Hey everyone! Welcome for today’s review and I’m excited to talk to you today about the godfather of performance tires… The Michelin Pilot Super Sport.
Now what makes this tire the Godfather of performance tires? It is amazing when it comes to performance, reliability, traction, tread life, road noise, everything! It nails it. It’s the most popular tire the most re-ordered tire in the entire industry people call for it they asked for it. It also comes stock on some of the most exotic cars in the world including the Ferrari 458 Italia now if it’s good enough for a Ferrari 458, it’s definitely good enough for your daily driven car but it’s also not overkill.
It truly is a great tire for an everyday driven car now what makes it so it’s because of a number of features it’s got the right tread pattern, it’s got the right rubber compound. It’s in the max performance summer tire category which is basically the highest traction the you can get, the best performance you can get for a car that is not intended for the track.
So one step above this category above this tire would be tires that basically have very little tread pattern on them at all. So this is about as as top of the line is you can get a daily driven car for your high performance European car domestic car or JDM car whatever it is if it’s got high horsepower this is the tire for you So a lot of cars these days are coming with run-flat tires from the factory. The only thing that a run-flat tire is better at than a standard radial tire like a Michelin Pilot Super Sport is.
The Michelin Pilot Super Sport is gonna be having the benefits you want on a daily driven basis and that’s why you should really consider taking the run-flats off your car in favor of a more high performance tire like the Michelin Pilot Super Sport because you get to use those benefits every day and if you are only using the benefits of a run-flat…
Then it’s kinda like why are you taking the one thing that’s actually making contact with the road on a daily basis and not using the actual benefits that it’s intended to be for. Now if run-flats ever gets to the point where they have the… if there’s a Michelin Pilot Super Sport run-flat on a daily on all of their sizes, they have a few sizes as I as I filmed this video, if it ever comes to be that they have all of those benefits mixed in with the run-flat technology.
Well that’s great, but I think we’re so little bit off from that it may come in the future for now for the performance minded driving enthusiasts..
This is the tire that you’re looking for because it has the benefits you can actually appreciate on a daily basis. Alright so the secret weapon of the Michelin Pilot Sport tire very very few people know about. This tire actually uses two rubber compounds and two different tread patterns on the same tire. Now on this side, this is the wet side of the tire will. It basically has deeper grooves in the tire to channel rain off to the side as well as a compound that is designed for greater safety in the rain.
On this side, this is the dry side of the tire literally as I touch this I can feel the difference. This is gonna have you know shallower grooves and it’s going to have a softer rubber compound designed to give you extra traction. Now the dry side is on the outer side of the tire so as you take corners at a more aggressive speed and the car rolls to that side, it’s gonna roll onto the dry traction side.
They’re basically saying if its wet you’re not going to be taking a corner at 60 miles an hour that the sign says 25. But if you’re on that on that on ramp and your going 60 in that 25.
.. (which of course we don’t condone but we know that you might do from time to time) if you’re doing that you’re gonna roll onto the dry side of the tire compound and that’s going to give you greater traction. Michelin Pilot Super Sports are also known for having very very stiff and squared sidewalls. What that means is that this is squared up and it tends to be very stiff.
Now racers love that because as the car you know puts its weight onto that side of the car, you’re not going to have a sidewall gonna like kind of give and fail and make your car feel unsteady.
With this stiff sidewall squared up to the edge its basicaly gonna give you more confidence as you go through a corner and all of us as enthusiasts know what that feels like we’re going through a corner and you feel confident or you don’t… that’s going to determine exactly how you’re driving experiences is and if you’re tracking the car how your lap times are.
I used to actually say when I first started getting into the industry when customers would ask you about tires why are Michelins so expensive and really the only justification I had a time as somebody else to pay for the Michelin Man.
Well, I was wrong at the time because I learned more about this tire and about Michelin as a whole, I came to find out that it really goes into the engineering and manufacturing process behind these tires that justify the higher price. So with the two rubber compounds and the two different tread patterns.
That kind of justifies why this tire is more expensive than most other tires in the category.
And as I’ve been in this industry for over a decade now I see that this is the number one tire that is in demand customers that come in and they ask for a specific tire… it tends to be the Michelin Pilot Super Sport because they’ve been so happy with it over the years.
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