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Goodyear Ultra Grip Ice
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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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