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Nokian Rotiiva AT
It has been almost a year that I have had the Nokian Rotiva AT with 10k+ on them. To date I have not been able to use them in sand, heavy off-road usage including mud or deep snow. I have used them on lite off-road with excellent results. For an on-road/off-road all terrain tire, my gas mileage has not suffered due to the fact it is low rolling resistance tire. My city average is any where from 11 to 14 mpg, with the highway from 21.5 to 23.5 pending on speed and terrain. The tire pressure is kept at 35 psi.
Using Tirerack’s (they do not sell them) survey guide since most of us are familiar with their rating system, here is my other impressions and notes based on today:
Would buy again: 10
Hydroplaning Résistance: 9.5
Wet Traction: 9.0
DRY:
Cornering Stability: 8.8
Dry Traction: 10.0
Steering Response: 9.0
WINTER/SNOW:
Light Snow Traction: 9.5
Deep Snow Traction: n/a
Ice Traction: 8.3
COMFORT:
Ride Comfort: 9.5
Noise Comfort: 8.7
Treadwear: 9.0
If anybody has the Nokian Rotiva’s, feel free and chime in. I am interested in your findings.
Last year, when I was looking at tires, I was also looking at the Cooper AT3, Goodyear SilentAmor and the Toyo Country AT II to replace my BFG Rugged Terrian TA which I was not happy with. The tire was extremely noisy and had no serious traction for the winter.
Best for now.
Nokian Rotiiva AT
It has been almost a year that I have had the Nokian Rotiva AT with 10k+ on them. To date I have not been able to use them in sand, heavy off-road usage including mud or deep snow. I have used them on lite off-road with excellent results. For an on-road/off-road all terrain tire, my gas mileage has not suffered due to the fact it is low rolling resistance tire. My city average is any where from 11 to 14 mpg, with the highway from 21.5 to 23.5 pending on speed and terrain. The tire pressure is kept at 35 psi.
Using Tirerack’s (they do not sell them) survey guide since most of us are familiar with their rating system, here is my other impressions and notes based on today:
Would buy again: 10
The tire was about $230.00 each when I brought them, IMO, it was worth it.
WET:
Hydroplaning Résistance: 9.5
Wet Traction: 9.0
The compound’s Nokian uses and the tread design is the key to this tire. Between the siping (the cuts or wiggle line on the tread block) and the tread pattern, the water has not built-up on me. I stay on course, even in turning and braking. I have driven them thru some nice heavy wind driven rain with flooded roads and found to have no problems.
DRY:
Cornering Stability: 8.8
Dry Traction: 10.0
Steering Response: 9.0
Dry traction is not a problem even with hot temperatures and hi-speed driving (80’s for me). I did find the steering response was a little off from liking when I was down in Georgia last September. This I believe was from the soft compound which Nokian uses. I have read reports that soft non-dedicated winter tires in warmer to hotter climate temperatures get mush. I found that not to be the case. For an aggressive tire, I was surprised how well this one handles in cornering.
WINTER/SNOW:
Light Snow Traction: 9.5
Deep Snow Traction: n/a
Ice Traction: 8.3
One of my major points when I was looking for new tires was how well it did in this category and I wanted the mountain flake symbol. In light snow I have absolute no problems and I did not even shift into snow mode or 4 Lo, since I have those features. In some moderate wet snow, I did use the snow mode just to play a little, no problem. Moderate dry snow was no problem. As I said earlier, I have had no opportunity in deep snow to try them out yet. Ice traction is very good. A few times I had to step on the brakes with out any problems. If my old tires was on, I am sure the result would not be so good. This performance is due to Nokian history in winter driving.
COMFORT:
Ride Comfort: 9.5
Noise Comfort: 8.7
Treadwear: 9.0
There are many different highway surfaces that I drive over, especially on the weekends. Rough surfaces, as always with an AT is noisy, but the Rotiva was not bad at all. Fair surfaces, they are smooth and quiet.. Smooth surfaces, yep, real quiet and smooth. This was from my first impressions at 1k. Now with 10k+ on them the ride comfort is still the same. The noise level did slip a little and I expect more at the 20k mark. A concrete paved road the noise is more pronounced than before. I am still impressed. At 5k, they were rotated and at 10k rotated and balanced. The treadwear is looking good and right on course.
If anybody has the Nokian Rotiva’s, feel free and chime in. I am interested in your findings.
Last year, when I was looking at tires, I was also looking at the Cooper AT3, Goodyear SilentAmor and the Toyo Country AT II to replace my BFG Rugged Terrian TA which I was not happy with. The tire was extremely noisy and had no serious traction for the winter.
Best for now.