# Coefficient of Friction on car tires

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [February 24, 2003, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coefficient-of-friction-on-car-tires/157126 "2003-02-24T07:32:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fuel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fuel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuel)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coefficient-of-friction-on-car-tires/157126/1 "2003-02-24T07:32:38Z")

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Is there a point where car tire rubber becomes so soft that it becomes “adhesive” and will allow a pull of more than a G of acceleration? I’m not talking about smoking the tires first before the take-off or rubbing the tires down with stickem’, i’m talking theoretically, like measuring the coefficients of the road and tire and determining if this coefficient is more than 1. If so, then a car can pull more than a G off the line without any help from stickem’ on the track or tires… correct?

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**Author:** ![Fuel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fuel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuel)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coefficient-of-friction-on-car-tires/157126/2 "2003-02-24T07:34:54Z")

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Whoops, can someone move this to General Questions? I didn’t realize I was in this forum.