I have read a bit about this but am having a hard time understanding if it will affect our AT, XT and MT tires. I saw something about a deep tread exception, not sure the definition of this. Can anyone help explain it to me?
https://www.kcra.com/article/california-energy-commission-tire-efficiency-rules/73456508
There are some exclusions to the new rules, according to the CEC:
I looked at that list of exceptions, and maybe our tires are covered. I just don't know.
I don’t see an off road or truck impact.
Passenger cars and SUVs not using seasonal tires could see an impact. But we already have tire options for improved mileage for those types of vehicles.
So i don’t see really much of an impact. Maybe dropping the lowest quality/price tires for passenger cars?
To me this is a good thing because tire companies have consolidated and have moved away from treating them like engineered products. With regulation coming from the trade association and now treat them like consumer goods and whether or not they will get sued for selling crap. They basically have a choice to allow states to regulate them and be forced to stop selling the cheapest crappy tires or they need to fight the regulation and bring the trade association back into play. Corporations will do what they do and raise prices but they already do that at every oil shock and they never go back down so none of that is reflective of the realities of production cost anyway. The real target are the no-name replacement commuter car tires that are 20% cheaper but cost a couple of MPG.
While cheap load C 33 inch tires without the 3 peak rating (aka buckshot type MTs) are subject to the regulation, all the 37s seem to exceed the 122 load index and would not be subject to the regulation including the off-brand crap tires. 35s are split to which meet the index exemption.
How many new tire shops will open up in Nevada near the border?
A day trip to Reno is never out of the question. 😀
These tires have only 5,000 miles on them. My landscaping contractor bought them for $400 less than his last set of name brand tires which only got 20k miles out of. At this point he is looking at less than 10k life and net higher cost per mile. Literally nobody is served by these crap tires than the tire shops that get paid to swap them. This is the kind of thing DOT regulations should actually focus on.
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