Continental TrueContact Tour Review

All season touring tires for passenger vehicles are in high demand on the tire market. They offer a comfortable performance, safer all weather traction and exceptional controllability to boost the driving experience.

Quick Review

• Season: All Season
• Type: Touring
• Car Type: Passenger
• Run Flat: NO
• In Stock: Yes (Check Price)

Continental’s TrueContact Tour offers all these enhancements, along with a fuel efficient performance. We at Priority Tire are proud to offer such an excellent model to our customers at affordable prices. The model ensures first-rate comfort levels, superb year round traction and an overall cost-efficient drive.

Continental TrueContact Tour Tire Review

All Weather Performance

The combination of the tire’s all season compound and its optimized tread pattern ensures a safer year round drive. They maintain the traction needed on dry, wet and winter weather road surfaces and guarantee a first-rate performance.

The TrueContact Tour was molded from a special polymer and Silane+ compound that keeps its rubber flexibility throughout the year. In other words, it withstands the heat of summer and promotes great traction in colder winter weather temperatures as well. The symmetric tread design features a high density siping detail that increase the number of biting edges needed to boost the tire’s gripping capability. The Traction grooves pack snow into the grooves to ensure safety with snow on snow traction. This boosts the ice and snow grip and provides a secure year round performing capability.

The tread design’s three wide circumferential grooves actively resist hydroplaning. Hydroplaning or aquaplaning is a dangerous road hazard that makes the tires lose their contact with the road surface in wet and winter conditions and, as a result, causes the vehicle to be uncontrollable. The circumferential and traction grooves effectively disperse water and slush from below the tire’s footprint to prevent hydroplaning while the tires are in motion.

Controllability and Maneuvering

Tires must have good controllability for the driver to be able to safely and confidently control the vehicle in all weather conditions. They are the sole link between the vehicle and the road and their delay in the steering response and road feedback can cause disastrous consequences.

The TrueContact Tour features an optimized tread design that maintains its road contact at all times. The tread consists of large shoulder tread blocks and a specially designed center tread area that enables the model to closely follow the road surface at all times.

The better road contact enhances the steering responsiveness and the driving stability. In this manner, the tire is quicker and more precise in its response to the driver’s steering instructions, while the maintained road contact upgrades the structure’s stability during the drive. This enhanced performance guarantees a secure driving experience in all weather.

The model’s shoulder tread block sequence, with the high density siping detail, improves the cornering and maneuvering capability. They heighten the number of biting edges which grip the road surface in such situations and upgrade the tire’s cornering safety. The improved maneuvering ability allows the driver to confidently control the vehicle.

To learn more about tire sipes and siping process check our detailed guide: Tire Siping 101.

Fuel Saving Performance

All tires are subjected to the external driving pressure affecting them, called their rolling resistance. This pressure determines the amount of energy (fuel) the vehicle needs to maintain their constant motion. Depending on the rolling resistance the vehicle may need more or less fuel to keep the tires in motion.

The TrueContact Tour was designed and manufactured with Continental’s special EcoContact Technology. This technology optimizes the compound, tread design and the internal structure to decrease the rolling resistance affecting the tires. The compound’s polymer and Silane+ additives offer temperature control to ease the driving heat off the tire.

The tread design ensures constant road contact, while the reinforced structure prevents the deformation of the tire shape under the pressure. This combination reduces the rolling resistance and, with it, the vehicle’s fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, which results in a fuel efficient and environmentally friendly performance.

Lengthened Tread Life

A longer lasting tread life is always desired. Manufacturers design and produce tires that are capable of performing for lengthened periods of time. The TrueContact Tour comes with a 70-80,000 mile treadwear warranty. The H and T speed rated sizes are warrantied for 80,000 miles, while the V speed rated models receive a 70,000 mile warranty.

This is achieved by combining the tread compound and design. The compound’s polymer and Silane+ additives slow the tread wear rate down. They resist tread wear and elongate the tire’s usability significantly. The tread design’s road contact manages to evenly spread the driving pressure out across the tread area. This equal circulation of the forces of acceleration, cornering and braking avoids irregular tread wear on the tire’s surface. Furthermore, the symmetric tread design can be easily rotated to increase the tread life.

Performance Indicators

The tread pattern features special performance indicators, which visually represent the weather conditions the tire has good traction in.

The tread’s shoulder design sports three letters that correspond to weather conditions, D for dry, W for wet and S for snow. When the tire is new, all three letters are visible on the tread, which means the tire has good grip in all weather. These letters wear out along with the tread and as the letters disappear, the tire loses its grip in the represented conditions. For example, when the S wears out, it means the tire no longer has firm grip in winter weather, and when the W disappears is loses its wet traction.

These performance indicators make it easier for the driver to know when the tire loses its traction in certain weather, allowing them to change the tires before they become dangerous for use.

Comfort Above All Else

Touring tires are the leading models when it comes to the driving comfort. They filter out the road disturbances that can ruin the driving enjoyment, such as road noise and vibrations, to promote high comfort levels.

The TrueContact Tour was designed with Continental’s Comfort Ride Technology that reduces the road noise and vibrations levels felt in the vehicle’s cabin. It places an extra layer into the structure between the tread and the casing that absorbs the shock of driving. This prevents road vibrations from being felt by the passengers while the tires are in motion.

This technology also optimizes the tread elements and allows them to channel the airwaves through the tire’s footprint. In this manner, they do not come into contact with the tread elements and do not generate road and tread pattern noise as a result.

The decreased road and tread noise and vibrations provide a comfortable and enjoyable driving experience in all weather.

• All season traction
• Enhanced controllability
• Visual tread indicators
• Fuel efficient drive

Check available sizes for Continental TrueContact Tour at Priority Tire.