Mastercraft Glacier-Grip II Reviews

Winter tires promote excellent ice and snow traction throughout their performance. They need to ensure the driving safety of the vehicle they are mounted on. These tires improve winter grip and the vehicle’s controllability in such conditions with ease, as they enhance the model’s performing capability and power.

Priority Tire offers excellent winter traction for various vehicles. An excellent passenger tire we offer for sale is the Mastercraft Glacier-Grip II, which combines first-rate winter traction and exceptional controllability, while also providing a longer lasting usability and high driving comfort levels throughout its performance.

Winter Weather Traction

Winter tires provide exceptional cold temperature traction to ensure high driving safety levels throughout the drive. They utilize their tread pattern and winter compound to boost the winter weather traction and performing capability.

The Glacier-Grip II improves the winter weather traction by combining its winter traction and the symmetric ribbed pattern. The durable compound keeps the rubber flexibility in various temperatures, including its severe winter conditions. The tread features a high density zigzag siping detail and a variable sipe density which boost the grip on the ice- and snow-covered road surface conditions. As a result, the tire enhances the surface grip and boosts the driving safety levels while the tires are in motion.

The optimal tread design features notched circumferential and wider lateral grooves which work together to boost the hydroplaning resistance. Hydroplaning is a road hazard which allows water and slush stuck on the road surface to cut off the tire’s surface contact. By channeling the water and slush away from the tire’s footprint, the tire manages to keep the surface contact and to further improve the wet and winter grip. In this manner, the tire guarantees a safer driving experience in all winter weather conditions.

High Driving Comfort Levels

A quiet drive is usually not a feature attributed to winter tires. Their detailed tread design is not suited to minimize the road and tread pattern noise heard in the vehicle’s cabin. However, more and more winter tires offering a comfortable drive are appearing on the tire market.

The Glacier-Grip II utilizes its special tread design to reduce the road noise levels heard in the vehicle’s cabin. This tread is optimized to lower the road noise while the tires are in motion. The wide circumferential grooves and the zigzag tread block edges channel the airwaves through the footprint, bouncing them off the groove walls and diminishing their volume. In this manner, the road and tread pattern noise are not generated during the drive. This results in a quiet and comfortable driving experience as the road noise does not reach the vehicle’s cabin.

Handling and Maneuvering

Winter tires need to be easily controlled even when driving on ice- and snow-covered road surfaces. Their road contact must improve the steering responsiveness and the driving stability to boost the dry, wet and winter handling.

The tread design’s close and constant road contact upgrades the steering responsiveness and the driving stability. By maintaining the road surface contact at all times, the tire manages to improve the steering response time and accuracy to the driver’s instructions, while it secures the structural stability throughout the performance. The tread design also enables the tire to safely perform while maintaining its controllability even when snow packs between the tread elements. When this happens, the snow blocks the tire’s surface contact, but the optimal tread design uses its disadvantage to improve the snow-on-snow traction, further improving the tire’s overall handling.

The Glacier-Grip II’s tread design also improves the maneuvering. The optimal shoulder block sequence increases the number of biting edges gripping the road and tread pattern noise generated while the tires are in motion. These sipes boost the cornering ability and power by further improving the driving safety levels during the drive. This combination enhances the tire’s winter weather maneuvering and cornering safety.

Longer-Lasting Tread Life

Winter tires usually do not offer longer lasting usability. Their compound and tread design focus on winter traction and driving safety, and not on extending the model’s service life. However, manufacturers have started paying more attention to the length of the tread life. By extending the model’s usability, they make it more desirable on the tire market.

The Mastercraft Glacier-Grip II features variable depth sipes which optimize the tread wear rate. These sipes improve the length of the tread life by preventing uneven wear. The siping pattern enables the tire to evenly distribute the driving pressure across the tread area. The equally spread out forces of acceleration, cornering and braking avoids irregular wear formations across the tread area.

These sipes are visible on the tread for a longer period of time. Their different depth ensures their visibility as the tread wears out. This enables the tire to lengthen the tread life and usability, as the tire maintains its traction throughout its lifetime and it does not lose the surface grip with treadwear. This combination ensures the tire’s excellent lengthened tread life and usability.