Are These MT’s Toast?

[needforspeedirl]

Mickey Thompson ET Street SS Drag Radial tires driven hard for about 30 min in cool temps - 45*F. Some launches an rolls off and on throttle on the way home from work.

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[LoftyJon]

Pretty much toast. Do you see those perpendicular markings in the tread? Those are the wear bars and need to be replaced when they are even with the tread. Supposed to have 2/32 of an inch of depth in the US.

 

[robvas]

Pretty much toast. Do you see those perpendicular markings in the tread? Those are the wear bars and need to be replaced when they are even with the tread. Supposed to have 2/32 of an inch of depth in the US.

You can run a drag radial until it's bald. Assuming the tire is otherwise fine...


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[needforspeedirl]

Pretty much toast. Do you see those perpendicular markings in the tread? Those are the wear bars and need to be replaced when they are even with the tread. Supposed to have 2/32 of an inch of depth in the US.

These are drag radials. The wear bars aren’t significant. I’m more concerned with the crocodile skin looking rubber wear marks than the tread depth. These tires have 125 miles on them and 2 burnouts at the drag strip. They will heat cycle out of life before the tread depth matters.

My question is purely based on the heat stress that was placed on the tire last night when it was cold.

 

[Q6543]

Not even broken in yet, just some rubber feathering from cold.

one good long hot burnout on a 80* day will knock that down.

 

[needforspeedirl]

Not even broken in yet, just some rubber feathering from cold.

one good long hot burnout on a 80* day will knock that down.

Thank you for the response.

 

[SR5BART]

Pretty much toast. Do you see those perpendicular markings in the tread? Those are the wear bars and need to be replaced when they are even with the tread. Supposed to have 2/32 of an inch of depth in the US.

This does not apply to a drag radial

 

[LoftyJon]

Depends on application. I guess those are put there from the manufacturer for no reason. Good luck in the rain.

 

[needforspeedirl]

Depends on application. I guess those are put there from the manufacturer for no reason. Good luck in the rain.

It’s not my daily driver but I drove in the rain to the track last week and they did fine.

 

[robvas]

A lot of us don't drive our drag radial cars in the rain

 

[AZ_Ryan]

Depends on application. I guess those are put there from the manufacturer for no reason. Good luck in the rain.

Pretty sure he's not driving in the rain on drag radials. This is a great example of if you dont know the subject matter, you dont need to respond.

Those look to have plenty of meat left on them to my eye.

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