The Vredestein Comtrac All Season is the optimal alternative for motorists and entrepreneurs who want to use a single type of tyre for both the summer and winter seasons. This delivery van tyre is characterised by comfortable driving performance, excellent handling and stable road holding. The balanced tread compound combines a high degree of wear resistance, and hence a long lifespan, with excellent grip on wet roads. The carefully designed sipe structure ensures grip and traction on snowy or icy surfaces. The robust V-shaped profile of the Comtrac All Season is made up of rows of tread blocks splaying out to the left and right in staggered arcs. As a result, the noise level is minimal.
EU Tyre Label and Efficiency Classes
The European Union, under CE 1222/2009, has mandated that all tyres manufactured after the date of July 1 2012 for cars and commercial vehicles include standard EU Tyre Labels classifying them by three performance characteristics:fuel efficiency classified from A to G,wet grip classified from A to G, and noise emission in decibels.
Categories of tyres unaffected by this regulation include: retreaded tyres, professional off-road tyres, racing/sports car tyres, as well as certain types of tyres designed to improve traction such as studded tyres, T-type temporary spare tyres, tyres for cars built before 1990, tyres with a maximum allowed speed of 80km/h, tyres for rims with a diameter less or equal to 254 mm or greater or equal to 635 mm. This label is intended on one hand to promote economic and ecological efficiency in traffic, as well as increase road safety, and on the other hand to help consumers select appropriate tyres by ensuring a certain degree of product transparency.
Nevertheless, the label has been criticized for only showing a very limited number of characteristics. Professionals argue that tyres have many more features that are important and relevant to road safety, including but not limited to aquaplaning properties, driving stability, service life, product properties on wet and dry roads other than wet grip, properties on snow. Tyre manufacturers suggest that the test results from various institutions and industry magazines should remain a very important source of information for the end consumer, because they focus on and rate a wide variety of tyre properties and features.
Vredestein Comtrac All season tyre review
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13.08.2014fromMichael Hollington Very good so far a little bit noisy noticed mainly when cornering. Not tried in snow we didn't get any, but very good in muddy conditions/wet grass.
