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Overview
The Continental PureContact LS is a grand touring all season tire built for dry and wet driving conditions. Drivers of wagons, sedans, small SUVs, and coupes can all enjoy the versatility of the PureContact LS. The Pure Contact LS’s design is based on the idea of great vehicle response, good traction on all road terrains, and comfort.
The PureContact LS Tire performs excellently across all weather conditions, it especially performs great in the summer, and they also perform great in winter, icy, and rainy conditions. The grip of the tire in all these conditions is maximum.
The Continental PureContact LS review has been good from users. They suggested that the Pure Contact LS improved car handling, nice ride quality, and good braking grip when compared to similar tires. The users also claim there was more than a 10 percent reduction in the brake distance.
The Continental PureContact LS review reports that it lasts for about 50,000 miles, even in the roughest road conditions. It is available in 29 sizes, ranging from 16 inches to 20 inches. It is great for a good number of recent cars.
The Continental PureContact LS is a tire built for premium vehicles, but it also has sizes available for minivans, crossovers, and mid-size sedans. Due to its sway towards premium cars, the pricing of the PureContact LS is also higher than most touring tires, which means you are more likely to find premium vehicle owners as customers.
However, the PureContact LS proves its premium pricing worth when compared to the cheaper options in the grand touring tire category. It is also not the most expensive among premium grand touring tires. The comfort level and excellent wet traction mean the PureContact LS is a top performer in the grand touring tires category.
Pros
- It provides a high comfort level and extremely quiet performance
- It has the best-wet traction and braking in its class
- It has excellent dry handling that is not usually related to grand-touring tires
- Can perform in light snow condition
- It offers an outstanding tread life
Cons
- It doesn’t have the best tread life warranty in its category
Features
The interior of the tire was constructed with a ply polyester case, to give it a general lightweight construction and provide less weight on the car’s suspension. The high tip of the tire offers good handling response when accelerating, braking, and making turns while giving a ride comfort on the level of a GT tire. Its double steel belts are strengthened with two polyamide overlaps, and this lets it have good stability on high speed and maximum durability.
The PureContact LS has a polymer that is temperature activated functional in its tread compound. And this increases the whole compound bonding and provides improved traction, fuel efficiency, and tire wear. The tread’s asymmetric pattern has stable tread blocks at the shoulder that improves lateral grip and aids high-speed cornering. There is a solid centered feel provided by the wide central rib, it also helps it have better straight line tracking.
There are siped shoulders in the Pure Contact, as well as intermediate tread blocks that aid the creation of grabbing edges that are useful in snowy and icy conditions. The traction grooves in the PureContact LS capture snow in the tread blocks which allows snow to snow traction.
Cabin vibrations are reduced as a result of the Comfort Ride technology by Continental. This technology does this by providing an underlay below the tread that separates the tread and the casing. The Silane coating from Continental also boots the tire’s grip in icy and wet conditions. The risk of hydroplaning is reduced as a result of the combination of the sweeping tread grooves and deep circumferential water channels.
Continental PureContact LS Performance Review
The PureContact LS offers great performance, and this has been confirmed by the users over time. We take a look at the performance review of the PureContact LS in wet, dry, and snowy conditions. As well as its tread life and the level of comfort it provides.
Treadwear and Durability
There are wear indicators in the PureContact LS’ tread like you will find in most premium tires. Continental builds its wear indicators in the main grooves of the tread pattern. Continental built the wear indicators in a way that doesn’t make them visible from a far distance when the Pure Contact LS is still new. They only become visible enough when the tread is worn. Once the wear indicators become so visible, you will have to replace the tires, as they will no longer be of good use in light snow and wet conditions.
The warranty for tread life in the PureContact LS is quite good, with a 6 years warranty for tread life. This is a great warranty for the quality of grip, traction, and responsiveness of this tire. There is a good uniformity warranty for the PureContact LS, at initial 2/32 inches of wear or 1 year of tread life.
The durability is yet to be ascertained, but we are quite positive as Continental tires have always shown great durability. The PureContact LS is likely to follow in the same line as this.
Dry Traction
The PureContact LS is one of the most dependable for highway high-speed driving. The performance will leave you impressed and satisfied. When it comes to the driving experience in fast and luxurious sedans, the Pure Contact LS is a top performer among grand-touring tires. It is hard to fault this tire on dry terrains.
Previous owners of high-performing tires might want to point out a slight drop in response and grip, but this is expected as the Pure Contact LS is a grand-touring tire. However, on average, drivers that are aggressive at the corners will enjoy the Continental Pure Contact LS.
The Pure Contact LS is very responsive to steering input, which increases the fun level of the driving experience. The traction is excellent, and it has one of the shortest braking distance in its category. The grip is so good in all types of weather.
Wet Traction
Seeing how well the Pure Contact LS performs on dry surfaces might want to make you think that is where it best performs. You will be wrong for thinking that.
The Pure Contact LS is arguably the best for wet traction in the all-season tire category. Most summer high-performance tires perform better in wet conditions, but the condition must be warm. However, the Pure Contact LS performs well both in cold and warm conditions, which shoots it to the position of the overall best performer.
Per the testing results from Continental, the Pure Contact LS has the shortest class wet braking distance. The hydroplaning resistance in the tire is so good, even while on high speed in the highways – while the wet traction is quite outstanding.
The advanced tread compound in the tire makes it great on damp pavement. The wet traction of the Pure Contact LS is the best in class wet.
Snow Traction and Braking Performance
The Pure Contact LS is an all-season tire, which makes it quite usable in all conditions including the snow. However, for good snow traction, you will be better off going for winter tires, especially if you are in an area where it snows heavily.
Although in the grand-touring all-season tire category, the Pure Contact LS is one of the best for snow traction. In light snow, it provides better traction than others in its category, while it also has a shorter braking distance than other tires in its category.
Comfort and Noise
Comfort and noise are important attributes for users of premium tires. In most cases, you wouldn’t find sportiness and comfort hand-in-hand in tires. However, the Pure Contact LS seems to find a way to blend these two qualities. It is one of the quietest grand-touring tires you will ever find. Even at high speed, the noise level is still great. The ride quality is excellent and comfortable.
Are Continental PureContact Tires run flat?
Run-flat tires have reinforced sidewalls that are built to resist deflation even after the tire gets punctured. The Pure Contact LS is not a run-flat-tire. The run tire designed by Continental is the Contiprocontact SSR Runflat.
Tire Warranty
The Pure Contact LS has an outstanding 70,000-mile tread life warranty or 6 years as the case may be. This warranty shows the company’s dedication to ensuring long-lasting service life for the tire. There is also the uniformity guarantee for tread wear for the first year or first 2/32 inches of wear.
Buying the tire makes you entitled to 6 years of materials warranty and workmanship. There is also a 60-day testing period warranty or first 2/32 inches trial warranty.
What vehicles will the Continental Purecontact LS fit?
The Continental Pure Contact LS is built specifically for drivers of coupes, sedans, wagon, small SUV, crossover and minivans.
Continental PureContact LS Review: Conclusion
The Pure Contact LS is a great investment for your vehicle. It is a premium GT tire and it hardly lets you down in all types of weather. The service life is quite long and it offers a quiet and comfortable ride. The ride quality is great and the handling is top-notch. It has good fuel efficiency. To cap it all, the warranties provided by Continental is one of the best you will find in the market at the moment.
Continental PureContact LS Tire Sizes and Specifications
The Continental Pure Contact LS comes in 29 sizes. The lightest tire for the Pure Contact LS weighs 16lbs and the heaviest comes at 28lbs. The smallest tire size is 195/55-R16, while it has several other sizes up to the largest at 245/45-R20. Compared to its predecessor, the tire has a 50 percent reduction for road noise and it has visual marks on the tire tread that provides alert when it is not performing as it should in any condition.
Tire sizes available
16”
195/55R16 87V SL BSW, 205/55R16 91V SL BSW, 205/60R16 92V SL BSW, 215/60R16 95V SL BSW
17”
205/50R17 93V XL BSW, 215/50R17 95V XL BSW, 215/55R17 94V SL BSW, 225/45R17 91H SL BSW, 225/45R17 91V SL BSW, 225/50R17 98V XL BSW, 225/55R17 97V SL BSW, 235/45R17 94H SL BSW, 235/45R17 97V XL BSW, 235/50R17 96V SL BSW, 245/45R17 99V XL BSW, 245/50R17 99V SL BSW
18”
225/40R18 92V XL BSW, 225/45R18 91V SL BSW, 235/45R18 94V SL BSW, 235/50R18 97V SL BSW, 235/55R18 100V SL BSW, 245/40R18 97V XL BSW, 245/45R18 100V XL BSW, 245/50R18 100V SL BSW
19”
235/40R19 96V XL BSW, 245/40R19 98V XL BSW, 245/45R19 102V XL BSW, 255/45R19 100V SL BSW
20”
245/45R20 99V SL BSW
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