Anyone regrooving their own tires?

BullDoggin · Aug 23, 2013

Rawze said: ↑

Have you considered what fuel mileage differences there will be? especially if you haul anything above about 25k in weight regularly. Most of the time the fuel mileage differences are the make-break on running costs for tires long term, but many do not look down the road far enough to see this. Also, just the other day, my dash cam recorded a recap come apart on a reefer trailer where it blew a hole clean into and through the bottom of the trailer and into the freight. And yesterday, I talked to a guy who was sitting at petro with a totalled APU because his recap blew apart, destroying it. He was upset and said the 'gods' were against him because the APU was only 2 weeks old and the warranty did not cover this.

not making this up,...just telling it like I saw it...Rawze
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Warranty won't... but insurance #### sure would. But I bet he didn't call to add the APU onto his policy!

Guntoter · Jun 30, 2019

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I have been regrooveing my tires for years, no problem at all..... Until now.
I was getting a level one in California (of course) and CHP guy said that I need the same number of grooves that the factory put in the tire. HUH? I run FS-591's and they have 6 #10 grooves in them (not counting the decoupler), I have always ignored the grooves that are a half inch from the middle grooves so I just do four grooves evenly spaced across the tire with the same #10 (3/8 wide groove) as the factory. The cop didn't cite me but said I had to do all 6, I didn't demand he show me the regulation just in case he was right, he probably would have gone ahead and written it. Does anyone have real actual black and white clarification on this?

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