Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

There are 2 major problems with these ice cleats: 1. Sizing: Much smaller than advertised 2. Durability: Very flimsily made on the sides REGARDING SIZING: I wear a size 13 Men's shoe (US measurements), so I bought the largest size available XL which the company says is designed to fit shoes 13.5 - 16. Unfortunately, as you can see from the photo, the XL are much too small to fit even a size 13. The sole of the Stablicers is rubber, but does not stretch longer. Note I am not even trying to put them on boots, just regular street shoes, so I can't imagine how bad the fit would be if I was trying to put them on boots. REGARDING DURABILITY: I spent 10 years living in a community of 180 men on the peaks of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Boone, NC. We regularly got severe ice storms and all our roads were quite hilly, so for 10 years, all 180 of us tried every type of ice cleats we could find, from very expensive professional quality crampons designed for glacier climbing, to very low budget ones. As a result, we became very familiar with the quality and durability of the different types of rubber used in ice cleats. Every single type we tried failed for one reason or the other, but the most frequent type of structural failure was due to flimsy rubber. We finally discovered a brand of very low-budget cleat that claimed to use the same military-grade rubber used in tank treads. Those cleats lasted for years and were very effective--the rubber never broke, even under extremely demanding, long term use. They appear to be these: "Eagle Claw Ice Ease-On Cleats". Unfortunately, as soon as I stretched the rubber of the Stabilicers, my heart sank because the sides were so extremely flimsy, just like all the other rubber cleats we had tried over the years. I wouldn't trust these cleats to last a full winter unless you treated them as delicately as if they were on the verge of breaking at any moment. However, given the extremely poor fit, I think the sides would need to be stretched much more than they can handle in order to actually fit on the shoe.