Nokian WR D4 is the world’s first premium snow tyre for passenger cars that also offers the best possible wet grip rating. This tyre is a grip champion whose unique innovations allow for safe and balanced driving on wet and snowy roads alike.
Each tread block and the sipes in the tread pattern have a precise shape and role, and this can be felt in the excellent grip and handling properties.
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The centre area of the tyre features a strong and massive centre rib. The sipes of the centre rib do not run across its entire width, which improves precision and promotes controlled handling.
The unique particle distribution of the Nokian Twin Trac Silica rubber compound, which contains natural rubber, silica and canola oil, ensures peak performance for snow and wet grip. This state-of-the-art compound innovation also improves driving stability and wear resistance. The large amounts of natural rubber and canola oil ensure that the excellent winter grip properties remain the same even as temperatures change and the kilometres add up. Extremely low rolling resistance results in low fuel consumption.
All Nokian snow & winter tyres comply with Victorian Alpine Resorts (Management) Regulations 2020 definition of ‘snow tyre’. That is ‘a tyre whose tread pattern, tread compound and structure are specifically designed to achieve better performance, on a road affected by snow or ice, than that of a normal tyre with regard to its ability to initiate, maintain or stop vehicle motion’.
This means a snow tyre must be a dedicated winter tyre as per the tyre manufacturer’s specifications. By definition normal tyres, highway-terrain tyres, summer tyres, all-terrain tyres, off-road tyres, mud-terrain tyres and M+S tyres do not comply with the regulations.
See Australian Regulations to learn more about the 2020 changes in Victoria.
