Siping and road manners

Anyone have any experience with siping large tires and road manners?
Specifically the MT/Rs with only the center area siped .
Im looking at a set of used ones.
thanks

Siping,if anything should make things better.The cuts are basically microscopic,but act to effectively turn larger lugs into smaller ones!

I siped a set of 38x12.50 Swampers.
No difference what so ever on the road.
I didn't think they made much difference on the rocks either............... until I started running my new SX Swampers w/o siping and realized how bad they suck at sticking to rocks.

They will make your tires wear faster in the rocks. although probably not enough to make a difference. Apparently they are supposed to wear slower on the street due to improved heat disapation.

C-ROK said:

They will make your tires wear faster in the rocks. although probably not enough to make a difference. Apparently they are supposed to wear slower on the street due to improved heat disapation.

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Ditto what Greg said. Siping overall gives improved performance.

Ditto on the above...34x10.50 center lugs and on the street it is a little quiter...Noticed a little difference on trail. It was dry at Tellico this past weekend so have not got to try it out in the mud yet...