Nokian WR C3 Review

Winter tires promote a secure winter weather performance. They utilize their tread design and winter compound to achieve the needed traction in such conditions. However, there are winter tires that perform above the needed requirements. These tires combine their load and driving durability to ensure high driving safety levels at all times.

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Quick Review

• Season: Winter
• Type: Highway
• Car Type: Commercial
• Run Flat: NO
• In Stock: Yes (Check Price)

Priority Tire offers a wide range of durable winter tires for sale. One of our most popular models is the Nokian WR C3, which increases the winter traction, boosts the controllability, heightens the durability and guarantees a fuel efficient drive. Furthermore, this tire also sports tread wear indicators which make the driving experience safer.

Winter Weather Performance

Such tires promote excellent winter weather traction. They use their tread design and winter compound to boost their grip on the winter weather road surface. As a result, winter weather tire models guarantee a safer driving experience in severe winter conditions, which earned their three mountain peak and snowflake symbol.

The WR C3 upgrades the winter weather traction with the durable winter compound and the directional tread design. They work together to boost the grip on ice- and snow-covered road surfaces. The Clinch rubber compound maintains its rubber flexibility in colder and freezing temperatures. This compound enables the tire to upgrade the grip on the road surface throughout its performance. The detailed directional pattern with the high-density siping design enhances the surface grip with the high number of biting edges gripping the road surface, even when ice or snow covers it. This combination guarantees the tire’s secure performance in all winter weather conditions.

The tread design’s detailed groove design helps improve the hydroplaning resistance. The tread’s zigzag circumferential grooves disperse water and slush from below the footprint, keeping the tire’s surface contact throughout the drive. In this manner, the tire improves the wet and slushy weather driving safety and it actively avoids hydroplaning in such conditions.

Enhanced Controllability and Handling

Winter tires must provide great controllability in versatile winter weather conditions. Even when driving on ice- and snow-covered road surface conditions, these tires must promote a safer and secure drive throughout their lifetime.

The WR C3 uses its tread design to maintain its surface contact. The continuous center rib of the tread maintains the model’s optimal surface contact at all times, which boosts the steering responsiveness and the driving stability. This results in the model’s ideal surface contact throughout the drive. The steering, in this manner, becomes faster and more precise in its response to the driver’s commands, while the structural stability is secured by reinforcing the construction. These tires ensure the driver’s full control over the vehicle, maintaining high driving safety levels and promoting a secure performance.

The tire also features a reinforced steel belt internal structure. Nokian’s Aramid Sidewall Technology strengthens the tire’s construction. In this manner, the construction sports reinforced and puncture-resistant aramid fibers which upgrade the sidewalls strength and upgrade the load durability and the damage resistance. As a result, the tire is resistant to impact damage, while also avoiding cuts and punctures which may shorten the tire’s usability. The durable construction boosts the load and driving durability. It maintains the ideal tire shape under the load and driving pressure affecting the model, which significantly upgrades the load carrying capacity.

Tread Wear Indicators

Tires which features tread wear indicators along their tread area provide a visual representation of the tread wear manner, the tread depth and the traction provided by the tire. They ensure a safer driving experience as they ensure that a tire is not driven on once its traction is worn out.

The WR C3 was designed with the Driving Safety Indicators and the Winter Safety Indicators.

The Driving Safety Indicators, or DSI for short, follows the tread wear rate of the tire. The DSI placed numbers along the tread’s center rib which correspond with the tread depth in 32nds of an inch. As the tire wears out, the numbers disappear one by one. By wearing out, the numbers visually portray the tread wear depth left on the tire throughout its performance. This notifies the driver when the tire is about to lose its traction which prevents the tire from being driven on in a worn-out state.

The tread’s Winter Safety Indicators (WSI) places a snowflake symbol along the tread area on different places. This snowflake symbolizes the tire’s winter weather driving safety. As long as it is visible on the tread area, the tire can be safely used in winter weather conditions. These snowflakes ensure that the tire is not used once it loses its winter traction. Winter tires tend to lose their traction at higher tread depths, and the WSI ensures that the tire is not used in winter conditions once its winter grip diminishes.

Fuel-Efficient Performance

The fuel efficiency of a tire determines its performing cost. When a tire lowers a vehicle’s fuel consumption levels, it significantly lessens the cost spent on fuel during the vehicle’s performance. As a result, fuel efficient tires are more desirable on the tire market and they have maintained their popularity throughout the years.

The WR C3 is one such tire model. The special Clinch compound upgrades the overall winter traction. This model utilizes its exceptional winter weather traction to lower the pressure affecting its road surface contact area during the drive. In this manner, the tire reduces its rolling resistance, which is the pressure affecting the tire which determines the vehicle’s needed fuel intake to keep the tires in motion. As the tire minimizes its rolling resistance, if effectively reduces the vehicle’s fuel consumption and CO2 emission levels. This tire guarantees a fuel efficient and environmentally conscious driving experience.

• Winter weather traction
• Enhanced load durability
• Fuel efficient performance
• Tread wear indicators

Check available sizes for Nokian WR C3 at Priority Tire.