how cold is too cold? for tires

Spooler · 02-25-2020, 10:56 PM

You can drive them down in the teens if you want. You just need to wait for them to come up to temperature which takes a while. Some tires do have a minimum temp to be driven on or they will crack and become junk.

Jmatchley86 · 02-26-2020, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Spooler

You can drive them down in the teens if you want. You just need to wait for them to come up to temperature which takes a while. Some tires do have a minimum temp to be driven on or they will crack and become junk.

Exactly what i was worried about, driving on them when its too cold since this is also my daily driver. Would hate to ruin these tires just because it got cold again. any low TW tire says not to drive or store these in near freezing temps, hopefully the low 40s is high enough.

Spooler · 02-26-2020, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Jmatchley86

Exactly what i was worried about, driving on them when its too cold since this is also my daily driver. Would hate to ruin these tires just because it got cold again. any low TW tire says not to drive or store these in near freezing temps, hopefully the low 40s is high enough.

RE71's are not an issue. R888r's are an issue. I am not sure what tires you are looking at but you should be fine. The problem will come if you have snow or freezing rain. No Summer tire is going to do well with that.

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