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Anty
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9th Jun 12 at 21:07   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Does anyone know the legal requirement on tyre tread depth.

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Matty SRi
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1.6mm iirc
valyboi
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1.6 across central 3 quarters
Bonney
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Cars and light commercials-1.6mm
Motorcycles, large goods vehicles and passenger carrying vehicles-1mm
Ben G
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Not that you want to be driving on the road with that. Both the fronts on the fiesta were on the markers (2mm), went round a roundabout in the rain and it kept going straight
Corsa_Sport21
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quote:
Originally posted by Ben G
Not that you want to be driving on the road with that. Both the fronts on the fiesta were on the markers (2mm), went round a roundabout in the rain and it kept going straight


So they were 1.6mm below the legal requirements??
Ben G
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Wut? They werent bald, they had tread, but they were about 2mm. Not ideal in the rain, made a massive difference when I switched to 15's with 7mm on.
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i need a tread gauge , i noticed the rears look kinda low.. x5 need doing ..
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Tread depth gets measured from the markers. Legal requirement is 1.6mm from the marker. So if yours were on the markers, that makes them 1.6mm below the legal requirements.
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quote:
Originally posted by Corsa_Sport21
Tread depth gets measured from the markers. Legal requirement is 1.6mm from the marker. So if yours were on the markers, that makes them 1.6mm below the legal requirements.


Doesn't say anything about measuring from the markers in this film

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quote:
Originally posted by Corsa_Sport21
Tread depth gets measured from the markers. Legal requirement is 1.6mm from the marker. So if yours were on the markers, that makes them 1.6mm below the legal requirements.


No they aren't.

1.6mm across the full circumference, not at the set points where the markers are.
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the markers are 1.6 mm, so when they are level its time to change them.
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Ah ok.

I'll dig up the other thread where some1 said tread depth is measured to the markers.
John
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Markers are so you can see when it's got to the 1.6mm.

 
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