44 and leaving in half an hour to Atlanta to pick up those drop springs

I'm having an issue atm with the above tires - slick as hell in the rain and with apprx 13,600 miles on them measure 8/32's on the front and 6/32's on the rear. This is supposed to be an 80k mile tire. i've been in contact with the Hankook southeast US tire rep but thus far he has only had me take t...