Weathermate Arctic HW501 Review

Touring winter tires, which are manufactured for passenger vehicles, are one of most popular models on the tire market. They come in versatile sizes, usually made to fit different vehicle models and they guarantee a secure winter weather driving experience for the vehicles they are mounted on.

Priority Tire offers various touring, winter tires for sale for passenger vehicles. One such model is the Arctic HW501 by Weathermate. This model combines excellent winter traction with great controllability, a longer tread life and optimized fuel efficiency levels. This guarantees the tire’s safer winter weather performance.

Winter Weather Performance

Tires with winter weather performing capability improve their driving safety greatly. They use their tread design and compound to ensure the model’s first-rate performance in such weather.

The Arctic HW501 used the detailed symmetric tread pattern to boost the winter weather traction. The silica-infused winter compound and the high-density siping pattern of the tread upgrade the cold temperature, ice and snow gripping ability. The compound’s silica elements enable the tire to improve the rubber flexibility in various conditions, while the tread elements increase the grip on the ice- and snow-covered road surfaces at the moment of braking. As a result, the tire ensures the model’s excellent performing ability.

The tread design also features an optimal groove pattern. The circumferential and lateral grooves prevent hydroplaning by dispersing water and slush from below the footprint. Hydroplaning is a dangerous driving condition which happens when water and slush located on the road surface cut off the tire’s surface contact. By dispersing water and slush from the footprint, the tire is able to securely perform in various weather without the danger of hydroplaning in the process.

Handling and Controllability

Winter tires still have to offer excellent controllability, even when driving on ice- and snow-covered road surfaces. These tread elements improve the grip the tire has on the road surface which enhances the controllability.

The Arctic HW501 features an optimizing ribbed tread design which closely follows the road surface throughout the tire’s performance. This upgrades 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 against the driving pressure that affects the model. This results in the model’s ideal controllability as the better road contact ensures the driver’s control over the vehicle at all times.

The tread design also boosts the maneuvering ability. The tread’s high-density siping detail boosts the grip on the road surface, which creates friction at the moment of braking. This friction enables the tire’s decreased braking distance and better braking capability. The optimal shoulder block pattern enhances the number of biting edges gripping the road surface during maneuvering. This allows the tire to upgrade the cornering and maneuvering ability and power in all winter weather conditions.

Fuel-Efficient Performance

A tire is fuel efficient if it manages to minimize the vehicle’s fuel consumption levels by reducing its rolling resistance. This can be achieved with versatile manufacturing designs and technologies, but all of them have the same outcome: a fuel conscious driving experience.

The Arctic HW501 combines its tread design and silica-based winter compound to improve the winter weather traction. The stronger traction eases the driving pressure off the tire, minimizing the model’s rolling resistance in the process. By lowering the rolling resistance, the tire manages to decrease the vehicle’s fuel consumption and CO2 emission levels greatly. This results in a fuel efficient and environmentally friendly performance, which improves the tire’s overall performing capability.

Longer-Lasting Tread Life

Winter tires which provide a lengthened usability are rare on the tire market, even nowadays. These models combine their tread design and tire compound to lengthen the life of their tread area by preventing premature and irregular wear formations.

The Arctic HW501is a tire model which utilizes its symmetric tread design and durable silica compound to improve its service life. The symmetric pattern with the high siping density enables the tire to evenly distribute the driving pressure along the tread area. The equally spread out forces of acceleration, cornering and braking actively avoids irregular wear formations across the tread area. The durable silica compound is wear-resistant, which significantly slows the tread wear rate down while the tires are in motion. This combination enables the tire’s elongated usability and tread life, boosting the model’s performing ability.

If you’re interested in the Weathermate Arctic HW501 you can find our current stock here.