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Originally Posted by asteele-xr6
Whilst new tyres have nice sharp edges to their blocks, they should perform great in the wet - it's how the same tyre performs once those blocks have some wear on them that the performance will likely change...
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Well you learn something new every day.
There I was believing that decreasing wet performance was due to the decreasing tread depth not being able to clear the water away from the tyre as quickly as it did when new.
But an update. We have just done a round trip to Adelaide and the tyres performed very well, but they are wearing a little more quickly than I hoped. About 0.5mm in 3000km. We will have to see if the wear rate alters as they clock up more distance.
And an apology. My tyre gauge has two sets of readings that are not clearly marked. Both mm an 32nds of an inch(
) and I read the wrong set. The correct tread depths are 8mm total and 6mm to the tread wear indicator bars.
Sorry
Cheers