[arudlang]

BTW, what the hell do you need chains for anyway??? You drive a Cherokee, not a Toyota Corolla!!!🤔

"Need" definitely isn't the word, but I'm the type of person that likes to over-prepare. I've been in a situation once where it would have really helped if I could have put on chains, I just couldn't get enough traction to get out of a snowy ditch I had slid into. Ever since then I like to carry chains just in case but haven't needed them since getting them.

Chains are required to at least be in the car in certain mountain pass areas out west where my wife's family lives. We can't really afford to drive two days all the way from Minnesota just to get turned away because the weather goes sour and we don't have the legally required equipment on-board. From what I hear they never really make anybody with an AWD Cherokee put the chains actually on unless you are running some bald street tires. Her Grandparents live in one of the more treacherous mountain passes and in the winter there are times when its difficult to access their property. We have been fairly lucky each time we've visited so far but the chains are there if we really need them. I always go for self recovery if I can, I absolutely hate having to call in for help/tow.

 

[arudlang]

I just think pushing the tires out just a hair would improve the stance/appearance. I don't want to go extreme with it. Just enough to look good

I've thought about running spacers to get some better clearance from the bottom of the spring perches for the use of tire chains in the mountains, and the looks would be a nice bonus, but I think if you don't get a big enough spacer then you aren't going to get any noticeable improvement in looks. A half inch spacer I don't think anyone would even notice or car. I've seen people post threads elsewhere titled "Added spacers, got pics" and you click on the thread and its a 10 mm shim spacer... why bother?

I don't think anything less than 3/4 is worth the time, barely noticeable. But I think it swings the other way very quickly if you go past 1.25 inches and gets wild in a hurry... 1 inch might be the sweet spot.

One thing to maybe check is whether the track width is different in the front vs the back. The front might already be wider than the back, maybe would want 3/4 front which is less aggressive and maybe easier on the wheels that have to steer, and then go 1 inch in the back to get the rears closer to the fronts. I've seen that done on other cars but I'm not sure if the Cherokees have that issue where the front width is actually different than the rear width... somebody else on here probably knows.