Asymmetric All Season Tyres

[Bailes1992]

I'm going to be purchasing 5 tyres for my Wife's Volvo XC70 towards the end of the summer. She currently runs Uniroyal All Season Expert 2's in 235/55 R17 flavour. We are also missing a spare wheel so planning on picking up a full size spare. I'd like to run the same tyre on all 5 wheels and rotate accordingly.

Does anyone have any recommendations for an asymetric all season tyre? The only one I can find is the Vredestein Quatrac Pro+ and they're not a manufacturer I'm familiar with.

Obviously the other two options would be to look for a 'light' A/T tyre with 3PMSF as these are usual asymmetric or run a different tyre on the spare but this means I can't 'rotate' and keep the spare 'fresh'.

 

[CapriRacer]

I'm curious as to why you want an Asymmetrical tire. It sounds like you're confusing the term with Directional, where the tires have to be placed on one side of the car in order to rotate in the proper direction.

Symmetrical tires can be used in any position. Usually the term Non-directional tires is used in place of symmetrical tires.


Here's my webpage on the subject: Barry's Tire Tech: Directional and Asymmetrical Tires:

 

[Jetronic]

I'm going to be purchasing 5 tyres for my Wife's Volvo XC70 towards the end of the summer. She currently runs Uniroyal All Season Expert 2's in 235/55 R17 flavour. We are also missing a spare wheel so planning on picking up a full size spare. I'd like to run the same tyre on all 5 wheels and rotate accordingly.

Does anyone have any recommendations for an asymetric all season tyre? The only one I can find is the Vredestein Quatrac Pro+ and they're not a manufacturer I'm familiar with.

Obviously the other two options would be to look for a 'light' A/T tyre with 3PMSF as these are usual asymmetric or run a different tyre on the spare but this means I can't 'rotate' and keep the spare 'fresh'.

the snow performance seems to hurt non-directional all-season tyres, that's why they nearly all moved there.

 

[RooflessVW]

I've got Falken Ziex A/S 950 on my Jetta. They did ok in the snow

 

[Bailes1992]

I'm curious as to why you want an Asymmetrical tire. It sounds like you're confusing the term with Directional, where the tires have to be placed on one side of the car in order to rotate in the proper direction.

Symmetrical tires can be used in any position. Usually the term Non-directional tires is used in place of symmetrical tires.


Here's my webpage on the subject: Barry's Tire Tech: Directional and Asymmetrical Tires:

Your website seems to back up what I already thought. I'm looking for a winter tyre that I can put on either side of the car without having to have the tyre remounted in the correct direction. These are generally called Asymmetrical over here.

the snow performance seems to hurt non-directional all-season tyres, that's why they nearly all moved there.

This is kind-of the feeling I'm getting. In which case I'll probably buy 4x Michellin CC2's and chuck a cheap budget tyree on the spare. I was just hoping if I could find a 'non-directional' tyre I could fit the same to all 5 and include the spare with the rotation cycle.

 

[Jetronic]

Your website seems to back up what I already thought. I'm looking for a winter tyre that I can put on either side of the car without having to have the tyre remounted in the correct direction. These are generally called Asymmetrical over here.



This is kind-of the feeling I'm getting. In which case I'll probably buy 4x Michellin CC2's and chuck a cheap budget tyree on the spare. I was just hoping if I could find a 'non-directional' tyre I could fit the same to all 5 and include the spare with the rotation cycle.

The tyres on the MG are simple symetrical tyres, officially summer tyres too but I found they did exceptional on light snow. I was wondering why everyone was driving 12 mph one morning, then I noticed them spinning wheels when trying to turn at an intersection. Didn't notice it was slick at all.

My guess is these tyres are soft 3-season tyres.

 

[Bailes1992]

The tyres on the MG are simple symetrical tyres, officially summer tyres too but I found they did exceptional on light snow. I was wondering why everyone was driving 12 mph one morning, then I noticed them spinning wheels when trying to turn at an intersection. Didn't notice it was slick at all.

My guess is these tyres are soft 3-season tyres.

Back in early 2021 we had a bit of snow and I took my Son (who was about 18 months old at the time) up to my in laws at 6am. Their housing estate is at the bottom of a steep hill. I was in my Wife's Mondeo ST220 wearing Dunlop Sportmaxx RT2's and I could not get back up the hill to get out of the housing estate. As soon as you touched the accelerator it would just spin. I must have had about 25 run-ups before I gave up and got the train home. Weirdly, about 30 people must have passed me with zero issues probably running the cheapest Chinese budgets available.

From that day on, I swore to only buy tyres with 3PMFS, even though we get very little of the stuff.

 

[Jetronic]

Back in early 2021 we had a bit of snow and I took my Son (who was about 18 months old at the time) up to my in laws at 6am. Their housing estate is at the bottom of a steep hill. I was in my Wife's Mondeo ST220 wearing Dunlop Sportmaxx RT2's and I could not get back up the hill to get out of the housing estate. As soon as you touched the accelerator it would just spin. I must have had about 25 run-ups before I gave up and got the train home. Weirdly, about 30 people must have passed me with zero issues probably running the cheapest Chinese budgets available.

From that day on, I swore to only buy tyres with 3PMFS, even though we get very little of the stuff.

Back in the 80s when we had tyres or snow tyres that was the norm. When winter tyres became a thing, regular tyres became summer tyres and lost all the snow capability they had.

 

[slacktide_bitog]

Vredestein was the first to make these kinds of tires, the original Quatrac in the early 90s

If you don't like directional tires, don't worry. You have a few options. Here's what blackcircles has
Tomket Allyear 3
Radar Dimax 4 Season
Falken Euroall AS220

NOTE: your options are not the same as we get over here. We seem to have more options in the asymmetric non-directional all-weather tire segment.

Out of your options, Vredestein seems to be the best choice, followed by Falken.

 

[Sequoiasoon]

Are Nokian tires an option to get? I would consider Nokian WRG5 as an option if available.

On the Continental UK website the CrossContact H/T looks exactly like the CrossContact LX25 here in the USA (minus the DWS in tread). Many here really like the LX25 and it gets good test results for snow as well as rest of the year.

For winter do you plan to get different rims/tires so you can swap in driveway when cold also? Conti WinterContact TS 850 or TS 830 appear to be asymmetrical to be run in all positions.

 

[Rand]

You are likely to run into issues with language/terms.
What exactly is a winter tire for UK? All season?
Totally different tire market over there too.

Winter tires here are usually...... *drumroll* Winter tires

 

[Dadillac]

I have the Vredestein Quatrac Pro+ on my '24 Volvo. Bought them because they had what I would call the most winter tire tread. Plenty of siping. Here in New Jersey we haven't had a bad winter in like 5 or 6 years. But this winter we had 3 snowfalls with some icing. The tires did just fine. I am pleased with the tires and would recommend them

Don