was missinterpreted by the general public and abused be the local merchants!
Bummer mate - autosocks are banned for 2WD vehicles into Perisher.
Where did you source this info?
I think autosocks have never been approved for use in Australia.
Like Cords said they are good for fresh snow but not so on ice. We need chains in Aust for ice, we get icy roads more than roads covered in snow because of our climate.
Bummer mate - autosocks are banned for 2WD vehicles into Perisher.
Where did you source this info?
Not sure. It was ages ago I heard that - probably around the time i bought my chains.
OK, so I just had a bit of a Google:
First hit, from Village Ski and Snowboard in Cooma - who hire/sell chains and autosocks.
Snow Chain use and Autosocks
(dated April 18th, 2011)
NSW
Experiences in 2010 have been the following;
No customers using Autosocks had any issues with authorities on the road to Thredbo.
No customers using Autosocks had any issues with authorities on the road to Mt Selwyn.
2 customers in 2WD vehicles were fined $300 for not carrying “chains” on the road to Persiher. If this happens in 2011 we would like oppose the fine in court in order to obtain a legal ruling on the existing laws covering chains.
There are no problems whatsover with AWD vehicles using Autosocks on any road in NSW
We recommend that if you have a 2WD vehicle which cannot use conventional chains that you ski at Thredbo or Mt Selwyn.
Some customers last season decided to take Autosocks (as the safest and usually only option for their car) but also to hire a set of conventional chains in case they were pulled over and asked to produce them. This is not ideal however it is an option a number of people are taking.
And on the actual hire page, in the autosock hire section:
Available in NSW for all cars EXCEPT 2WD vehicles travelling to Perisher.
Dylan - looking at the price you bought your autosocks for, did you get them at Village Ski and Snowboard’s half price sale, or did somewhere else lower their prices to match them?
yea thats where i got them chucky
I guess it’s not really their responsibility to tell you that they were banned at Perisher, but it’s pretty slack of them nevertheless.