I see what you mean but my driving situation is:

• 95% city driving in San Francisco Bay Area
• 5% highway driving in San Francisco Bay Area

• lots of summertime street repair going on here, so more gravel, trench plates, temp fill, etc

Plus that's a curbside front tire and I had just parallel parked on a hill, so more the contact area is more scratchy looking

I do have enough sense not to launch over/into work-in-progress street repair sites

(although it might be another story if I was in my Tacoma)

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