Beefed Up Traction Laws For Colorado Highways

[Tarryall]

For nine months of the year, Colorado will require two wheel drive vehicles to have better tires or traction devices. About f'ing time? Or excessive nannyism? Personally I like this. One car with bald tires can create a whole lot of damage or shut down highways for a long time.

[There you go again]

I wish they’d do that here. People run their tires here till they’re literally bald then careen down the highway when it rains causing the highest rate of traffic deaths in the nation. Stupid people...

[Karen]

Skeptical here. I see this as a lip service unenforced happy solution.

Interstate 70 is an "inter-state" Federal highway, I'm not sure Colorado should arbitrarily change tire wear specs to 3/16" when the standard wear bar has always been 2/32 (or 1/16) for ages"

https://resources.tireamerica.com/resea ... read-depth

"Indicator bars also allow you to monitor tread wear. U.S. Federal safety standards require that tire tread patterns include 2/32" tread wear indicators across their tread, in the grooves."

Out of state travelers are not going to be aware of this law passing thru the state, and they are not going to stop at a tire store on the border, or trade in for a four wheel drive just to pass thru Colorado. Colorado passes have nasty winter driving but so do WY Montana and Donners Pass in CA, along with the slushy icy east coast and mid west.

Standards exist for a reason, these state bureaucrat regulators are not Tire engineers. They are fine collectors IMO
Common sense dictates you need 4WD for the mountains when it is snowing. But everyone doesn't need it 9 months out of the year rain or shine.

[Cinnamongirl]

I don't know why but I thought this was already in effect. It's interesting my girlfriend from Pennsylvania even heard about it.

[Tarryall]

I don't know why but I thought this was already in effect. It's interesting my girlfriend from Pennsylvania even heard about it.

Cool. Good to see the word getting out!

[Karen]

I don't think you all are reading the finer details. This is now a new much higher state standard for 9 months rain or shine, it may as well be year round.
Tire wear standard in Colorado is 3x the 1/16" universal standard with the wear bars on the tires, even if you are driving on a sunny dry day on I-70 to Georgetown on Labor day week end.

And an amendment in the law provides for CDOT and the Hwy Patrol to look into enforcement methods like conducting road side check points.

Think People. Common sense. Look at the weather forecast. Buy a 4WD if you live in or visit the mtns frequently.

[Tarryall]

I don't think you all are reading the finer details. This is now a new much higher state standard for 9 months rain or shine, it may as well be year round.
Tire wear standard in Colorado is 3x the 1/16" universal standard with the wear bars on the tires, even if you are driving on a sunny dry day on I-70 to Georgetown on Labor day week end.

And an amendment in the law provides for CDOT and the Hwy Patrol to look into enforcement methods like conducting road side check points.

Think People. Common sense. Look at the weather forecast. Buy a 4WD if you live in or visit the mtns frequently.

Truth. But this shouldn't be that hard, seems so many all wheel drives are offered these days. Pretty much the only ones I don't see are the Camaro, some 2-wheel drive pickups, and the Mustang, and Challenger. Saw a Challenger having major issues last Monday.

[There you go again]

Anyone who would drive a challenger in a snow storm is challenged....