Michelin Pilot Alpin PA4 Review

Winter tires offer superb driving safety levels in winter weather conditions. They come in versatile sizes, made to fit for all types of vehicles. Manufacturers strive to create tire models that not only perform safely in winter conditions, but also offer high speed driving durability and traction.

Here at Priority Tire, we offer a long line of high performance, winter tires for sale. Michelin is one of the brands we stock, which produces exceptional quality winter tires. One such model is the Pilot Alpin PA4, which combined high speed controllability and durability with severe winter weather performance capabilities, ensuring high driving safety levels. This model comes in passenger and crossover vehicle and SUV sizes.

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Winter Tire Performance

Winter tires offer excellent performing traction in winter weather. These tires ensure exceptional driving safety levels even in severe winter situations, ensuring the vehicle’s secure performing capability and power on the ice- and snow-covered road surfaces.

The Pilot Alpin PA4 features a detailed asymmetric tread pattern, which was molded from Michelin’s special Helio compound. The asymmetric tread design, with the high-density StabiliGrip 3D siping pattern and optimally placed tread elements, increases the tire’s grip on the road surface throughout the winter weather performance. On the other hand, the sunflower oil Helio compound maintains the rubber flexibility in versatile weather, which keeps the tire pliable even in colder temperatures. This ensures the tire’s exceptional performing ability in harsh winter conditions.

The tread design’s straight and zigzag circumferential and angled lateral grooves prevent hydroplaning. Hydroplaning is a road hazard which happens on wet and slushy road surface conditions. Water and slush remain trapped on the road surface and cut off the tire’s contact with the tread elements, which causes the vehicle to skid and the driver to lose control over it. The Pilot Alpin PA4, however, resists hydroplaning by channeling water and slush away from the footprint with the ideal groove pattern. As a result, the tire guarantees a secure winter weather driving experience.

Handling and Controllability

Winter tires must have excellent handling in versatile winter weather. Their surface contact has to import the vehicle’s controllability to ensure a secure performing capability. Manufacturers use various technologies to import the steering responsiveness, driving stability and maneuvering capability of their tires.

The Pilot Alpin PA4 was designed with an asymmetric tread design which features a detailed pattern and a flat footprint. This tread enables the tire to closely follow the road surface throughout its performance. The flat footprint maintains the tire’s road contact at all times. The tread design’s stabilized 3D siping pattern increases the tread stability, which optimizes the road contact. In other words, the tire enhances the steering responsiveness and the driving stability. In this manner, the steering becomes faster and more precise in its response to the driver’s instructions, while the structural stability is guaranteed. This combination enables the driver to increase their control over the vehicle.

The tread design also enhances the tire’s maneuvering. Its optimal tread elements boost the cornering and braking capability. The outer shoulder tread block placement enhances the cornering power. These blocks, with their ideal siping pattern, increase the grip on the road surface in versatile conditions, which upgrades the cornering ability with the tread’s heightened biting edges. The tread’s StabiliGrip 3D sipes decrease the braking distance. These sipes stabilize the tread elements and increase the friction created between the tire and the road surface at the moment of braking. This friction shortens the tire’s stopping distance which promotes the vehicle’s safer driving experience.

Enhanced High Speed Durability

Manufacturers have strived to combine winter weather traction and high speed performance in their models. In recent years, there has been an influx of improved and new high performance winter tires on the market. Manufacturers have successfully created first-rate high speed winter tires, which guarantee driving safety, controllability and high speed performance.

The Pilot Alpin PA4 was designed to withstand the pressure of high speed driving, enabling the vehicle to perform at its greatest high speed performance. This is achieved with the reinforced internal structure of the model. Michelin used its FAZ (Filament at Zero) technology and twin steel belt construction to strengthen the tire.

The FAZ technology reinforced the twin steel belts to ensure the tire maintains its ideal tire shape under the high speed pressure affecting the tire throughout its performance. As the stronger construction does not allow the tire to deform during its high speed drive, it allows the model to perform at its best high speed capability with ease. This significantly boosts the tire’s high speed driving safety.

If you’re interested in the Michelin Pilot Alpin PA4 tires, you can find our current stock here.