I'm not proud to admit it, but that is pretty close to how my tires were last week. I finally swapped them out, but even with my employee discount i was looking at almost $700 for a set of four. Tires are expensive, and you often dont realize how bad they have gotten until it is too late. Even finding used tires is difficult these days.

That being said, going from exposed wires to fresh tires is amazing. I got in my car and immediately noticed i was sitting 3 inches higher, and it's wonderful driving a car that actually grips the road instead of just sitting on top of them.

They're slicks, just like race cars use! That must mean they're super grippy, right?

Drive a little more and you'll have METAL tires which are the BEST!

For all those wandering if these are slick (racing) tires, it doesn't look like it. You can clearly see the grooves worn out (bottom left) and the threads through the rubber on the left, indicating extremely worn out tires. I'm curious though as to how anyone would get their tires in this shape before a safety inspection would have made it mandatory to change them.

I had a motorcycle shop tell me they were saving my tires because they'd never seen anything so overcooked. What can I say, I could barely afford the bike. It isn't running now because I can't afford to fix it. This economy is fucking terrible.

Racing slicks at home:

Some racers pay big money for "Slicks" like these.

Isn't this pretty much optimal on dry surfaces? The patterns in the tires are for draining away water, and nothing else. I mean, look at F1 tires for dry roads.

But the tiniest splash of water will send you on a rotational journy into what's straight ahead.

Tires are at their best when I can see my reflection in them, right?

I didn't know a tire could be so smooth it casts a reflection. This must the maximum smoothnes possible.

You're sliding all the way to god on those bad boys

Combine with brakes worn down to the calipers on rotors directly and you’re facing the final boss on hard mode for the prize of life

Daytoooonaaaa

One more coat of WD-40 should do it.

This is just driving on hard mode.

/s no don't do this, this is so dangerous.

Does police or yearly car inspection prior to registration not check for these? Here we need to have winter set and summer set of tires, plus that all gets checked regularly and you can't register your car if it doesn't pass technical exam.

Just put them in tire warmers every morning for 20 minutes. That’ll do.

TBH, that's not a bad wear pattern, aside from being as bald a cue ball. The alignment, balance, and inflation are all pretty good, the tire is just completely shot. Most of the time you'll see pretty bad wear patterns on tires that are allowed to go that far, because people that can't afford tires usually can't afford alignments either.

How the fuck do the tires even pick up the road at that point 😂

Driving on the free way?? Christ on a bike

It's time for a tire regroove! Tire shops will hate you.