Falken Ziex ZE950 A/S Review

Equipping your performance vehicle with the correct tire set is of the utmost importance. It does not matter whether you drive a passenger car, a crossover or an SUV, if you like high speed driving, you need to purchase tires that are capable of handling the high speed pressure.

Here at Priority Tire, we offer a wide range of performance and high performance tires at affordable prices. One of our most popular models is Falken’s Ziex ZE950 A/S. This is an all season model, which comes with H, V and W speed ratings to match the needs of your vehicle. Falken offers a long line-up of different sizes of this model.

The Ziex ZE950 A/S guarantees excellent all weather traction, a secure high speed performance, first-rate controllability and a longer lasting tread life. Most high speed tires do not have treadwear warranties, but Falken is confident in its Ziex ZE950 A/S. The manufacturer offers a 45,000 mile treadwear warranty with the W speed rated sizes and a 65,000 mile warranty with H and V speed rated sizes.

High Speed Controllability

Falken put a lot of thought into the design and manufacture of the Ziex ZE950 A/S. It utilized a number of technologies and patterns to enhance its high speed and all weather controllability. The tread design and the special Silica compound work together to improve the driver’s control over the tires.

The model features the Dynamic Range Technology, or DRT for short, which enables the tire’s year round performance. This technology ensures the tire’s constant road contact, which, along with the asymmetric tread’s optimal road contact enhances the steering responsiveness and driving stability. The constantly maintained road contact boosts the tire’s response time and accuracy to the driver’s steering instructions, while it stabilizes the structure against the driving pressure affecting the model.

Furthermore, the tread design’s details manage to improve the braking and cornering abilities significantly. The tread pattern’s 3D canyon sipes upgrade the braking capability. These sipes increase the number of biting edges gripping the road surface during the drive. They also create friction at the moment of braking between the road surface and the tire, which shortens the braking distance significantly. The asymmetric tread’s outer shoulder pattern boosts the cornering and maneuvering ability. The wider shoulder enlarges the road contact and maintains the tire’s contact with the road surface to guarantee a secure cornering capability.

Lengthened Tread Life

High performance tires tend to have a faster tread wear rate, which decreases the number of miles they can be driven for. Manufacturers use a variety of technologies and designs to lengthen the tread lives of their models. A longer lasting tread life is more desired as it increases the tire’s usability and makes the model more cost efficient in the long run.

The Ziex ZE950 A/S comes with a 45-65,000 mile warranty. It uses its Dynamic Range Technology to slow the tread wear rate down with the silica-infused tire compound. The asymmetric tread design also helps lengthen the tread life. It optimizes the tire’s road contact, which allows it to evenly spread the forces of acceleration, cornering and braking out across the tread area. The equally circulated driving pressure actively avoids uneven tread wear formations, which extends the tread life and the tire’s usability.

All Weather Performance

Falken provides a true all season tire with the Ziex ZE950 A/S. It combines its compound and tread pattern to increase the tire’s dry, wet and winter weather gripping capability.

The Dynamic Range Technology’s silica-enhanced compound maintains the rubber flexibility even in colder temperatures and it effectively resists weather damage harming the tire. Furthermore, the asymmetric tread design improves the tire’s year round performing capability. Apart from the 3D canyon sipes, the tread features wide angled tread slots and sculptured groove walls that improve the ice and snow traction. The wide angled tread slots allow snow to pack into the tire center to boost the snow on snow traction, while the sculptured groove walls upgrade the model’s grip on snow- and ice-covered road surfaces.

The tread design’s sculptured groove walls and wide circumferential grooves also manage to prevent hydroplaning in wet and winter weather. Hydroplaning is a road hazard that easily causes accidents as the water and slush located on the road prevent the tire’s road contact. The optimized groove design and pattern of the Ziex ZE950 A/S disperses water and slush from below the tire’s footprint and guarantees a constant road contact to improve the driving safety.

If you are interested in Falken Ziex ZE950 A/S tires, you can find the stock we currently have.