- 1. "Performance Siping" Your Tires (score: 1)
- Author: "Len and/or Marge" <thehartnetts@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:05:10 -0800
- Les Schwab Tires is offering a service called Siping. To quote a brochure, "Siping is done by placing your tires (new or used) on a specially designed machine that rotates your tires while making sma
- /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00977.html (8,328 bytes)
- 2. RE: "Performance Siping" Your Tires (score: 1)
- Author: healeyolic <healey6@optonline.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:12:41 -0500
- Begs the question, if these are virtually invisible cuts, how many miles of tread wear before they disappear. I kinda sorta remember hearing of this sometime in the distant past although with my hair
- /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00979.html (9,073 bytes)
- 3. RE: "Performance Siping" Your Tires (score: 1)
- Author: "Len and/or Marge" <thehartnetts@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:26:07 -0800
- John: I think I was told that the cuts are made down to the wear indicators in the tread. (The Other) Len Vacaville, CA 1967 3000 MKIII HBJ8L39031 <healeys@autox.team.net> of although On brochure, de
- /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00980.html (9,928 bytes)
- 4. Re: "Performance Siping" Your Tires (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Lemon" <glemon@neb.rr.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:08:00 -0600
- I guess it sort of brings to mind "if it sounds too good to be trrue etc." I seem to remember seeing an ad or reading an article about sipes in snow or rain tires and that they are supposed to increa
- /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00982.html (10,155 bytes)
- 5. Re: "Performance Siping" Your Tires (score: 1)
- Author: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:05:12 -0800
- Here is a posting from another list that you might find informative. -Roland
- /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00983.html (11,095 bytes)
- 6. Re: "Performance Siping" Your Tires (score: 1)
- Author: Dave & M <rusd@velocitus.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:46:43 -0700
- Hi Len, Siping may have some benefit on ice. For normal driving it would reduce tread support & grip. In the case where a road tire needs more dry traction in competition, they are often shaved to a
- /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00984.html (8,933 bytes)
- 7. RE: "Performance Siping" Your Tires (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Fine" <RonFineEsq@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:43:41 -0800
- I remember buying a pair of boating deck shoes that had a flat smooth sole with these unseen cuts across the sole every mm. Just looking at them you would think that the flat sole would slip on a wet
- /html/healeys/2006-01/msg00986.html (7,543 bytes)
- 8. Re: "Performance Siping" Your Tires (score: 1)
- Author: awgertoo@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:21:26 -0500
- And more importantly, if they are invisible how can you tell when they are gone? Best--Michael Oritt, 100 Le Mans -- Subject: RE: "Performance Siping" Your Tires Begs the question, if these are virtu
- /html/healeys/2006-01/msg01001.html (7,638 bytes)
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