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Your tires are an integral part of your vehicle. To be confident that your vehicle is safe to operate, you should perform routine maintenance on your tires and vehicle to ensure you’re good to hit the road safely. The tread on your tires is essential for safe vehicle operation; contact your local mechanics to determine if you think you need new tires or tire repair.

What Is The Purpose Of Tread? 

Tires should have significant grooves or channels visible on the surface of the tire where it makes contact with the road. The grooves in the tread are carefully designed to provide necessary traction that grips the road to reduce the likelihood of skidding on the roadway, especially due to snow, ice, rain, dirt, mud, or other potentially hazardous conditions. Tread is crucial for vehicle control. Without it, there is no grip on the road. Accelerating, braking, and steering are all impacted by the amount of tread a vehicle’s tires have. If your tires are lacking tread, contact your local tire shop and look into getting new tires as soon as you can to help your vehicle remain safe to be on the road.

Why Is Adequate Tread Important? 

Without deep enough tread, your vehicle is not safe to be on the road. Tires without tread are known as bald tires, and they are at a much higher risk of accidents. Bald tires create too much heat and friction between the tires and the road. Even though tires are designed to withstand high temperatures, excessive levels of heat caused by bald or balding tires can cause a tire blowout and a major accident. 

 

Your vehicle is also more at risk of hydroplaning if you don’t have adequate tread--the tread on tires today have deep enough groves and strategic patterns that allow the tire to grip the road even in very wet conditions. However, if your tread has worn out, the grooves get more shallow and less able to grip the road safely. Tread is also incredibly important for navigating through the Minnesotan winters where we endure low temperatures and a lot of snow and ice. If your tread is balding in the winter, this poses a major risk of slipping on ice due to the lack of traction on the road’s surface. 

 

Additionally, bald tires lose air much faster compared to tires with a deep tread. This means you’ll have to fill up your tires more often, you won’t get good fuel economy, and (yet again) it poses a hazard to be driving. This can all lead to the increased likelihood that you’ll experience a tire blowout while driving. Blowouts are extremely dangerous, especially at high speeds because they can lead to major injury or fatalities. One good thing to watch for is your TPMS light turning on. Contact your local auto repair shop if you notice your TPMS light is on. If you notice a dashboard light on, we can run a diagnostic test to determine what the issue is and how to best get you driving safely once again. 

How To Determine If You Need New Tires

If your tires don’t have adequate tread, it’s dangerous to be on the roads. Sometimes, a quick visual inspection of your tires is good enough to determine if your tread is deep enough. Watch for lack of tread, debris stuck in the tires, visible indicator bars, and cracks in the sidewalls. However, sometimes a visual inspection just doesn’t tell you everything you need to know. Your local tire repair shop can help you determine if your tires are safe to be on the roadways or if you need new tires. At Tire Pros & Wheel Experts, we have years of knowledge and experience helping folks in Minnesota and Wisconsin with tire repairs, getting new tires, and other auto services near Woodbury MN that help ensure a safely operating vehicle.

 

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