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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Not on passenger cars they don’t.

I should clarify:

  • seasonal tires are definitely a thing for passenger cars.
  • bald (or sanded down/shaved) tires on a car not intended for track use means you need you need to get new tires, like, yesterday.
[–] MxM111@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Passenger cars are not in F1.

[–] Ape550@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you heard of summer tires, snow tires or all seasons?

The tires on my car can only be used in temps above 45° and honestly at 45-50° it’s extremely sketchy until they get warmed up. They’re also terrible in the rain and really only meant for warm weather and dry days.

You also wouldn’t want to run full snow tires in the summer.

So passenger cars absolutely have tires meant for different conditions

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. I own both summer and snow tires.

I am fully aware that passenger cars can and do use season-appropriate tires.

I am saying that sanding your tires down to be bald is a great way to shorten your lifespan. Normal consumer-grade non-track-use tires are categorically always supposed to have tread. If they don’t, you need new tires.

[–] Ape550@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I don’t think anyone was saying bald or sanded down tires would be good. If the tires were supposed to be groved but no longer are, those tires are WAY beyond their expected life and need to be changed. The rubber compounds are different than actual slicks and bald tires will never provide adequate traction even with the increased contact patch. Slick tires are completely different.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This is why Southern US has a problem when it snows. Everyone pretty much has summer tires.

In the cold, summer tires are as hard as hockey pucks.