Tread wear indicators, or simply wear bars, are horizontal rubber strips in the grooves of your tire. They serve as built-in visual cues to indicate when it's time to replace your tires.

Michelin estimates that the average tire will have a 20% shorter lifespan on an EVs, which makes predictive wear all that more important. “Today, [with an EV], you’re not going to the garage ...

“These are wear bars on a tire,” he says, pointing to a small nub in the groove of the tire tread. “They’re just little raised spots between the tread, and what those are telling you is ...

On some tires, like Goodyear's Assurance MaxLife, the wear bars come with levels like 8, 6, 4, 2, indicating the tread depths 8/32, 6/32, 4/32, and 2/32 of an inch for better monitoring. Once you ...

The wear indicators are set at the legal tread depth of 1.5mm in Australia. If your tread has worn down to become level with the wear indicator, then it is definitely time to replace them.

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On wet pavement, with full tread tires, the Primacy MXV4 takes about seven feet longer to stop than the Premier A/S; when the tread is shaved to 5/32" on both models, it takes about 24 feet longer.

And so the company's engineers did something very clever and very simple for its new Premier A/S tire: They designed tread grooves that expand as the tire wears, allowing the tire to perform ...

“A palette of new technologies” under development by Michelin North America Inc. will deliver to up to a 50% improvement in tread life and better traction, particularly in wet ...

Tread wear indicators, or simply wear bars, are horizontal rubber strips in the grooves of your tire. They serve as built-in visual cues to indicate when it's time to replace your tires.