Sipping Tires?

[DatacomGuy]

Anyone get their tires sipped? How much did you pay and was it worth it? Drastic change in traction for wet/snow/ice?

 

[Etroze86]

Are they tires you will use all year round? if they are don't do it you will just end up chewing them up 2x as fast if not faster than that.

 

[DatacomGuy]

Are they tires you will use all year round? if they are don't do it you will just end up chewing them up 2x as fast if not faster than that.

Ah, i was afraid of that. Yes, my daily drivers year round.

 

[BlownGP]

What does sipping tires do?

 

[Etroze86]

It's for better traction on ice, basically you turn a regular tire into a snow tire.

 

[TRCM]

It's siping...not sipping. Sipping is what you do to hot coffee....or good whiskey

But what it does, is add lots of edges to grip when it is slick or icy. When it isn't slick, like during the summer, those same edges will just roll and chunk off, especially during high spirited driving.

 

[Etroze86]

Tires like this heat up like no other and its nuts how fast they chunk out when its above 40 degrees.

 

[Rotzilla]

Disagree, siped the tires on my wifes dd. We live on a dirt road, and she drives roughly 400 miles a week on the interstate. The tires are rotated every 3k by the tire shop and have approximately 60k miles on them. There is no sign of chunking or abnormal wear, and are almost to the wear bars. I will definately have the replacements siped also.

 

[NYCruiser]

Siping Tires | Slashing Tires - Consumer Reports

 

[Etroze86]

Disagree, siped the tires on my wifes dd. We live on a dirt road, and she drives roughly 400 miles a week on the interstate. The tires are rotated every 3k by the tire shop and have approximately 60k miles on them. There is no sign of chunking or abnormal wear, and are almost to the wear bars. I will definately have the replacements siped also.

You Sir got lucky I can promise you that or you have one hellva tire like a toyo M55. This is not the norm that is for sure and I have personally seen hundreds of tires chunk out because of siping a tire that shouldn't have been.

 

[SWJewellTN]

Well, to the type of driving that she does it's not exactly spirited driving discussed earlier. You are not likely to cut hard corners on the Interstate, and dirt roads would be too soft.

 

[BlownGP]

It's siping...not sipping. Sipping is what you do to hot coffee....or good whiskey

But what it does, is add lots of edges to grip when it is slick or icy. When it isn't slick, like during the summer, those same edges will just roll and chunk off, especially during high spirited driving.

Thanks, yeah you guys can keep that white ****..