Falken Espia EPZ II Review

Winter tires come in various sizes. Studless tires made for passenger vehicles offer secure driving experience in all winter weather to ensure the vehicle’s safer performing ability. Such tires utilize their detailed tread pattern and optimal compound to guarantee a secure driving experience.

Priority Tire offers a wide range of various winter tires for sale, but one of our best-selling models is the Falken Espia EPZ II. This tire guarantees exceptional winter traction, great controllability and even a longer lasting tread life, which improves its performing capability in harsher winter weather.

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Winter Weather Performance

Studless winter tires rely on their tread design and winter compound to improve their severe winter weather performing abilities. They optimize the tread design to increase the surface grip, while they ensure the excellent rubber flexibility in versatile weather conditions.

The Espia EPZ II was manufactured from a silica-infused compound and molded into an asymmetric tread design. The tread’s high siping density enhances the number of biting edges gripping the ice- and snow-covered road surface throughout their performance. This enables the tire to securely increase the winter weather traction and driving safety. The compound with the high-silica elements maintains the rubber flexibility in colder temperatures, which keeps the tire pliable in versatile conditions. Falken added special snow grooves into the design to further improve the snow-on-snow grip. These wide lateral grooves pack snow into the tread area to increase the grip on snow-covered surface conditions and to ensure the tire’s forward motion at all times.

The tread design also avoids hydroplaning. The straight and zigzag circumferential grooves actively prevent hydroplaning. Hydroplaning is a dangerous road hazard which causes the vehicle to skid when the water and slush located on the road surface cuts the tire’s contact off. In this manner, the tread grooves must keep the footprint clean throughout the model’s performance. These tread grooves channel water and slush away from the footprint to maintain the tire’s surface contact in wet and slippery conditions.

Handling and Controllability

Winter tires offer better grip on the road surface throughout their lifetime, which enhances their handling and maneuvering. Their excellent surface contact ensures the high driving safety levels guaranteed while the tires are in motion.

The Espia EPZ II improves the controllability with the tread design. The tread’s optimal rib placement ensures a close surface contact at all times, even on ice- and snow-covered surfaces, which boosts the steering responsiveness and the driving stability. As a result, the tire is 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 guarantees the driver’s full control over the vehicle throughout its performance.

The tread design also helps increase the maneuvering and braking ability. The tread’s larger outer shoulder area, with the larger block placement increases the maneuvering ability. These blocks increase the cornering and maneuvering ability and power with the additional biting edges they provide. The tread’s detailed siping pattern, on the other hand, upgrades the braking capability. These sipes create friction between the tire and the road surface, significantly shortening the braking distance with the strengthened braking power.

Longer-Lasting Tread Life

Even with winter tires the length of their tread life is important. This determines its performing ability as winter tires lose their traction at higher treads than all season models. With winter tires their surface gripping ability is an important feature to ensure a secure forward motion at all times.

The Espia EPZ II manages to lengthen its usability with the ideal tread design and the durable compound. The silica-infused compound contains wear-resistant rubber materials that slow the tread wear rate down significantly. The tread design, on the other hand, optimizes the tire’s surface contact throughout the drive. In this manner, the model is able to evenly distribute the driving pressure along the tread area. The equally spread out forces of acceleration, cornering and braking actively avoids irregular wear formations on the tire’s surface. The ensured slower and even wear significantly lengthens the tread life and the model’s service life, promoting an improved cost-efficiency.

If you’re interested in purchasing the Falken Espia EPZ II tires, you can find our current stock here.