Yokohama Avid Touring-S Review

A comfortable drive isn’t just the luxury of passenger tires. SUVs and light trucks can also offer driving comfort, even if their drive is a bit more rugged, provided they are equipped with the right touring tires. Priority Tire offers a wide range of SUV and light truck fitments to ensure a first-rate driving experience no matter your vehicle. One of our best-selling models is Yokohama’s AVID Touring-S.

This model offers excellent all weather traction, a longer lasting service life, reliable handling and superb driving comfort to provide you with a superb driving experience. Driving your SUV or light truck the AVID Touring-S guarantees a secure performance all year.

Lengthened Service Life

The goal of all tire manufacturers is to provide the tire market with durable tires, as a longer lasting tread life is one of the main aspects drivers look at when purchasing new tire sets.

The AVID Touring-S comes with an astounding 65,000 mile treadwear warranty, which is on the higher end of the spectrum for light truck tires. With this tire, you are saving cost in the long run, as the durable tread ensures a longer lasting service life.

The tire was manufactured with Yokohama’s Tri-Plex tread compound which, along with the symmetric tread design, promotes a longer lasting tread life. The compound is durable and wear-resistant, which decreases the tread wear rate significantly. On the other hand, the symmetric tread design manages to evenly distribute the forces of acceleration, cornering and braking across the tread area. This equal distribution of the driving pressure actively prevents the formation of irregular tread wear. The slower tread wear rate and the ensured even wear pattern provide a lengthened tread life and usability.

All Weather Performance

The most sought-after tires are all season models. They offer good traction in all weather and maintain their traction even in slippery winter weather road conditions. They save the cost of having to buy and mount different tires in summer and winter months as they can be used throughout the year.

You can rest assured with the AVID Touring-S, as its special Tri-Plex tire compound and optimized symmetric tread design work together to provide you with a secure year round performance.

The special Tri-Plex compound is resistant to weather damage. In other words, it is capable of withstanding the heat of summer and the low temperatures of winter driving. Furthermore, it ensures traction throughout the year, without losing its flexibility in winter.

The tread’s intermediate tread blocks and solid center rib improve the road contact, which offers firm road grip in dry, wet and winter weather. The special symmetric tread design features Cross Traction sipes that increase the number of biting edges on ice- and snow-covered road surfaces. Another dangerous road hazard this model conquers is hydroplaning. The Tapered Rain Channels and the circumferential grooves actively disperse water and slush from below the tire’s footprint to prevent hydroplaning and ensure a secure all weather driving experience.

Handling and Maneuvering

The better the tires controllability is, the safer the driving experience will be. The improved steering response and driving stability enable the driver to confidently control the vehicle throughout the year.

The AVID Touring-S utilizes its tread design and internal structure to guarantee first-rate controllability. The tread design features a double solid continuous center rib that maintains the tires’ road contact at all times. This enhances the steering response time and accuracy to the driver’s instructions. The model was manufactured with Yokohama’s Luxury Sidewall Construction, which uses a tapered hard rubber insert to strengthen the sidewalls, which stabilizes the tire against the driving pressure affecting it.

The symmetric tread design’s optimal shoulder tread block placement improves the model’s cornering capability. The tread blocks heighten the number of biting edges that firmly grip the road surface during the drive. This boosts the cornering and maneuvering capability as the tire maintains its road contact constantly.

Comfortable Performance

Road vibrations felt and road noise heard in the vehicle’s cabin can ruin the driving enjoyment. To prevent this, touring tires specialize in decreasing such vibrations and noise.

The AVID Touring-S features a Silent Shoulder design and a twin rail stability rib on its symmetric tread design. The Silent Shoulder design features variable tread block sizes that create a pitch sequence. This pitch sequence manages to negate the road noise that’s generated with a sound frequency. The twin rail stability rib maintains its road contact at all times, channeling the airwaves from the tire’s footprint, without allowing them to come into contact with the tread element.

The model’s unique Luxury Sidewall Construction prevents the deformation of the tire’s structure, allowing the tire to closely follow the road surface. This structure uses a tapered hard rubber insert to absorb the shock of driving while the tires are in motion. In this manner, the tire lowers the road vibrations felt in the vehicle’s cabin, guaranteeing a comfortable driving experience.

If you are interested in Yokohama AVID Touring-S tires, you can find the stock we currently have.