Dunlop Grandtrek Touring A/S DSST Review

Run flat tires offer a safer driving experience as they prevent the vehicle from being stranded on the side of the road. Combine this with a touring, all season performing capability and you get a tire that ensure a safer and more comfortable drive.

Here at Priority Tire, we offer a wide range of different models for sale that offer excellent driving safety levels. One such tire is the Dunlop Grandtrek Touring A/S DSST that guarantees all season traction, great controllability and a fuel efficient performance, which are combined with Dunlop’s Self-Supporting Runflat technology to ensure a secure performance.

All Weather Performance

All season tires offer a versatile weather performing capability. Their tread design and tire compound enable their dry, wet and winter weather traction and driving safety, while also ensuring excellent hydroplaning resistance.

The asymmetric tread design and silica tire compound of the Grandtrek Touring A/S DSST promotes its safer driving experience in all weather. The tread design’s detailed pattern improves the number of biting edges gripping the road surface in various weather conditions, while the silica compound keeps its rubber flexibility in various temperatures. This combination enables the tire’s safer year round performance.

The tread’s circumferential groove pattern helps prevent hydroplaning by boosting the wet and winter weather traction. Hydroplaning is a dangerous road hazard which causes the vehicle to skid when the water and slush located on the road surface cuts off the tire’s contact with the road. This makes the vehicle uncontrollable. The Grandtrek Touring A/S DSST’s circumferential grooves channel water and slush away from the tire’s footprint and they maintain the tire’s constant road surface contact to provide a safer driving experience.

Run Flat Tire Model

Run flat tires are made with reinforced internal structures which are capable of withstanding the weight of the vehicle and its passengers for a limited temporary performance in case of air pressure loss.

The Grandtrek Touring A/S DSST was designed with Dunlop’s Self-Supporting Runflat system, or DSST for short. This system reinforces the tire’s structure to handle the added weight of the vehicle without allowing the tire to deform. After a puncture or some other damage causes the tire’s air pressure levels to drop, this construction enables the tire to be driven on for 50 miles up to the speed of 50 mph. This prevents the vehicle from being stranded on the side of the road, and allows the driver to safely arrive at a nearby location where they can change or fix the damaged tire.

Due to their reinforced construction, which is heavier, run flat tires cannot be mounted on the same vehicle together with regular tires.

High Driving Comfort Levels

Touring tires offer high levels of driving comfort throughout their performance. They succeed in lowering the road noise levels heard while the tires are in motion.

The Grandtrek Touring A/S DSST was designed with an asymmetric tread design which features a variable pitch sequence. This variable pitch helps lower the road and tread pattern noise levels heard by the passengers during the drive. The pitch manages to negate the sound waves generated with a special sound-cancelling frequency. As a result, the road and tread pattern noise cannot reach the vehicle’s cabin, guaranteeing a comfortable driving experience.

Fuel Efficient Performance

A tire’s fuel efficiency is an important question to consider when purchasing new models. This factor determines the vehicle’s fuel intake and CO2 emissions with the tire’s rolling resistance.

The Grandtrek Touring A/S DSST was molded from a special silica-based tire compound. This compound optimizes the tire’s traction and eases the driving pressure off it, which decreases its rolling resistance. The rolling resistance is the driving pressure which determines the vehicle’s needed fuel intake to keep the tires in motion. The lessened rolling resistance greatly lowers the vehicle’s fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, promoting a fuel efficient and environmentally friendly driving experience.

Controllability and Maneuvering

Tires must have good controllability to ensure a safer driving experience. They offer the only contact between the vehicle and the road surface and, as such, the driving safety depends on their performance. Manufacturers use different tread styles and production technologies to ensure their constant road contact, which boosts the steering responsiveness and the driving stability.

The Grandtrek Touring A/S DSST enhances its controllability with the asymmetric ribbed pattern. The continuous tread block sequences enable the tire to keep a close road contact throughout its performance. In this manner, it significantly enhances the steering responsiveness and the driving stability. As a result, 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.

The optimal shoulder tread block placement upgrades the cornering and maneuvering capability. They heighten the number of biting edges gripping the road surface during the tire’s maneuvering. This maintains the surface contact and optimizes the tire during its performance, guaranteeing a safer driving experience.