[jyl]

We have snow tires on the only AWD car at the house (daughter’s Honda Element) and when it’s snowy/icy in Portland that’s the car we use, if we have to go anywhere. I want to get some steelies with snow tires for one of the RWD cars we have (probably either the W124 or the W211 wagon). Normally we use studless snows. These RWD Mercedes seem to be so marginal in snow/ice that I wonder if I should get studded snows. I probably won’t, as studded tires are icky unless you’re actually on snow/ice. But chains are their own version of icky, and IME they only help with straight ahead, not so much with steering (no chains on front, rear slides out even with chains).