The tire treadwear rating is based on a standard that uses a control tire with a score of 100. Most tires' ratings are 200 to ...

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Our example has a treadwear rating of 400, meaning it should last twice as long as a tire with a 200 rating, though precisely how many miles you’ll get out of it depends largely on how you drive.

Uniform Treadwear Quality Grades are what separate a tire from being legal for series such as the 24 Hours of LeMons (190-treadwear minimum) or not. Lower UTQG ratings generally wear faster, but ...

Currently, the highest reported treadwear rating is 700. In fact, 98 percent of all tires tested ranked better than the control tire. Temperature, the tire’s heat resistance, is stated in letters.

Take treadwear ratings with a large grain of salt. And while manufacturers can’t overstate their rating, they are allowed to understate it. How much it’s understated and why is up to them, ...

A treadwear rating of 100 means the test tire is expected to last as long as the reference tire; 200 means twice as long, and so on. But the relatively short duration of the test and other ...

For the all-season tires tested, manufacturers’ tread-wear ratings (the Uniform Tire Quality Grades found on a tire’s sidewall) range from 520 to 740.

Consumer Reports’ latest treadwear tests reveal how long different types of tires last. These insights are based on more than 256,000 test miles logged last year.