Thanks for the suggestion.I highly recommend the Michelin Pilot Alpin 4 or 5. Have those on my RWD 911 which goes anywhere uphill with those in the winter.
I don't see any Nokian winter tires being available:
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Thanks for the suggestion.
I am looking online in North America and am only seeing the PIRELLI SCORPION WINTER tires available. My car isn't going to be delivered until the end of 2021 (if I am lucky) so I do have some time. Its possible there will be better availability as we get
BTW, if you’re not bothered with the NF0 rating, then I highly recommend the Michelin Pilot Alpin 4 or 5. Have those on my RWD 911 which goes anywhere uphill with those in the winter. Had winter Pirelli’s before which never got more than 15k KMs with soft driving; these Michelins are over 25k KMs and still 4-5mm of thread. Maybe they’ll make it through the season
Not sure where you got that the Pilot Alpin 4-5 is terrible, I’ve tried a few here in Switzerland over the years and found them to be the best for my use; daily to work through the countryside, driving up the mountain in any conditions even in unkept roads to go skiing nearly every weekend in season, etc. It’s usually -10 to -15c where I drive and the tyre perform fine. Considering I have a RWD 911 with those I’d say that the tyres exceed my expectations.The Pilot Alpin is a totally different kind of tyre compared to the R3. It’s not really a winter tire if by that you mean a tire made for real cold and icy winter conditions.
The Pilot Alpin is a central european winter tire made for highspeed driving primarily for rain and occasional light snow. Tread pattern and rubber compound is vastly different and optimised for tempartures above 32F/0C Performance wise it’s great for what it’s intended for but compared with the R3 its not anywhere near as good with regard to breaking distance and traction on ice, snow in harsher winter conditons and low temperatures.
The only similar alternative to R3 available 20inch Taycan dimensions is the Michelin X-ice SUV and if you want studded the Hakkapelitta 10 all the other alternatives are more or less similar to the pilot Alpin.
Short answer is that you will not have any issues in the US with your warranty thanks to the Magnuson Moss act (as was pointed out by another poster on this forum recently)If I can't get 'NFO Porsche' (as far as I can tell from the Tire Rack configurator, the Michelin Alpin 5 is not NFO), will there be problems with Porsche warranties?
If actually wrote that the Alpin is good fo the conditions its made for which high speed driving on mostly wet non snow covered roads paired with acceptable performance on lightly snow covered roads.Not sure where you got that the Pilot Alpin 4-5 is terrible, I’ve tried a few here in Switzerland over the years and found them to be the best for my use; daily to work through the countryside, driving up the mountain in any conditions even in unkept roads to go skiing nearly every weekend in season, etc. It’s usually -10 to -15c where I drive and the tyre perform fine. Considering I have a RWD 911 with those I’d say that the tyres exceed my expectations.
This test seems to agree that these are good tyres as they came out second (although behind the Nokian H3) https://www.tyrereviews.com/Tyre/Michelin/Pilot-Alpin-5.htm
The original poster mentioned he couldn’t find the H3, so I think the PA5 make sense. The X-ICE SUV is a SUV tyre so driving feel is probably not optimised which is a shame if you’ve gone through the expense of buying a low slung sedan instead of an etron SUV. Not sure how winter extreme you want to go anyway with the Taycan - if the snow is deep enough you’ll get beach because of ground clearance before the tyres lose traction…
Has anyone tried this? Vredstein has wintrac pros is this size. I ran them on an RS6 Last year and they were decent275/40/20 seem to be about 100x as common as 285/40/20. Crucially they are they same diameter as 245/45/20.
I ordered Taycan Tequipment Design 20" wheels that should come with Hakka winter tires (non-studded) from the dealer.