The sipes on your tires play an important role in traction and control. Here's what sipes are, why they matter, and whether ...

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 ...

Tire makers take tread to new levels through advanced siping, improving traction and longevity. Modern tread designs are complicated affairs. Ribs, intervals between tread blocks, and hairline slits ...

Siping has been around since the first man, John Sipe, kept slipping on the slick floors of his job. Somehow, he figured out that a few shallow slices across the soles and heels of his shoes would ...

There is no place better than Duluth, with its steep hillside avenues, to test how tires work in a snowstorm. With only a little bit of planning, I happened to be driving to Duluth in the midst of ...