Pirelli P Zero Run Flat Review

High performance summer tires ensure a secure high speed performance in dry and wet weather. These tires ensure excellent summer weather traction and high speed controllability and performance. Run flat tires, on the other hand, offer a limited temporary performance after the tire’s air pressure loss, ensuring a safer driving experience.

Quick Review

• Season: Summer
• Type: High Performance
• Car Type: Passenger
• Run Flat: Yes
• In Stock: Yes

We at Priority Tire offer a long line of high performance summer tires in both run flat and non-run flat variations. Today, we will take a closer look at Pirelli’s P Zero Run Flat to see why this is such an exceptional tire model.

Summer Weather Performance

Summer tires promote a secure wet and dry weather traction and ensure the tire’s safer performance. These models are not suited for winter weather driving, but in warmer temperatures they guarantee first-rate performance and driving safety.

The P Zero Run Flat ensures great summer weather traction. This model combines its ideal tread pattern with a dual compound to increase its grip in dry and wet weather conditions. The special compound has silica and carbon black elements to improve the tire’s dry and wet weather performance. This compound avoids heat build-up along the tread area, ensuring a secure high speed road surface grip. The asymmetric tread design with the ideal tread elements increases the grip on the road surface throughout the drive. These elements increase the number of biting edges gripping the road surface, promoting a secure summer performing capability.

The model’s tread design also features wide circumferential and optimized lateral grooves. This groove pattern works together to channel water away from the footprint, successfully preventing hydroplaning and increasing the wet weather performance. In this manner, the tire maintains its contact with the road surface even when driving through standing water, which guarantees a safer performance in wet conditions.

High Speed Controllability

High performance tires must have excellent controllability. They must guarantee fast steering responsiveness and a secured driving stability to ensure the model’s superb performance in various conditions.

The P Zero Run Flat was molded into an asymmetric tread pattern with three center ribs and an optimal shoulder tread block placement. This combination enables the tire to maintain its contact with the road surface at all times, increasing the steering responsiveness and the driving stability, even during the model’s high speed performance. The steering becomes faster and more precise, while the structure is stabilized against the driving pressure affecting the model.

The optimal road contact also upgrades the high speed performing capability. This, along with the dual compound’s heat resistance, improves the high speed durability. The model’s reinforced construction features strengthened twin steel belts, an aramid cord and a polyamide cord ply structure that manage to maintain the tire’s optimal shape under the high speed driving pressure. As the tire does not deform under the pressure affecting it, it is capable of securely performing at its best high speed capability.

The asymmetric tread design also helps upgrade the high speed maneuvering and braking capabilities. The ideal shoulder tread block placement increases the tire’s cornering and maneuvering ability by increasing the number of biting edges firmly gripping the road surface throughout the tire’s performance. On the other hand, the S-shaped grooves in the tread pattern balance out the pressure distribution along the tread area. This enables the tire to create friction between the tire and the road surface, upgrading the braking ability and decreasing the braking distance.

Longer Tread Life

A longer lasting tread life is always a sought-after feature on tires. A longer tread life guarantees the tire’s lengthened usability and less frequent tire changes. Manufacturers use a wide variety of techniques and technologies to achieve an extended usability.

The P Zero Run Flat also guarantees a longer lasting tread life. The asymmetric tread pattern’s optimal road contact enables the tire to evenly distribute the driving pressure along the tread area. This enables the tire to improve the length of its usability. The equally circulated forces of acceleration, cornering and braking avoids the formation of irregular wear along the tread area. This guarantees the tire’s longer usability as the tread ensures even wear throughout the tire’s lifetime.

Run Flat Model

Run flat models are generally manufactured for vehicles that do not have space for a spare tire. These vehicles are at risk of being stranded on the side of the road in case of a tire failure. As such, run flat tires are made to offer a limited temporary performance to ensure the vehicle’s safe arrival at a near-by location.

The P Zero Run Flat is Pirelli’s run flat model and it was manufactured with Pirelli’s run flat technology. The model’s reinforced sidewalls are capable of withstanding the weight of the vehicle and the passengers when air pressure leaves the tire. This allows the tire to be driven on for 50 miles up to the speed of 50 mph. This prevents the vehicle from being stranded on the side of the road as they can safely arrive at a close by location to fix or change the damaged tire.