Our team here at SimpleTire has gone through and put together some of the best tire options for your Volvo V60, including all-season, all-weather, and winter tires. We then ranked them in Best/Great/Good order and assigned numerical scores to each one for traction, longevity, and handling, using our SimpleScore rating system. Ready? Let’s go in for a closer look:
1. Continental PureContact LS: Best All-Season tire
We’re going to kick off this list with the Continental PureContact LS. The PureContact LS is a tire that’s designed to check all the boxes that drivers expect from Continental: long wear, sharp performance, great handling, and a quiet, supple ride. The Continental PureContact LS delivers handling that’s accurate and immediate, composed road manners, and year-round traction along with the kind of ride comfort you might expect with a Grand Touring tire. Response, road feel and steering feedback are all first-rate thanks to its solid center rib, and an asymmetric tread pattern with large, stable tread blocks contribute to the PureContact LS’s cornering dynamics, earning it a SimpleScore of 9.4 for handling. The Continental PureContact LS is also designed for long, even wear and great tread properties. Next-generation materials such as temperature-activated polymers in the tread compound helps deliver excellent traction, low road noise, and long wear (with a 70,000 mile limited manufacturer tread life warranty) – bringing this tire up to a SimpleScore of 9.7 for longevity. When you need dependable grip in rainy or light wintry conditions, Continental infused +Silane additives in the rubber compound; in addition, there’s a package of circumferential grooves, sweeping grooves, “traction grooves” that retain snow to provide snow-on-snow friction and sipes in the shoulders, totaling up to a SimpleScore of 9.7 for traction.
2. Bridgestone Weatherpeak: Best All-Weather tire
Next up is a great all-weather tire for your Volvo V60, the Bridgestone Weatherpeak. If you live in a part of the country where you might see several inches of snow and then things stay cold enough that the roads are snow-packed for days or weeks, you may have already found out the hard way that most all-season tires just aren’t able to provide reliable traction. All-weather tires are a newish category that are pretty similar in most ways to all-season tires, but specifically with better traction in snow and slush. With that in mind, Bridgestone engineers designed the Weatherpeak’s tread for consistent grip in winter weather, complete with a dense network of sipes, the hair-thin slits that give drivers the advantage they need for snow or slush, multiplying traction by adding hundreds of extra biting edges. The Weatherpeak features a unique 3D sipe design that will continue to boost your winter traction even as the miles pile up and tread depth wear. It’s especially ingenious since most tires lose traction as tread depth diminishes. The Weatherpeak is also designed with innovative “snow vices”, grooves that trap and retain snow to build snow-to-snow friction and enhance grip. Taking that all into account, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Bridgestone Weatherpeak has the Three Peak Mountain Snowflake rating for severe winter service. Tests with the Weatherpeak have shown winter braking distances that are as much as 30 feet shorter than the competition’s tires. Our team gave the Bridgestone Weatherpeak a SimpleScore of 9.7 for traction. Steering response and cornering are also superb with performance that’s direct without being touchy or jumpy; the Weatherpeak owes its SimpleScore of 9.5 for handling to its rubber formulation and tread features. Road manners, steering response, and cornering ability are also commendable with this tire, in all kinds of weather conditions. Our SimpleScore for longevity is a very strong 9.8; Bridgestone backs the Weatherpeak with a 70,000 mile limited manufacturer’s tread life warranty.
3. Goodyear Winter Command Ultra: Best Winter tire
Our pick for the best winter tire is the Winter Command Ultra, a tire we’ve been impressed with for its low noise, ride comfort, and sharp, responsive handling. The Winter Command Ultra gets a best-in-class SimpleScore of 9.9 for traction, with Goodyear’s Cryo-Adaptive tread compound and ActiveGrip technology that consists of a directional tread pattern with V-shaped sweeping grooves, active block cuts, and Adaptive SipeGrip design. Not surprisingly, the Winter Command Ultra is Three Peak Mountain Snowflake rated for severe winter service. Handling SimpleScore is 9.9 as well – the tread features and shoulder of the Winter Command Ultra all deliver control, cornering, and steering feedback that is precise and predictable. With a longevity score of 8.5, the Goodyear Winter Command Ultra falls a bit in the rankings but that’s not surprising – this is a dedicated winter tire and its Cryo-Adaptive tread formulation is softer and designed to stay flexible in subfreezing weather. Winter tires will wear quickly on warmer days and Goodyear advises against using this tire if temperatures are above 45 degrees F.
These are some of the best premium tires around for your Volvo V60, but we’re not done yet. Here are a couple of other choices for you to think about:
4. Nokian WR G4 SUV: Great All-Weather tire
If you’re like most people, you’re probably curious about the brand name “Nokian” – yes, Nokian has the same parent company as Nokia phones. Based in Finland, this tire manufacturer has decades of experience in developing the kind of tires that can help drivers navigate safely through the tough Scandinavian winters. Technically, the WR G4 SUV is classed in the all-weather tire category; however, its design goals are oriented more toward winter performance. In other words, this is a tire that you can rely on equally for either deep snow and slush or on a sun-baked Texas ranch road in 100-degree-plus temperatures. Nokian starts the WR G4 SUV with a long-wearing, sustainably-manufactured rubber compound designed to stay flexible for good traction in subfreezing weather. Cornering, stability, and durability are all boosted by an Aramid-reinforced sidewall. When you need dependable traction once the snow starts piling up, the asymmetric tread pattern features circumferential, angled, and lateral grooves that work together to evacuate water and slush from the tire’s contact patch and resist hydroplaning. Nokian’s innovative “centipede sipe” design means traction in rough winter conditions that compares well with what the best winter tires can offer. We also need to mention that the low rolling resistance of the Nokian WR G4 SUV makes it a good choice for EVs (as well as your Volvo V60) and it offers a quiet ride thanks to a tread pitch that’s randomized and computer-tuned to cancel certain frequencies. With a 60,000 mile limited manufacturer tread life warranty and the industry’s Three Peak Mountain Snowflake rating for severe winter service, we feel that the Nokian WR G4 SUV is a strong all-around performer, a great value, and a very versatile tire choice all the way around. SimpleTire’s SimpleScore data for the Nokian WR G4 SUV comes out to an overall score of 9.2, with a 9.2 for handling, 9 for longevity, and 9.6 for traction.
5. General Altimax RT45: Great All-Weather tire
We’re going to close out this list with a tire we’ve been consistently impressed with - the General Altimax RT45. The Altimax RT45 is a tire that delivers a great value all the way around, despite its lower price point. It’s a tire that you can rely on for the performance you need in all kinds of weather conditions, with a proven all-season tread design. General Tire backs the Altimax RT45 with either a 65,000 or 75,000 mile manufacturer’s tread life warranty (depending on tire size), and we rate this tire with a very strong SimpleScore of 9.9 for longevity. Year-round traction, predictable, consistent handling and braking performance, a forgiving ride, and low noise are all strong points with the Altimax RT45 for a traction score of 9.0. We chalked up a SimpleScore of 8.7 for handling, with its network of sipes and lateral grooves and a solid center rib that all work together for better road manners and steering response. Another innovation with this tire is the visual alignment indicator, designed to give drivers a heads-up to excessive wear or alignment that’s out of spec. The words “Replace Tire” are molded into the tread so that they’re only revealed when the tread depth reaches a minimum of 2/32”. Select sizes of the Altimax RT45 are available with a great-looking outlined white letter sidewall.
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