Sentence examples for tread wear from inspiring English sources
A tread wear rating is given for expected tread life as a percentage of that for a standard tire.
Goodyear has developed a self-inflating tire technology intended to keep commercial truck tires at the proper pressure, saving fuel and reducing tread wear.
–Why might a monitoring system, such as the embedded cameras you read about in the New York Times article, want to check the tread wear on a tire?
Car racers use camber to achieve higher cornering speeds; they are not concerned about the faster tread wear that results when tires are not perfectly perpendicular to the road in straight-ahead driving.
It can be thrown off by uneven tread wear, driving on gravel or snow, driving less than 10 miles -- in truth, I drove only a couple of miles -- and driving with two tires deflated at the same time.
Dr. Runge's agency is beginning a public service campaign that urges drivers to check tire pressure and tread wear; for the latter, it gives the time-honored method of sticking a penny into the tread.
"Eventually, the tread wears off the tire," he said.
Wear bars become flush with the tread elements as the tread wears significantly.
After a certain number of miles on their tires, the tread wears off and it does so very quickly.
Radial tires have better traction than the old bias ply polyester tires, but even they lose their ability to grip wet pavement and channel water out as the tread wears out.
Remember that wet traction deteriorates before tread wears to its legal limit because the water has only smaller places to be squeezed out to; replacing at 4/32 can be wise.[5] Check your spare when you check your four tires.
