[Shotimes] Tire Siping

[Bruce Malachuk]

 The only thing I hear about adding siping to tires has to do withy off road
vehicles, like Jeeps and such cause it allows better mud shedding and grip
on weird surfaces. I know a friend of mine spent a night siping his rear
tires on his jeep.


Bruce J Malachuk

*	94 Opal Frost MTX
*	93 Emerald Green MTX
*	93 Black ATX - parts
*	95 Silver Frost ATX SE - SLO
*	94 Emerald Green ATX - hope to be parts car soon


-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of kerbyh@netzero.net
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 5:05 PM
To: silversleepersho@yahoo.com
Cc: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Tire Siping

Tire siping died out somewhere in the Jurassic Period.  Apparently, it might
have been useful back in the dark ages of tires, but these days I think the
tire manufacturers know more about tread design than some dude at the tire
store.  Save the money on siping and buy decent tires to start with...

Kerby

-- Silver Sleeper <silversleepersho@yahoo.com> wrote:
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?
 
 
 


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J.Hall
1993 Taurus SHO atx Silver Frost
police scanner, lots of audio mods
SHO club and NWSHOC member

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