In today's demanding driving environment, winter tyres must meet a wide range of requirements, with safety being the top priority. The Falken Eurowinter HS449 rises to the challenge, delivering exceptional grip and reliable braking characteristics for an all-around superior winter tyre.
Features and Benefits:
Innovative High-Silica Compounds: These advanced compounds enhance the tyre’s performance in cold conditions, ensuring optimal grip and safety on icy and snowy roads.
Improved Polymers: The use of improved polymers in the tyre construction provides better flexibility and durability, contributing to longer tyre life and consistent performance.
5-Phase Shifted Tread Bars: Designed to minimize drive-by noise, these tread bars ensure a quieter, more comfortable ride, making long winter journeys more pleasant.
Close-Set Three-Dimensional Sipes: These new sipes deliver outstanding performance, significantly improving traction on ice and snow, ensuring you stay in control even in the most challenging winter conditions.
Intelligent Tread Design with 3D Sipe Technology:
The tread design features 3D sipe technology, which maximizes contact with snow, increasing snow traction and enhancing overall handling on winter roads.
Two Wide Circumferential Grooves and High-Volume Lateral Grooves:
These design elements provide excellent wet performance, offering high levels of aquaplaning resistance. You can drive confidently in wet and slushy conditions, knowing your tyres are designed to handle them.
Winter-Optimised Silica Compound:
Specifically formulated for winter temperatures, this silica compound ensures optimal grip and performance, keeping you safe and secure throughout the cold season.
EU Tyre Label and Efficiency Classes
The European Union has introduced the EU Tyre Label by Regulation (No. 1222/2009) identically and bindingly for all EU member states. It applies to passenger car tyres, light commercial vehicle tyres and heavy commercial vehicle tyres produced after 01.07.2012.
Three different areas are tested: rolling resistance, wet grip and the rolling noise the tyre makes on the road.
The following are not affected by the EU Tyre Label: retreaded tyres, professional off-road tyres, racing tyres, tyres with additional devices to improve traction such as spiked tyres, T-type emergency tyres, special tyres for fitting to vehicles first registered before 1 October 1990, tyres with a maximum authorised speed of 80 km/h, tyres for rims with a nominal diameter of 254 mm or less or 635 mm or more.
With this regulation, the European Union is pursuing the goal of promoting economic and ecological efficiency in road traffic as well as increasing road safety on the one hand, and on the other hand, granting consumers more product transparency and at the same time serving as an active decision-making aid.
Already during the incorporation, experts criticise the fact that the EU Tyre Label unfortunately only shows a few product characteristics. Apart from rolling resistance, wet grip and rolling noise, which are the main focus of EU tyre labelling, tyres have much more important and safety-relevant product characteristics, such as aquaplaning properties, driving stability, service life, braking properties on dry and wet roads, behaviour in wintry conditions, etc.
Tyre manufacturers point out that test results from various institutions and journals remain an important information medium for the end consumer. These tests usually focus on further safety-relevant product characteristics besides the EU standard qualifications for tyre labelling, which are always important for the final customer.
Falken Tyre Europe GmbH is the European subsidiary of Japanese tyre manufacturer Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd. From its headquarters in Offenbach
am Main, Germany, Falken Tyre Europe oversees the marketing of a complete portfolio of tyres for cars, trucks, vans and SUVs as supplier of OEM products
and for the European aftermarket. The company has built up a sales network of around 8,000 tyre dealers throughout Europe, which act as our partners for
sales and fitting of our quality products.
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