[Shotimes] Tire Siping

[Paul L Fisher]

Just do a Google search on tire sipping and you'll see the 1st couple of
pages of entries are all about off-roading.


Paul L Fisher

1999 Ford Taurus SHO TR 64K - Stock. Kirk'ed.
1993 Ford Taurus SHO ATX 183K with some stuff. Sold 3/27/04.

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-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Carl Prochilo
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 8:53 AM
To: Kenneth Epperly
Cc: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Tire Siping

Ken,  I heard the same thing when I was in chat session with one of
the people at Discount Tire.  The more grooves in the tire, the less
structural strength you have in the tread, the less traction you
have.

So the correct answer is buy the tire right the first time.

BTW, these Nitto NT 555s are pretty neat.  I haven't fully tested
the limits of adherence with the new setup, but yesterday when I was
coming back from Miami with my family in the car, I did one of the
off-ramps at 60 MPH and the car felt really planted and secure. 
Like someone said, "on rails".  I like.
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
1992 Ultra Red Crimson

Kenneth Epperly said:
> The little groves the manuf. put in the tires are sipes. Too many
> can cause
> the tread to move too much loosing traction and generating heat in
> the tire.
> Also a great way to loose the warranty on a tire.
>         imho, Ken
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Silver Sleeper" <silversleepersho@yahoo.com>
> To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 3:21 PM
> Subject: [Shotimes] Tire Siping
>
>
>> My roommate recently purchased 4 new tires over at the local tire
>> shop,
> les schwab on sunday.   Since then he's been talking up getting new
> tires
> "siped" as in getting the tread cross-cut about every 1/2 inch
> horizontally
> across the tread.   From what he says to me,  the tires are able to
> use
> "fingers" created by the sipes.  Creating better grip (tire tread
> can move
> around more), tires stay cooler,  and tire life is increased.  He
> had this
> done for $ 11 dollars a tire.
>>
>> I was just wondering,  anyone had any experience with tire siping?
>>  is
> there some measure of truth in these statements,  or are we talking
> about
> another "snake oil"  or "muffler bearing" product?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> =====
>> J.Hall
>> 1993 Taurus SHO atx Silver Frost
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>> SHO club and NWSHOC member
>>
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