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Old Oct 2, 2005 | 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by civicburner
Interesting...I live in NYC, and as some of you know when winter comes we get alot of snow. I was just thinking that if I waited until I get down to 2/32 that I would be sliding around like a figure skater. One site says that if driving in the snow, tires should be changed at 6/32. Can anyone corroborate that?
Yes you want as deep as you can get tread for winter (well where you get snow). A deeper tread will not as easliy pack snow in between the treads and will be ejected out on each revolution.

When you are down on tread (say 2/32nds) the snow packs into the tread causing you to slip and slide.
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