A frame like Michelin Pilot Sport 4s is not a single entity. There is the version that Michelin sells to you, and many Michelin’s releases have evolved specifically for auto manufacturers. This is very different, because what car manufacturers want and what individual buyers want is the same.
Michelin invited us to an event on the Atlanta Road to teach more about “replacement” tires – the rubber that she sells to buyers from the private sector as after the sale. We got samples from some wonderful tires, as you expect from Michelin, but the most interesting is what we learned about auto and car owners.
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“The great tension-which is in this way for several years so far and I do not expect to change in the near future-between what the original equipment manufacturers demand in terms of tire performance and what consumers demand in the alternative market in terms of performance,” explains Steve Caldr, an engineer and head of marketing for the Michelin line. “The offers that are requested are directly opposite.”
Steve Caldr, an engineer and head of marketing for the experimental performance line in Michelin, explains. No one wants to replace the tires every year or two.
“The more wearing the corrosion that we can offer better, the traction, the wet traction, and the attractive snow is especially important.”
Ltx Platinum defender is one of the latest alternative tires in Michelin.
Photo by: Chris Perkins / Motor 1
In a large part of the United States, car owners run the same tires throughout the year, which is why all tires in every season are very popular. Deep, the snow belt, you will see customers turning into a dedicated winter frame, which is designed for both ice and ice, as well as cold and dry conditions.
In general, alternative tire buyers do not look at the circulating resistance, but this changes with the appearance of EVS. Reducing rotation resistance helps in efficiency, and thus ranges, so some EV customers search for this quality. However, it is not nearly car manufacturers.
In EVS, where shoppers are really estimated at a range, and in internal combustion vehicles, where car manufacturers have to achieve strict targets of fuel economy (well, everywhere but the United States now), low -circulating resistance is huge. The auto industry will try to achieve efficiency gains wherever it is, so you will accumulate to press tire companies such as Michelin to help their case.
Calder explains that the problem is that the circulating resistance and the tacit clothes are competing with each other. As well as resistance to trading and wetage/winter. Through good engineering, Michelin managed to reduce these settlements, but it still exists – in cars, you can never get the best in the worlds. This is another reason that makes OE tires completely different from their counterparts after selling.
Porsche-SPEC Pilot Pilot Sport S 5. N0 indicates a mark on the side wall that this frame is a porch frame.
Photo by: Porsche
The next thing that many car manufacturers require is dry brake performance. “This does not make sense at the beginning, but this is related to how the consumer tests their cars,” says Caldr.
Consumer reports include dry branch numbers as part of their total vehicle classifications, so auto companies want to increase these scores to the maximum. Regardless of what you have for brakes, the car brake performance is only as good as its tires.
Then, it comes to the preferences of the individual car maker. One of the engineers who moved to the United States after a long talisman in France tells me that Porsche wants “everything”, a good dry performance, and the rolling resistance, and they are very interested in air dynamics.
“Great tension … is between what the original equipment manufacturers demand in terms of tire performance and what consumers demand in the replacement market in terms of performance.”
Tyre Rack has recently published an interesting test for high -performance tires for MAX Performance Summer tires, and as part of it, compare Michelin Pilot Sport 4s with a standard version on BMW M2. Using the M2 as a test car, the tire shelf found that the OE version of PS4S had a more stable ride and more noise, but it was more clear treatment in dry and wet conditions, and published better numbers on the right track.
It is clear that this is just one example, and the tire rack did not measure the age of Faris or the fuel economy for this test as well. (Although both PS4S variables have the same classification of 300 and 30,000 miles guarantee.) But it is clear that BMW wanted a dry and humid grip at the expense of riding quality and noise.
Calder explains that, perfectly, Michelin is developing a post -sales replacement model before OE’s versions because it is a useful standard. We do not live in an ideal world, and sometimes these tires are developed in parallel.
Alternative version of Michelin Pilot Sport throughout the fourth season.
Photo by: Michelin
Pilot Sport throughout season 4, for example, first appeared with C8 Corvette STINGRAY a long time before the alternative version. Thus, the Corvette frame contains a tacit pattern that represents a type of hybrid of Pilot Sport tires throughout the 4 season 4 season and Pilot Sport A/S 3+.
Often, though, OE tires and alternative referrals look almost, if not 100 percent identical. The difference comes in the compound and construction, both of which have a significant effect on the performance of the tires.
What it ends often are tires that look similar, and have the same name, but they are almost completely different. Often, cars with OE (or tires) work better on this specified frame (or tires). The car manufacturer and the tire manufacturer operates for years to ensure that the tires fit the car’s needs to the starting point.
A wide range of alternative tires means that car owners can go to something that may suit their needs better. The auto industry company must be interested in the economy in fuel consumption; A private customer no.
But what do you want Michelin itself? Unlike the work of both the owners of the original equipment and car owners, it only tries to create tires that excel in each scale.
“We have to balance what we offer, and how we hand it over to OE, and what we offer to replace (clients), then internally, we always try to break this settlement.”
