Best rain tires for IT7

[Greg Amy]

If there's a DOT number on them, then they are DOT legal.

Correct. However, it is illegal to mold tires with a DOT insert if they are no longer DOT-approved. One cannot assume that since they "used to be" DOT-approved that they automatically still are...and unless that DOT-cert carries for life, I can't imagine Hoosier spending the time and money to continue certification on a tire used for dirt track roundy-round...

Edit: here ya go. Hoosier "Oval Track D.O.T. Dirt" tires.

Edit, Part Deux: BTW, they're bias-ply tires. If you're never raced on bias you're in for a surprise...

[Ed Funk]

Different tread pattern than the old Dirt Stockers we knew and loved.

[TomL]

Ed - I'm pretty sure the 13 inch Dirt Stockers still use the old "good" open tread pattern that you and I love. The Hoosier catalog has for several years listed the Dirt Stockers as having the L pattern tread described as Super Chain Link. That pattern is indeed inferior to the old Chain Link pattern for rain use. However, despite what the catalog shows, every set of 13" Dirt Stockers I've bought has the "good" pattern. The last set I bought early this year was the same.

I think the newer pattern is used on 15" Dirt Stockers, but they've never updated the 13 inchers to it - thank goodness.

[Ed Funk]

There goes my credit card....headin' to the phone by itself!

[mossaidis]

http://www.hoosiertire.com/specrr.ht...S CAR DOT BIAS

P205/60D-13** "Super Chain Link" thread. It's the only wet bias-ply with DOT.

[Greg Amy]

^^^ There you go, that's your Dirt Stocker. 205/60-13 only.

[joeg]

And that style is the same forever.

They tend to dry rot/ crack with age; they will burn-off on a damp track, but were better than the new Hoosier Wets in a deluge.

Since they do not last in storage, I would go with the new Wets--better overall in damp/ wet conditions.