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With a few threads around about re-groovable tires I did some research and looked at several tire manufacturers snow treads. I decided to take my Goodyear G647s to a local truck stop and discuss with them about regrooving my tires to give me a snow tread. This is what I ended up with.

This is look of original tires.


This is what we ended up with on rear tires.

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CUMMINZ NC
2007.5 CTD, QC-DRW 3500 BFT Laramie, Smarty S-67, AMSOil Dual-Gard Bypass, Custom Line-X 4x4, 4.10LS, 988s, 68rfe, MBRP 5", Mobil Delvac. Yukon free spin, 19.5x245 G647 Goodyear's - 2006 - 37RLTSD Cedar Creek-Day Dreamer
My 2007.5 DRW Truck at www.CumminZ.com

Wow, very nice !! That is a nice pattern with a good bite !

How about some details like cost, time, etc. What lead to the thinking behind that pattern ? With the regrooving, how much thread was depth was created ? What was it before ?

Cheers.

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Couple of things. Look at the first tire with factory tread. All we did was use the original tread lines and cut them wider and just down to the depth of the original twqo center line treads. We gained no additional rubber. It cost me $50.00 for four tires. It took about 2 hours. I took a hunting trip this past week to the mtns of NC and had 13"s of snow. My factory tread was almost worthless.

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CUMMINZ NC
2007.5 CTD, QC-DRW 3500 BFT Laramie, Smarty S-67, AMSOil Dual-Gard Bypass, Custom Line-X 4x4, 4.10LS, 988s, 68rfe, MBRP 5", Mobil Delvac. Yukon free spin, 19.5x245 G647 Goodyear's - 2006 - 37RLTSD Cedar Creek-Day Dreamer
My 2007.5 DRW Truck at www.CumminZ.com

How many miles did you have on the tires before regrooving ?

Cheers.

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Maybe 35k. Using the term regrooving is not really correct as to what I did. I simply cut wider grooves in it to give me a more aggressive tread.

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CUMMINZ NC
2007.5 CTD, QC-DRW 3500 BFT Laramie, Smarty S-67, AMSOil Dual-Gard Bypass, Custom Line-X 4x4, 4.10LS, 988s, 68rfe, MBRP 5", Mobil Delvac. Yukon free spin, 19.5x245 G647 Goodyear's - 2006 - 37RLTSD Cedar Creek-Day Dreamer
My 2007.5 DRW Truck at www.CumminZ.com

Front tire design We only regrooved the two center lugs.



This is look of original tires.



This is what we ended up with on rear tires.

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CUMMINZ NC
2007.5 CTD, QC-DRW 3500 BFT Laramie, Smarty S-67, AMSOil Dual-Gard Bypass, Custom Line-X 4x4, 4.10LS, 988s, 68rfe, MBRP 5", Mobil Delvac. Yukon free spin, 19.5x245 G647 Goodyear's - 2006 - 37RLTSD Cedar Creek-Day Dreamer
My 2007.5 DRW Truck at www.CumminZ.com