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Goodyear Ultra Grip Winter Review

Posted by Agota Szabo on Jan 22nd 2020

Goodyear Ultra Grip Winter Review

Goodyear Ultra Grip Winter Review

Posted by Agota Szabo at Priority Tire on Jan 22nd 2020

Winter tires come in all shapes and sizes. Models which are manufactured for passenger vehicles and SUVs are the most numerous on the tire market. However, among the wide range of versatile tire models that the market offers, there are occasional gems which ensure your vehicle’s safer winter weather performance.

One such model is the Ultra Grip Winter manufactured by Goodyear. Here at Priority Tire, we offer this model for sale in a vast range of sizes, made to fit both passenger vehicles and SUVs. This tire model promotes exceptional winter weather traction and great controllability even in severe winter weather.

WINTER WEATHER PERFORMANCE

Winter weather traction

Winter tires utilize their tread design and optimal tire compound to enhance their winter weather grip on the road surface. This combination ensures its performance in versatile winter conditions, increasing the driving safety levels throughout the tire’s performance.

The Ultra Grip Winter features a detailed directional tread pattern which was molded from a durable winter weather compound to enhance the winter weather traction. The directional tread’s multiple siping detail increases the number of biting edges gripping the road surface during its performance. The durable tire compound maintains the rubber flexibility and keeps the tire pliable in colder temperatures. This results in the compound’s durability in various conditions throughout the model’s winter performance.

Tires which can conquer severe winter conditions are marked by the three mountain peak and snowflake symbol. This symbol notes the tire’s performing ability in winter weather situations, including driving on ice- and snow-covered road surfaces. Furthermore, the Ultra Grip Winter is pinned for studs. Metal or rubber studs can be added to the tread area to increase the ice and snow gripping power of the tire.

The tread’s angled lateral and optimized circumferential grooves actively prevent hydroplaning. These tread elements enhance the water and slush dispersing ability and power, enabling the tire actively resist hydroplaning in the process. This further improves the wet and winter traction guaranteeing the tire’s safer performing ability.

CONTROLLABILITY AND HANDLING

Tires form the only link between the vehicle and the road surface. As a result, they greatly affect the vehicle’s controllability. A tire’s optimal road contact can make or break its controllability, which determines the vehicle’s driving safety levels.

The directional tread design of the Ultra Grip Winter closely follows the road surface throughout the tire’s performance. This enables the tire to upgrade the steering responsiveness and the driving stability. In other words, 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 tire. This results in the model’s optimal handling, boosting the winter weather controllability.

UPGRADED MANEUVERING AND BRAKING

Maneuvering and braking

Winter tires must also improve their cornering and braking abilities to ensure a safer driving experience. They utilize their tread design and optimal tire compound to achieve a safer maneuvering capability in versatile weather.

The Ultra Grip Winter’s tread pattern features larger shoulder tread blocks which closely follow the road surface throughout the tire’s performance. This better road contact enables the model to increase the number of biting edges gripping the road surface during the model’s maneuvering. The enhanced surface grip increases the tire’s ideal cornering ability, boosting the winter weather maneuvering power.

The tread design also works together with the optimal tire shape and the durable compound to boost the braking power. The directional tread design with the high-density siping detail, the durable winter compound and the optimal tire shape’s close surface contact work together to create friction between the tire and the road surface at the moment of braking. This significantly shortens the braking distance by upgrading the braking capability, which guarantees a safer driving experience.

If you’re interested in purchasing the Goodyear Ultra Grip Winter tires, you can find our current stock here.

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