Originally Posted By: TaterandNoodles
Michelin Hydroedge wear like steel. I have only worn 2/32's off of mine in more then 20k miles. They are currently rated as 90k mile treadlife.
I measured my tread depth 2 weeks ago when I rotated my tires for the 2nd time. I have a tread depth gauge and the left front had 2/32 wear toward the outer edge. The rest of the tires had 1/32 wear. I have not needed to rebalance this set of tires.
FYI my set of tires started at 11/32s tread depth.
I don't know about their snow abilities though... Our friends 03 civic with new last year hydroedges, set the record for the least distance traveled up our hardpacked snow covered hill on our driveway... Not a scientific measure but they got beat by a 2wd pickup with old [censored] tires. Alot of it is driver but my tracker in rwd only with mediocre 3 year old snow tires had no issues getting up our driveway 10 minutes later.
As for uniroyals, the original tiger paws passenger car tires are still on summer rims for the tracker. ~70,000 miles and are wearing like iron, they also grip like iron in the wet and on snow... Its hard to throw out tires with 3/4 of the tread left but they are remarkably bad in the wet.