Continental ProContact TX Review

Touring, all season tires are known for their comfortable year round performance. They ensure secure all weather traction, while guaranteeing high driving comfort levels throughout their performance. They also promote great controllability and, at times, a fuel efficient performing ability that further increase the popularity of such models.

Quick Review

• Season: All Season
• Type: Touring / Performance
• Car Type: Passenger vehicles and SUVs
• Run Flat: NO
• In Stock: Yes (Check Price)

All Season Performance

The Continental ProContact TX is one of our most popular touring, all season tires here at Priority Tire. This tire not only offers excellent all season performance, but it also increases the controllability, fuel efficiency and tread life.

All season tires have the advantage on the tire market thanks to their ability to safely perform year round. Their tread design and compound ensure the all season performing capability and driving safety.

The ProContact TX features a symmetric ribbed tread pattern with the detailed siping design, which was molded from a durable all season tire compound. This tread pattern heightens the number of biting edges gripping the road surface, which increases the tire’s grip in dry, wet and winter weather. The special tire compound keeps the tire pliable in various temperatures, from the heat of summer to colder winter weather. This enables the tire to upgrade the year round performing security.

The tread design also helps prevent hydroplaning. Hydroplaning happens when standing water on the road surface cuts off the tire’s road contact. The tread’s circumferential grooves work together to disperse water and slush from below the tire’s footprint. In this manner, they maintain the tire’s constant surface contact and improve the performing capability and power in wet and winter weather conditions.

Controllability and Maneuvering

Tires must have easy and quick controllability to guarantee a safer performing capability. Their tread design has to optimize their road contact, as tires are the only link between the tire and the road surface. The better controllability ensures the driver’s full control over the vehicle.

The Continental ProContact TX uses its tread design to enhance the controllability. The tread’s ribbed pattern closely follows the road surface which manages to boost the steering responsiveness and the driving stability. The better surface contact enables the tire to be faster and more precise in its response to the driver’s steering instructions. The detailed interlocking siping pattern boosts the stability by securing the surface contact, while the internal construction ensures the model’s structural stability during the drive.

The tread design’s optimized elements also improve its maneuvering. The tread’s optimizes shoulder pattern upgrades the number of biting edges gripping the road surface throughout the tire’s performance. However, these biting edges ensure a safer cornering ability as they increase the tire’s grip during maneuvering. The interlocking siping pattern of the entire tread area, on the other hand, boosts the braking ability. These sipes create friction between the tire and the road surface at the moment of braking, which decreases the braking distance with the upgraded braking power, guaranteeing a safer performance.

High Driving Comfort Levels

Touring tires offers high comfort levels during their performance by decreasing the road noise heard. This can be achieved with various technologies that cancel or dampen the sound waves while the tires are in motion.

In the case of the ProContact TX tire model, Continental uses the tire’s tread pattern and optimal compound to effectively decrease formation of soundwaves. The tread’s central rib channels the airwaves through the footprint, without allowing them to come into contact with the tread elements. In this manner, the road and tread pattern noise are not generated during the drive, which prevents them from dampening the passenger’s driving enjoyment during the drive.

The tire’s special cushion compound also helps improve the driving comfort levels. This special cushion compound absorbs the shock of driving while the tires are in motion. As a result, the road vibrations are not felt in the vehicle’s cabin by the passengers. The combination of the lowered road noise and vibration levels ensures a comfortable and quiet driving experience.

Fuel-Efficient Performance

Fuel efficient tires manage to lower the fuel intake of the vehicle. Manufacturers utilize various technologies to ease the driving pressure off the tire, which decreases the rolling resistance. In this manner, the tire ensures a secure performing capability.

The ProContact TX reduces the rolling resistance using its optimal footprint and ideal tread design. The tread design’s ribbed pattern significantly improves the traction, which lowers the driving pressure affecting the tire. This effectively decreases the rolling resistance, which is the driving pressure which determines fuel intake needed for the vehicle to keep the tires in motion. The better all weather traction takes the pressure off the tire and lessens the rolling resistance. This, in turn, lowers the vehicle’s fuel intake and CO2 emissions, making the tire fuel efficient and environmentally conscious.

Longer-Lasting Tread Life

A longer lasting tread design is desired on the tires. Models with lengthened usability are more popular on the tire market and manufacturers strive to create such tires. A tire’s tread design and compound easily affect their tread wear rate and manner.

The ProContact TX was designed with a symmetric ribbed tread pattern which maintains the ideal surface contact throughout its performance. In this manner, this optimized footprint enables the tire to evenly balance out the driving pressure along the tread area. The equally distributed forces of acceleration, cornering and braking avoids irregular tread wear formations, lengthening the model’s usability.

The model’s decreased rolling resistance also plays a part in extending the tread life. It eases the pressure off the tire and greatly slows the tread wear rate down. As a result, the tire take a longer time to wear out, which boosts its service life.

The tire comes with a tread wear warranty, which varies based on the specific size’s speed rating. The T and S speed rated models receive the highest warranty of 65,000 miles. H speed rated models get a 55,000 mile warranty, while V speed rated ones get a 45,000 mile one. The lowest warranty is given to the W speed rated models, which is 40,000 miles.

Buying Guide

If you need help deciding what type of tire would best fit your vehicle, take a look at our list below. We have compiled a short list of the most important factors you need to consider before selecting tires for your vehicle.

Intended Application

Before choosing a tire, you need to make sure you’re buying what you need. Tires come in a wide range of performance capabilities and applications. This particular model was intended to be mounted on passenger vehicles and SUVs.

Size

Be sure to find the exact size of tire that fits your vehicle, in order for it to perform properly. This information is located on the tire’s sidewall or in the user’s manual of the vehicle. The Priority Tire website offers a wide range of sizes for the Continental ProContact TX model.

Take off Tires

These specific tires are Dealer Take Off Tires. This means that the tire was once mounted on a vehicle before taken off by a dealer at a dealership. These tires have not been driven on. They have 100% of tread life remaining.

• Lowered fuel usage
• Longer lasting tread life
• Hydroplaning resistance
• Precise steering responsiveness

Check available sizes for Continental ProContact TX at Priority Tire.