While highway tires and all terrain tires have them built in, most mud tires do not have sipes in their tread blocks. This not only increases wear and heat in those tires, but can also decrease traction. We’ll briefly show you how to sipe the tread blocks and explain how and why it works.

There are two things you can do to your mud tires to increase traction; grooving and siping tires. We’ll talk about grooving in another article, but know that they are not the same thing. Grooving involves removing full chunks of rubber from your tread blocks.

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How To: Siping Your Mud Tires | Ford Trucks