Why Porsche winter wheel-and-tyre sets are important

The Porsche guide to winter wheel-and-tyre sets

Discover the benefits of Porsche winter wheel-and-tyre sets

3 October 2024

Porsche 911 Carrera with ski-/snowboard holder

Find out how choosing specially designed winter wheel-and-tyre sets from Porsche can help improve your car’s performance, its efficiency and make for a safer drive

If there’s one season that makes extra demands on your car it’s the winter. To ensure that you always drive safely and efficiently, it’s important to fit winter wheel-and-tyre sets.

These are designed to work in particularly cold temperatures and icy, snowy and wet conditions. Find out what is special about them and why you should fit them.

What are winter tyres?

Winter tyres are specially developed for optimum performance in cold, wet, icy or snowy conditions. They are made from a softer rubber compound than summer tyres that stay flexible when temperatures fall rather than hardening. They also have deeper tread depths to help better deal with the more challenging conditions you encounter during the season.

Porsche winter wheel-and-tyre and sets on Taycan Turbo Cross Turismo — Choosing winter wheel-and-tyre sets from Porsche can help shorten the braking distance in difficult conditions compared to summer tyres Photo: Porsche

What is the difference between winter tyres and summer tyres?

Winter tyres ensure a stronger bond with difficult road surfaces – snowy, icy and extremely wet ones – than tyres designed for summer conditions. In the winter, braking presents more of a challenge to drivers compared to regular summer tyres. If you’re braking on a wet surface, winter tyres can help shorten the braking distance compared to summer tyres.

How can you tell what is a winter tyre?

If you look at any tyre, whether winter or summer, you will see a number of letters, digits and symbols on the sidewall that indicate what type of tyre it is. Winter tyres have a M+S (it stands for ‘mud and snow’) marking along with the Alpine symbol – a three-pointed mountain with a snowflake.

Any tyre can use the M+S designation without specific winter testing but if it has the Alpine symbol this indicates that it has been certified for optimum winter performance.

Porsche winter wheel-and-tyre set on Porsche Panamera — The special compounds used in tyres developed for winter use help give them an advantage over summer variants making them safer, more efficient driving and helping optimise the performance of your car in poor conditions during winter Photo: Porsche

When should I switch to winter wheel-and-tyre sets?

As a general rule, when winter temperatures drop to 7°C it’s time to switch to winter wheel-and-tyre sets as this is the point at which the tyre compound begins to harden. The tyre’s usual driving characteristics begin to deteriorate and braking distances are increased at this point.

In the Northern Hemisphere, this usually means making the switch between October and April. It’s important not to leave the switchover too late in order to give you plenty of time ahead of the first snow fall, for example.

What are Porsche winter wheel-and-tyre sets?

Porsche and sportiness go hand in hand. Porsche winter wheel-and-tyre sets fit all Porsche models, complementing your Porsche perfectly – and ensuring that even in worsening weather conditions, you are still able to make the most of your car’s performance.

The complete winter wheel-and-tyre sets from Porsche are created to harmonise perfectly with the look of your vehicle. But even more than that, they also meet the very highest standards when it comes to quality, safety and driving pleasure. The special treads and adapted rubber compounds used in Porsche winter wheel-and-tyre sets mean that you can still look forward to achieving the maximum in control and power output from your Porsche.

Winter wheel-and-tyre sets, developed by Porsche by its experts in Weissach, help your Porsche achieve optimal performance, even in the coldest of seasons.

Consumption and emission information

Taycan Turbo Cross Turismo (WLTP): Electric energy consumption combined: 22.0 – 19.1 kWh/100 km; CO₂ emissions combined: 0 g/km; CO₂ class: A. Panamera (WLTP): Fuel consumption combined: 10.5 – 9.7 l/100 km; CO₂ emissions combined: 239 – 219 g/km; CO₂ class: G. Macan Turbo Electric (WLTP): Electric energy consumption combined: 20.7 – 18.9 kWh/100 km; CO₂ emissions combined: 0 g/km; CO₂ class: A. Cayenne E-Hybrid Coupé (WLTP): Fuel consumption weighted combined: 1.8 – 1.5 l/100 km; Fuel consumption with depleted battery combined: 10.9 – 10.0 l/100 km; Electric energy consumption weighted combined: 308 – 286 Wh/km; CO₂ emissions weighted combined: 42 – 33 g/km; CO₂ class weighted combined: B; CO₂ class with depleted battery: G.

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