YOKOHAMA Ice GUARD ig53-New single guide tread pattern

Feature

New single guide tread pattern
3-D triple sipes
Newly designed tread pattern increases the tire’s grounding area
The 3-D grooves prevent uneven deflection of the tread blocks by supporting each other.
Maximized edge effect on snow and ice
Outstanding snow and ice performance is achieved by optimizing the grounding area.
Single guide tread pattern
Serrated main grooves
Edge effect (ice performance)
Lightning grooves
Edge effect
Central power blocks
(Ice performance, Snow performance)
|Slash grooves
Even without a break-in period, the twill grooves provide outstanding
increased grounding area
Ice and snow performance.
(Ice performance, dry ground stability)
3-D Triple Groove
Twill grooves
Increase grounding area
Edge effect (Ice performance)
(Ice performance, snow performance)
■ Water-absorbing tread rubber compounds
The water layer on ice is the biggest cause of loss of grip in tires. This leads to “skidding” on the ice.
YUKOHAUMA’s own rubber compound technology, a water-absorbent rubber compound, allows the tire to come into direct contact with the ice.
When driving on snowy and icy roads, make sure that the grooves in your winter tires are more than 50% of what they were when they were new. Determine if the wear limit has been reached.
WARNING is determined by whether or not the tread wear mark on the tire is exposed. Tires with grooves that are less than 50% of the depth of new tires cannot be used as winter tires.
Energy efficient tire construction
The tread rubber consists of two layers.
Tread rubber
The “surface rubber” and the “base tread rubber”.
Tread base rubber
The newly developed low heat generation base tread rubber increases rigidity and helps to reduce rolling resistance.
Water Absorbent Tread Rubber Formulation
Eliminates the floating layer of water on the ice surface through its hollow shape and produces a tiny water-absorbing layer on the ice surface through its hard
casing creates a tiny edge effect on the ice surface.
Water Absorbing Bubbles
High Density Reinforced Rubber Formulation
We have developed high density compounds that form a more stable tread pattern block for greater grounding area and slower, more uniform wear.
Conventional Rubber Formulation
High Density Reinforced Rubber Formulations
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Conventional rubber compound in contact with the road
High-density reinforced rubber compound in contact with the road
vnical nubber-to-road contac

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