Firestone Winterforce 2 UV Review

Quick Review

Winter tires made for crossover vehicles and SUVs need to ensure a secure performance. These tires must optimize the vehicle’s controllability, ensure winter weather traction and offer a stronger construction. This combination greatly upgrades the winter weather driving safety levels.

Here at Priority Tire, we offer a wide range of versatile winter tires for sale for crossover vehicles and SUVs. One such tire is Firestone’s Winterforce 2 UV model. This tire combines its tread design and internal structure to guarantee high driving comfort levels, while upgrading the winter traction and controllability. It does not forget the load affecting the tires, as it provides a reinforced internal construction.

Winter Weather Traction

Winter tires are created to combat harsh winter weather conditions and to ensure a safer performance in such weather situations. These tires are marked with the three mountain peak and snowflake symbol, indicating their capability of performing in severe winter conditions. Manufacturers combine the tread design and the tire compound to enhance the winter weather grip of their tire models.

The Winterforce 2 UV utilizes its detailed directional tread design and cold temperature compound to boost the winter weather grip on the road surface. The directional pattern’s open shoulder slots, wide grooves and high-density siping design work together to enhance the grip on the ice- and snow-covered road surfaces. These tread elements increase the number of biting edges gripping the road surface in winter weather, ensuring the tire’s surface contact and performing capability in such situations. The winter compound, on the other hand, maintains the rubber flexibility in colder temperatures. This allows the compound to keep the tire pliable in severely cold temperatures, without compromising its performing ability.

The tread design also avoids hydroplaning. Hydroplaning is a dangerous road hazard, which happens when water and slush located on the road surface cut off the tire’s surface contact. In these cases the tire is no longer in contact with the road surface, which causes the vehicle to skid as the driver loses control over it. The Winterforce 2 UV uses its straight and zigzag circumferential and angled lateral grooves to channel said water and slush away from the footprint, maintaining the ideal surface contact throughout the model’s performance. This significantly improves the wet and slushy weather traction, offering a safer driving experience.

Controllability and Maneuvering

Tires must offer precise controllability to the vehicle. As they are the only part of the vehicle that is in contact with the road surface, their performance helps determine the vehicle’s handling during the drive. 

The Winterforce 2 UV was designed with a directional tread pattern. The tread’s continuous center rib maintains the model’s surface contact throughout its performance, which helps improve the steering responsiveness and the driving stability. In this manner, the steering is quicker and more accurate in its responsiveness, while the structural stability is guaranteed against the driving pressure affecting the tire. This combination ensures the driver’s constant control over the vehicle, making its handling easier even in severe winter weather conditions.

The tread design also boosts the braking capability. The directional tread’s high-density siping pattern upgrades the friction between the road surface and the model’s footprint at the moment of braking. This generated friction significantly shortens the braking distance as it greatly boosts the braking power. The decreased stopping distance guarantees a secure performing and driving capability as it heightens the safety levels.

Reinforced Durability

ires manufactured for crossover vehicles and SUVs must withstand heavier loads than passenger vehicle models. These models are manufactured with stronger structures to maintain their ideal shape at all times.

The Winterforce 2 UV features a reinforced twin steel belt construction that reinforces the tire against the driving and load pressure. This enables the tire to safely carry and withstand heavy loads with ease, without allowing the shape to deform under the pressure. The result is the tire’s higher load capacity, which improves the tire’s load carrying and withstanding ability.

The stronger construction also maintains the ideal tire shape under the speed and pressure affecting the model. In other words, the tire will not deform due to the driving pressure affecting the tire during its performance.

High Driving Comfort Levels

Road vibrations felt in the vehicle’s cabin can easily dampen the comfort levels during the tires’ performance. As a result, manufacturers strive to minimize the vibrations with versatile technologies, to ensure an enjoyable drive throughout the tire’s lifetime.

The Winterforce 2 UV combines its directional tread pattern and reinforced internal structure to optimize the tire’s performance. The stronger internal structure maintains the ideal tire shape under the load and driving pressure affecting the model. This, along with the directional pattern’s constant surface contact, enables the model to closely follow the road at all times. The constant road contact allows the model to absorb the shock of driving, minimizing the road vibrations felt in the vehicle’s cabin while the tires are in motion. In this manner, road disturbances cannot dampen the passengers’ driving enjoyment, guaranteeing a comfortable driving experience.