that's good thinking about wet chains .. ( or salty and wet )
but no one would put wet tire chains on top of their ecu would they ?

Perhaps the poster will say 'why' her mechanic chastised her about that.

as for Studless Winter tires ..
good ones are awesome !

On 12/31/2012 7:26 PM, Mike B wrote:
> Maybe that mechanic figured that if you got in the habit of stowing the
> tire chains on top of the ECU, that one day you'd throw them there all
> wet and they'd leak salty water into it....
>
> Mike B.
>
> On 12/31/2012 9:04 PM, Dennis Haynes wrote:
>> I think that if you're driving in area that may need tire chains a
>> very good investment is a set of 4 really good winter tires. Let the
>> tire "treads" begin.
>>
>> Dennis,
>> And I still can't type on this Windows 8 Phone!
>> ________________________________
>> From: Lisa Bloch<mailto:lab@RYNTH.ORG>
>> Sent: ‎12/‎31/‎2012 11:57 AM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM<mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>> Subject: What Goes Where
>>
>> I took possession of my first vanagon earlier this month.  It's my
>> daily driver, so priority went to identifying and fixing any
>> driveability problems.
>>
>> I think we're good for now, so I'm turning my attention to the camper
>> part of the van.  My mechanic has already chastised me for putting
>> the tire chain bag on the driver's side of the under-bench
>> compartment.  So, I thought a little survey would be nice.
>>
>> what do you put where?
>>
>> Lisa Bloch
>> lab@rynth.org
>> '89 camper 2.1L automatic
>