Mick Max

At Discount Tire they do tire siping for $10 a tire. This puts hundreds of tiny slashes in the tread blocks which sheds snow and also helps in the wet too. Most of the best snow tires feature heavy siping. It makes sense to me that this could help a lot of drivers right now. My snows came siped.
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Has anybody done this?

92 SE-R 02 SE

thats interesting..

NYC TAR

iTrader: (2)

I think it wouldn't help that much because our tire are very soft and very slippary when wet. Also, our wear very fast. I could be wrong
Can you post some pics please!

itdood

The RE92 is already siped, sipes are always on all-season tires. I have no idea if more can be added, and if they can if it would have any effect.

Blizzacks are a really good snow tire if you have the money.

Mick Max

Wow'
I did not know the RE92 were siped. So siping may be good, but cant perform miricles. Yeah and it is hard to beleive the 92's and the Blizzaks are from the same company. Dont have pics but go to Discount Tires, or Tire rack web site snow tires, looks exactly what you will see there, exept the tread lugs shape themselves wont resemble the 92's

Mick Max

Just looked, the RE92 are not siped. Sipes are cuts in the tread blocks across the width of the tire. Bout every 1/16th Id say

BG2K

My answer.. .snow chains

j/k ...
You should look into summer only and winter only tires. Either that, or buy a 4x4 truck

Ma><iManiac

I dont know...The Craptenzas don't have any good water channeling grooves or anything like that. When I changed tires that's where I saw the biggest improvement...Wet weather traction.

Zero Deuce SE

I must be the only person that has not had any wet traction problems with my Potenzas. I have driven in the rain several times at 70 plus mph and never had any hydroplaning problems. Once I was traveling back from New Orleans to Florida. It was raining hard in Mississippi. I saw at least 10 vehicles that had hydroplaned and ended up in the median or into the retaining walls. I did not have the first problem with traction. I was driving faster than I should have been for the conditions just as the other vehicles were. Some of them probably had bad tires and some of them probably had good tires.

Mick Max

Some things are great, slippery when wet. Just not yer tires.
Charlykilo3 some time after 15-20 k or so you are gonna be in a storm and you will nearly cr*p your pants.
Specifically it will be hitting some standing water, 1/2 or more puddle. They dont channel much water they hydroplane. Keep your speed down in these conditions.

SkyDaver

But in more temparate areas, an All-season tire is probably better.

Too cold for good performance from a summer tire, too warm for good performance from a winter tire.

(Central NC)

Zero Deuce SE

Thanks for the advice but I had already approached 20k miles when I was driving back from New Orleans in the pouring rain. Just about any tire will hydroplane on a puddle at high speed. Some more than others.

Mick Max

No biggie, It is just the worst tire that I have happened to drive on in 25 years in that particular aspect of performance.