Tire siping sounds like something a workshop made up to upsell to you during an oil change, but it's actually a legit procedure. It involves cutting tiny slits into the tread blocks to help your tires ...

When talking about the sipes on a tire, car owners typically refer to the process of adding more thin cuts, slits, or kerfs in the tread blocks. The siping process involves a machine that rotates the ...

Modern tires may seem like a single piece of uniform rubber, but they consist of many parts. Some — such as the beads, radial cord, inner liner, and belt plies — are behind the curtain, so to speak, ...

Michelin has introduced the new XDN 2 drive tire with Matrix multi-dimensional siping. The benefit of Matrix siping is that the individual tread blocks July 1, 2003 Michelin has introduced the new XDN ...