Hi, My wife and I are planning to take the Mercedes out west to CA from the midwest. The route we will be taking is either (per Google) I-80/76/70/15/CA-58/CA-46 (shortest route) or I-35/70/35/335/40/CA-58/CA-46 (longer route, by an hour). We wonder on recommendations regarding putting chains on th…

[image] aarem: the tires were singing on CA-41, but we did not quite know why. It did not happen elsewhere Probably a roughened road surface.

[image] George_San_Jose1: Probably a roughened road surface. Probably, but the roads that we traveled on in CA were simply amazing compared to the rest. Perhaps we are lucky in these sections were among those recently done or something, but there was an ocean of difference.

[image] aarem: the roads that we traveled on in CA were simply amazing compared to the rest. Interesting. I’m not sure how road surface quality & road maintenance compares state to state. When I drive from San Jose to western Colorado the worse road surfaces are usually I80 from Fairfield …

As far as roads singing, I have had a wild idea. Some grooved roads you get pitches and harmony, what if you could create an audio, like a needle on vinyl, “Too Fast” Stop Ahead etc

they do have roads in another country (I do not remember which one) that play a song when you drive over that section.

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[image] Musical Roads: 5 Places Where the Streets Sing When maneuvered correctly, cars can interact with the road to create sounds that are actually melodic.

[image] weekend-warrior: they do have roads in another country (I do not remember which one) that play a song when you drive over that section. I remember seeing I might be wrong but it seems to me it was from someone on this forum

Never mind I see you have found it while I was typing.

Tire chains for driving out to California from the midwest (2016 Mercedes E-250)

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weekend-warrior December 23, 2021, 1:13am 196

found it…

These musical roads of Japan play music as you drive over them!, Japan - Times of India Travel (indiatimes.com)

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Tire chains for driving out to California from the midwest (2016 Mercedes E-250)

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