General Grabber HTS 60 Review

Highway tires need to offer first-rate durability and controllability throughout the tire’s performance. Their reinforced structure, optimized all weather traction and lengthened tread life make them suitable to be mounted on vehicles needing a little extra load durability, such as SUVs and light trucks.

Priority Tire offers a wide range of highway terrain tires in its line-up. One of our most popular models is General’s Grabber HTS 60, which promotes a longer tread life, all weather traction, a fuel efficient performance and excellent controllability.

Furthermore, the model comes with a 50-65,000 mile treadwear warranty. The H speed rated sizes get a 50,000 mile warranty, while the S and T speed rated sizes receive a 65,000 mile treadwear warranty.

All Weather Performance

Most highway tires are manufactured to withstand all weather. Their tread design and compound materials work together to ensure the model’s performance throughout the year.

The Grabber HTS 60 is one such tire. It utilizes its detailed symmetric ribbed tread pattern, with the optimal siping detail, to increase its dry, wet and winter weather traction. The siping detail increases the number of biting edges gripping the road surface all year round. The all season compound manages to maintain its flexibility throughout the year, from the heat of summer to colder winter weather temperatures. This combination ensures a secure performing capability even on demanding highway terrains.

The tread design also features wide circumferential grooves that channel water from the footprint. They eliminate water and slush from below the tire’s footprint when driving in wet and winter weather. As a result, the tire avoids dangerous hydroplaning, which causes the vehicle to skid when standing water and slush cut off its contact with the road surface.

Controllability and Maneuvering

As tires are the only link between the road surface and the vehicle, they must provide good controllability to ensure a secure driving experience. The better road contact increases the steering responsiveness and driving stability and ensures the driver’s full control over the vehicle.

The ribbed pattern of the Grabber HTS 60 optimizes the road contact and boosts the model’s controllability and maneuvering. The ribbed symmetric design features a continuous center rib that closely follows the road surface at all times. This increases the steering responsiveness and driving stability. 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. In this manner, the driver can confidently control the vehicle as the tires are more responsive with their optimized road contact.

The model’s shoulder pattern features large shoulder tread blocks that increase the number of biting edges gripping the road surface. The optimal siping detail of the shoulder blocks heighten the number of biting edges gripping the road surface, which improves the cornering capability. The enhanced cornering and maneuvering capability allow the tire’s full performance as it maintains the road contact at all times.

Fuel Efficiency

A fuel efficient model means the tire performs in a manner that offers a lowered rolling resistance and CO2 emissions on the vehicle’s part. Its tread design and internal structure work together decrease the pressure affecting the model, in other words, the rolling resistance. The lower the rolling resistance is, the more fuel efficient the tire’s performance becomes.

The rolling resistance is the external driving pressure affecting the model during the drive, which determines the amount of energy needed to maintain the tire’s motion. The Grabber HTS 60 manages to decrease the rolling resistance by utilizing the optimal tread design and the stronger internal structure that ease the pressure off the tire. The lowered rolling resistance in turn decreases the vehicle’s fuel consumption and CO2 emissions greatly. In this manner, the tire’s performance is more fuel efficient and environmentally friendly.

Longer Tread Life

A lengthened tread life of one of the most sought-after features of a tire. Manufacturers strive to extend the tread life of their models to ensure a longer lasting usability and performance.

The Grabber HTS 60 guarantees an even tread wear rate throughout the tire’s lifetime. General utilized two of its technologies to guarantee this. The special StabiliTread technology maximizes the tire’s footprint and uses a stronger compound and a reinforced structure to stabilize the tread elements and avoids tread flexing. The stable tread elements do not shift around, which allows the tire to evenly distribute the driving pressure along the tread area. The equally spread out forces of acceleration, cornering, and braking lengthens the tread life and tire usability by preventing the formation of irregular tread wear across the tread area.

The tread area’s stability is further reinforced with the Duragen technology’s ultra-high strength internal structure that secures the tire’s construction. The increased stability enhances the model’s durability and ensures an even distribution of the driving and load pressure affecting the model.

Comfortable Performance

Driving comfort is also an important feature of the model. They guarantee the enjoyment of the passengers by lowering the road noise heard and vibration levels felt in the vehicle’s cabin.

General manufactured the Grabber HTS 60 with the Comfort Balance Tread Cushioning System that manages to decrease the road noise and vibrations. This system optimization allows the tire to absorb the shock of driving, which decreases the road vibrations felt in the vehicle’s cabin while the tires are in motion.

The model’s tread design features two Sound Barrier Ribs on the tire’s shoulders. These ribs prevent airwaves from entering the footprint and coming into contact with the tread elements. In this manner, the road and tread pattern noise are not generated and the tire ensures a quiet performance all year.

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