Axel59 Posted May 7 Report Share Posted May 7 Slashed tire on a Ford Edge SEL AWD. I drive a Ford Edge SEL AWD and recently had one winter tire slashed. These tires had a tread wear of 8/32s. Insurance says they only will cover the one tire but with a betterment fee included. The garage claims that because of the awd system I should replace all 4 tires. If I don’t I risk damage to transmission as the system may detect different tractions from the different tires. So now I am facing buying 4 new tires and only getting compensated partially for the one that was slashed. Has anyone heard of this? Am I being scammed by garage? I am thinking I could get away with replacing just 2 tires but am not sure if that would be safe to do. Either way I seem to be out a lot of money for being insured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabangsta Posted May 7 Report Share Posted May 7 So new they have 11/32 tread, but yours are worn down to 8/32? I think the industry standard deviation is 3/32 before it will cause weird things to happen, so right at that. I don't know if Ford has a spec for it or not. Places like Tirerack can shave them to match your other 3 as well. https://www.tirerack.com/upgrade-garage/can-tires-be-shaved-to-match-tread-depths-on-allwheel-drive-fourwheel-drive-vehicles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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