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Continental VikingContact 7 Review


Winter tires offer a safer winter weather performance with their tread design and compound. This combination enables them to upgrade the winter weather driving safety.

Priority Tire offers a wide range of versatile passenger vehicle and SUV tires for sale. One of our best-selling models is Continental’s VikingContact 7, which comes in run flat versions as well. This tire uses its tread design and winter compound to boost the winter traction and hydroplaning resistance, while promoting exceptional controllability and maneuvering.

Winter Weather Traction

Winter weather traction

Winter tires have to provide secure grip in cold winter weather temperatures to ensure their driving safety. These tires must maintain a firm grip on winter weather road surfaces, while also preventing hydroplaning.

The VikingContact 7 is an excellent winter tire as it combines its tread design and ideal tire compound to enhance the winter weather traction. The special compound features a silica and canola oil blend that keeps the rubber flexibility in colder temperatures. The tread’s detailed symmetric pattern improves the grip on the ice- and snow-covered road surfaces. This pattern enhances the number of biting edges gripping the road surface while the tires are in motion. This combination enhances the grip on the road surface in winter weather, ensuring the tire’s exceptional driving safety.

The tread design also actively avoids hydroplaning. The optimal groove network with the interconnecting groove pattern manages to channel water and slush from the footprint, which actively prevents hydroplaning. Hydroplaning is a dangerous road hazard which causes the vehicle to skid and the driver to lose control over it, when water and slush cut off the tire’s surface contact. This also improves the cold temperature wet and slippery surface performance.

Handling and Controllability

Tires must have excellent controllability throughout their lifetimes as they are the only link between the vehicle and the road surface. These tires guarantee exceptional performance in versatile winter weather.

The VikingContact 7 features a stable and flat footprint that closely follows the road surface throughout its performance. The better road surface contact manages to upgrade the steering responsiveness and the driving stability. In this manner, the steering becomes faster and more precise in its response to the driver’s commands, while the structure is stabilized against the driving pressure affecting the model. This ensures the driver’s full control over the vehicle during its performance.

The tread design also upgrades the cornering and braking abilities. The shoulder tread block placement with the detailed siping pattern boosts the number of biting edges. This allows the upgraded cornering and maneuvering ability and power. The tread’s high-density siping detail with the 3D Trapez Sipes of variable thickness and the snow edges of the tread blocks manage to create friction between the tire and the road surface. This shortens the braking distance by enhancing the tire’s braking power. This combination allows the tire to improve the driving security.

Longer-Lasting Tread Life

Tires with lengthened tread lives are more popular on the tire market. These tires offer slower and even tread wear throughout their lifetime to improve the length of their usability. Manufacturers utilize versatile technologies and tread patterns to achieve a longer lasting service life.

The VikingContact 7 uses its tread design to lengthen the usability. The tread features solid linkages and interlocking block bridges secure the tread stability. They actively prevent tread flexing which allows the model to evenly distribute the driving pressure along the tread area. The equally circulated forces of acceleration, cornering and braking avoids irregular wear formations across the tread area. In this manner, the tire lengthens the tread life by preventing an uneven and accelerated tread wear rate.

Run Flat Tire Model

Run flat tire model

Some sizes of the VikingContact 7 come in a run flat version as well. These tires offer a limited temporary performance in case of air pressure loss, to prevent the vehicle from being stranded on the side of the road.

The Continental VikingContact 7 SSR was manufactured with the Self-Supporting Runflat Technology which reinforces its internal structure. The stronger construction withstands the weight of the vehicle and its passengers once air pressure leaves the tire, offering a limited temporary performance. This enables the tire to be driven on for 50 miles up to 50 mph after air pressure loss. In this manner, the vehicle can be safely driven to a nearby location where the damaged tire can be changed or fixed.

These tires are usually made for vehicles without space for a spare tire. Due to their heavier construction, run flat tires cannot be mixed with regular tires on the same vehicle.

If you’re interested in purchasing the Continental VikingContact 7 tires, you can find our current stock here.

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