When you are shopping for light truck tires, you need to make sure the ones you purchase are durable, reliable and perform the way you want. Light truck tires need better durability, as the vehicles themselves are heavier, while maintaining excellent traction and performing capabilities.
Priority Tire offers the Firestone Destination LE2. This model is one of our best-selling tires that ensures a safer driving experience in all weather. It is easily controlled and it offers a longer-lasting tread life, to guarantee extended usability.
While light truck tires usually do not have treadwear warranties, Firestone stands behind their Destination LE2 model with a 60,000 mile treadwear warranty.
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All Season Performance
Light truck tires are made to be durable and to perform excellently throughout the year. Their all season capability is a big plus as it makes them capable of performing well in dry, wet, and winter weather.
The Destination LE2 promotes great year-round performance. Its compound features high silica levels, which is a molecule that is capable of maintaining a firm grip and exceptional traction even in wet and winter conditions. The silica molecules increase the tire’s grip on slippery road surfaces, guaranteeing an enhanced performance. The model’s symmetric tread design also ensures exceptional traction. It features a moderate zigzag siping detail, which, along with the circumferential and lateral grooves, enhance the tire’s snow traction and grip.
In wet weather, when driving through standing water, it is important that the tread design prevents hydroplaning. Hydroplaning (or aquaplaning) is dangerous as water and slush prevent the tire’s road contact, which causes it to skid and become uncontrollable. The Destination LE2’s tread design features wide circumferential and smaller lateral and wavy grooves that effectively channel water and slush away from the tire’s footprint. In this manner, the tire maintains its road contact at all times and ensures first-rate and safer controllability.
Handling and Controllability
The tire’s footprint and road contact are the aspects that enhance or decrease its controllability as the tires are the only link between the road surface and the vehicle. The better road contact enables you, as the driver, to confidently control and maneuver your vehicle.
The Destination LE2 features an optimized tread design that ensures constant road contact. The notched shoulder blocks and the continuous center ribs work together to increase the tire’s steering responsiveness and driving stability with their enhanced road contact. In this manner, the tire’s steering is quicker and more precise, while the structure is stabilized against the driving pressure affecting the model.
Another element of the tire’s controllability is its braking and cornering capability. The Destination LE2’s notched shoulder blocks increase the number of biting edges that firmly grip the road surface in cornering and maneuvering situations. On the other hand, the tread design’s numerous lateral grooves and its siping detail create friction at the moment of braking to effectively shorten the tire’s braking distance. The better controllability, braking, and cornering ensure a secure performance in all conditions.
Durability
As we have mentioned before, light truck tires need to have exceptional durability. Not only is the vehicle itself heavier, but light trucks are manufactured to carry loads that also put pressure on the tires. As a result, any light truck tire must have great load and driving durability.
The Destination LE2’s internal structure features a polyester cord body and twin steel belts strengthened with spirally wrapped nylon to improve its uniformity and durability. In other words, this prevents the tire’s shape from deforming under the driving and load pressure affecting it. The maintained optimal shape enables the tire to perform to its best capability even with heavier loads as the superb uniformity ensures the constant road contact of the footprint.
Lengthened Tread Life
The tire promotes a longer lasting usability which makes the model more cost efficient. Firestone offers a 60,000 mile treadwear warranty.
The tread design of the Destination LE2 features a closed continuous tread block pattern that enhances the tread life. It allows the driving pressure to be equally spread out across the tread area. The evenly distributed forces of acceleration, cornering and braking prevents irregular tread wear formations along the tire’s surface to ensure an extended tread life and usability.
Comfortable Drive
Road noise and vibrations felt in the vehicle’s cabin can ruin the driving comfort significantly and their constant presence lowers the driving enjoyment.
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