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 $700 for a set of four. Tires are expensive, and you often dont realize how bad they have gotten until it is too late. Even finding used tires is difficult these days.
That being said, going from exposed wires to fresh tires is amazing. I got in my car and immediately noticed i was sitting 3 inches higher, and it's wonderful driving a car that actually grips the road instead of just sitting on top of them.
700$!? Where are you located that tires are this expensive? Here in Austria they are between 40€-80€ per 1 tire.
Well he was suddenly 3 inches higher. So probably a big car/something with big tires. Almost Everything is more expensive on bigger cars.
I'm in Ohio and drive a Subaru Crosstrek. 255/17/55 tires arent cheap. I could have gotten discount tires somewhere, but i work at a union tire plant and so i got the premium tires that i make for a living.
40 Euro for a tire? Is that stolen and/or used?
My car has AWD and 35 profile ties. It's at least 1200USD for anything that doesn't suck because I have to change all four at the same time.
I get used tires for around $30-$40 per tire. Between $150 and $200 gets a full set with installation. They last me a few years from there, driving around 8,000 miles per year. They don't match, but I don't care.
They're slicks, just like race cars use! That must mean they're super grippy, right?
Yes, until it rains.
No, this isn’t the grippy layer. The grippy stuf is long gone.
Yes. There's more rubber touching the road, therefore more grip.
^/s
Drive a little more and you'll have METAL tires which are the BEST!
And sparkly ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧
Trains have metal wheels and are efficient. You can also be efficient by having metal tires on your car. You're welcome, FuckCars.
Once that layer is worn down, the extra grip metal braid will be exposed, and the car will have super traction.
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
Also looks like it's about to split.
I had a motorcycle shop tell me they were saving my tires because they'd never seen anything so overcooked. What can I say, I could barely afford the bike. It isn't running now because I can't afford to fix it. This economy is fucking terrible.
Racing slicks at home:
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.
And those tires are wet in the picture, so it's amazing they're still alive.
On a dry surface these have more grip but the belts are exposed and any debris wouldn't bit be absorbed by the tread so I'm guessing not optimal for dry surface but very dangerous.
Tires are at their best when I can see my reflection in them, right?
I didn't know a tire could be so smooth it casts a reflection. This must the maximum smoothnes possible.
That is quite specular.
You're sliding all the way to god on those bad boys
Combine with brakes worn down to the calipers on rotors directly and you’re facing the final boss on hard mode for the prize of life
This is just driving on hard mode.
/s no don't do this, this is so dangerous.
One more coat of WD-40 should do it.
Doo-doo-doo doo doo doo-doooooooo
I worked in an arcade in the 90s which had that machine.
I can hear that music in my dreams.
Just put them in tire warmers every morning for 20 minutes. That’ll do.
How the fuck do the tires even pick up the road at that point 😂
Driving on the free way?? Christ on a bike
Cars on race tracks use bald tyres for more contact with the road, which gives better grip. The tread is there to guide water out so the car doesn't slide in the wet.
Unfortunately it looks like the image is of a car with bald tyres in the wet (I'm assuming that's why it's shiny).
Also worth noting though that the main reason race cars are able to get more grip with slick tires is because the tires are made to have a very low melting (?) point. So they heat up very quickly and also don’t last very long as a result. But that heating up allows them to literally stick to the ground. Normal car tires ain’t doing that for sure.
I think the car might have been parked overnight because it looks like there's a layer of ice coating the tire. Talk about hard mode, now every street is an ice level!
Oooo learn somethin new every day, thanks for sharing your knowledge ❤️
The knobs on tires are so that water has a way to escape when a car drives over it. A completely flat Tyre has the most traction but can't handle rain. Every day Tires have a mix to handle all conditions. I may be wrong but I remember hearing this in a youtube video
That's basically correct. One caveat is that manufactures often put gripper material on the outside, while the inside is meant only as a base and doesn't have much grip. You can't make DIY racing slicks just by sanding down normal tires. Maybe you could back when the World's Fastest Indian guy did it, but not now.
It's time for a tire regroove! Tire shops will hate you.
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I'm assuming this mean change the tire??
[A photograph of a tire on a motor vehicle. The tire is completely smooth looking and shiny.]
Memezar, @meme_zar
The fact that you're still alive is astounding
