Goodyear Ultra Grip winter tire review

Oct. 20, 2010 - PRLog -- Goodyear Ultra Grip radials are Goodyear’s Studdable Snow radials designed for the owners of domestic and imported sedans, vans and light-duty pickup trucks, as well as crossover and sport utility vehicles.

Goodyear Ultra Grip radials use a tread compound made up of a special blend of rubber polymers molded into a directional tread pattern that features high-density, siped independent tread blocks to offer the biting edges necessary to provide traction in loose snow. The intermediate and shoulder tread blocks are molded to accept studs that further enhance traction on hard-packed snow and ice. The tire’s internal structure includes twin steel belts on top of a polyester carcass to combine strength with ride quality.

Ultra Grip winter/snow radials meet the industry's severe snow service requirements and are branded with the mountain/snowflake symbol.

Install Ultra Grip tires in sets of four only.

Vehicles should always be equipped with equivalent tires at all wheel positions. All Ultra Grip radials, due to their exceptional hard-packed snow and ice traction when studded, must be used in sets of four to help ensure proper vehicle control.


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Pinned to accept optional TSMI #13 gold-colored metallic winter/snow studs.


Goodyear's Winter Radial Designed For Performance On Ice

What type of winter performance would you expect from tires designed for use in North America, manufactured in Canada and introduced in the Swiss Alps. If your answer is enhanced snow and ice traction, you'd be right and you'd be describing Goodyear's Ultra Grip Ice winter tires which are designed to provide traction during winter's most severe, icy conditions.

The Ultra Grip Ice features deep, heavily siped independent tread blocks formed into a directional tread design to help dig into snow and bite on ice while sweeping away water and slush to enhance wet traction and resist hydroplaning at above freezing temperatures. The Ultra Grip Ice uses multiple tread block sizes which are strategically aligned around the tire to minimize noise and enhance ride comfort. It features Goodyear's patented Ice Over Winter (IOW) tread compound which layers an ice traction tread compound (enhanced with silica and specialized polymers) layered above a more traditional winter tread compound. As the Ultra Grip Ice wears and the ice traction compound wears away, it reveals the winter tread compound for the remainder of the tire's life. Snow platform indicators (additional wear bars which are higher than the wear bars used to indicate the tire is worn out) connect the tire's shoulder and intermediate blocks identify when this compound transition takes place.

Ultra Grip Ice winter radials meet the industry's severe snow service requirements and are branded with the snowflake-on-the-mountain symbol.

Use Ultra Grip Ice tires on all wheels. The use of snow tires dramatically affects your car's handling. Goodyear strongly recommends the use of snow tires at all four wheel positions, especially in high-performance applications. Because of this, and our experience with similar tires, The Tire Rack will only sell Ultra Grip Ice tires in sets of four.

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