Summer tires for SUV must something be good in the first place on the road in wet conditions and in the dry. But also in the area they may not surrender.
The speed indexes of the test candidates revealed one already: with the letter Y (up to 300 km/h;) (Bridgestone, Dunlop, Goodyear and Michelin) and W (up to 270 km/h;) (Continental, Pirelli and Vredestein) nothing also is this rubber to dredge as an a heavy off-road vehicle through the debris.
These are all street-oriented tires, as strong SUV they belong to the standard equipment. The tested dimension 255 / 55 R 18 W / Y is found on many of them. Not only the serving as test car Mercedes ML and his brothers, G and GL wear them, but also BMW X 5, Mitsubishi Pajero, Kia Sorento, Porsche Cayenne, Range Rover Sport, Volvo XC 90 and VW Touareg.
Who has such a car, would not fail of course, if there is no road. Key: it is dry. For the delicate road profiles to report nothing have in slippery mud. On gravel and they show good results, with continental, Pirelli and Toyo from the other field to sell sand. The differences are not so large to justify a decision to buy.
Here, it's the stopping power that provides important points for the ranking. The best tyres (Dunlop) needs only 52.1 meter at a screeching halt from 100 km/h, the worst (Toyo) brings the Mercedes after 59.7 metres to a standstill. Continental are particularly pleasant to wet, to Dunlop and Goodyear, which limit the dominant in heavy SUV understeer to a minimum and thus give the impression of high ease of handling and steering precision.
Pirelli and Vredestein let external strongly push the ML in curves on the front axle. As only consistently renowned brands participate in the test, is it not surprising that there are no real losers. For three winners - of which two, Goodyear and Dunlop, still same House come from.
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The best tyres receives the maximum possible score in each criterion. The test value of a tire to 20 or more percent is worse than that of the good, there are zero points. Criteria, an exception the not or have only partially on the basis of a measured value be points and in which the subjective assessment by the tester is the crucial factor: handling and comfort. In the rolling resistance, which is determined in the test lab on the drum, is one of the rolling resistance coefficient of CR. A ten percent better CR reduces consumption by 1.6 percent.
