You’re sliding all the way to god on those bad boys
It’s time for a tire regroove! Tire shops will hate you.
For all those wandering if these are slick (racing) tires, it doesn’t look like it. You can clearly see the grooves worn out (bottom left) and the threads through the rubber on the left, indicating extremely worn out tires. I’m curious though as to how anyone would get their tires in this shape before a safety inspection would have made it mandatory to change them.
Many states (and presumably many countries) done have safety inspections. In the Midwest there are tons of old vehicles that would never pass an inspection out on the road
This is just driving on hard mode.
/s no don’t do this, this is so dangerous.
I’m not proud to admit it, but that is pretty close to how my tires were last week. I finally swapped them out, but even with my employee discount i was looking at almost $700 for a set of four. Tires are expensive, and you often dont realize how bad they have gotten until it is too late. Even finding used tires is difficult these days.
That being said, going from exposed wires to fresh tires is amazing. I got in my car and immediately noticed i was sitting 3 inches higher, and it’s wonderful driving a car that actually grips the road instead of just sitting on top of them.
How did you passed the inspection with these tires?! or is it damaged within one year?
In the US most states don’t care in California (where I live) as long as it has a cat and passes emissions your good
I only just got the car 6 months ago, but Ohio doesn’t have annual inspections
700$!? Where are you located that tires are this expensive? Here in Austria they are between 40€-80€ per 1 tire.
A new set of 4 tires plus alignment for my compact crossover is about $900-930 in the US.
They’re slicks, just like race cars use! That must mean they’re super grippy, right?
Yes, until it rains.
Drive a little more and you’ll have METAL tires which are the BEST!
Once that layer is worn down, the extra grip metal braid will be exposed, and the car will have super traction.
Trains have metal wheels and are efficient. You can also be efficient by having metal tires on your car. You’re welcome, FuckCars.
Just put them in tire warmers every morning for 20 minutes. That’ll do.
TBH, that’s not a bad wear pattern, aside from being as bald a cue ball. The alignment, balance, and inflation are all pretty good, the tire is just completely shot. Most of the time you’ll see pretty bad wear patterns on tires that are allowed to go that far, because people that can’t afford tires usually can’t afford alignments either.
They must be somewhere that doesn’t salt and maintains its roads.
Does such a mystical place exist?
Probably somewhere that doesn’t snow or freeze over, and thus has reasonable maintenance costs. It’s mainly ice that breaks up the roads, after all. Normal wear and tear will do it too, of course, but water freezing and expanding in the cracks makes the problem exponentially worse every time.
Isn’t this pretty much optimal on dry surfaces? The patterns in the tires are for draining away water, and nothing else. I mean, look at F1 tires for dry roads.
But the tiniest splash of water will send you on a rotational journy into what’s straight ahead.
Racing slicks at home:
