Bfgoodrich Advantage T/A Sports LT Review

Bfgoodrich Advantage T/A Sports LT Review: The applications of the BFGoodrich Advantage T/A Sports LT tires are very straightforward. Its applications are on-road and all-season. This tire is designed to work exceptionally high on the road and in all four seasons.  Its performance on snow is much better than most All-Season tires. In simple terms, it has a great road-focused performance that can resist all types of weather.

When you read or hear the term sports being used on vehicles, more often, it’s the SUVs that come into your mind. Everyone in the world right now wants something that is sporty; from footwear, clothes, cars, and now tires. Almost everyone wants a piece of the sporty pie. Some tag the sporty brand on their merchandise because the wordy sport is associated with something which is trendy. The word sporty is also associated with high quality or high performance.

So, what exactly did BFGoodrich have in mind when using the word sports on their tire? Was it because the tire is trendy, or was it because the tire’s performance can be equitable to that of a Formula 1 tire or that of any other motor racing vehicle?

Well, no, because the BFGoddrich Advantage T/A Sports LT tire is a touring all-season car made for family SUVs, light trucks, and crossovers. BFGoodrich is primarily a performance tire company. The Sports tag on the tire was most likely inspired by this. Engineers baked a diversity of different features into the tire in order to provide a wide range of capabilities. This tire is engineered to perform better in a variety of year-round driving conditions.

Bfgoodrich Advantage T/A Sports LT Review

The Advantage T/A Sports LT employs an array of technologies and techniques with the aim of producing tires that can stand out in a pool of exceptional tires manufactured by rival Companies. BFGoodrich claims that they improved on the performance by a certain percentage of this tire compared to its predecessors.

BFGoodrich used unique technology to achieve its uniqueness. The following is a quick overview of these features.

• When traveling on wet pavement or light snow, BFGoodrich uses a superior silica-enhanced tire compound, symmetric tread pattern, and locking 3D Active siping technology to provide increased grip and traction.
• The 3-peak mountain/snowflake logo on the BFG Sport LT indicates that it meets or surpasses the industry’s stringent snow service requirements. This isn’t something you’ll see on a lot of all-season tires.
• Because this tire’s tread patterns are symmetrical, they can easily be rotated in a cross pattern. This is vital for extending the treadlife of your tires since it ensures that they wear evenly.
• A firm and continuous center rib is also present in the tread pattern, ensuring a consistent contact patch with the road. This increases steering response and stability.
• An optimized footprint with the Next Generation ETEC (Equal TEnsion Containment) system is also engineered into this tire. Based on BFGoodrich’s website, this technology’s aim is to offer confident handling and stability when driving the vehicle at high speed.
• By distributing excess water from these tires through the unique sweeping cross grooves, Aqua-Flume technology minimizes hydroplaning.
• The Advantage T/A Sport LT’s interior construction includes a two-ply polyester casing with two wide steel belts for added stability and high-speed performance, as well as spirally-wrapped nylon. The g-Wedge Sidewall Stabilizer inserts from the next generation help minimize deformation when cornering.
• The BFGoodrich Advantage T/A comes with two warranties based on the speed rate of the tire, which depends on the tire’s diameter. The V-rated tires have a 60,000-mile limited treadwear warranty while the T & H Rated tires come with a warranty of 65,000.

Advantage T/A Sports LT All-Season Features

The Advantage T/A Sports LT is an all-season tire. It is made with features that make it a perfect fit for a drive in all four seasons of the year while maintaining its stability, comfort, traction, and other functionalities. While at it, it still offers great durability.

What is impressive about this tire is that you won’t necessarily need to buy deep winter specializes tires. This tire has better snow traction than any other all-season tire. For starters, it complies with the industry’s stringent snow service standards and bears the three-peak mountain snowflake (3PMSF) sign. This mark indicates whether a tire is suitable for use in heavy snow. However, experts advise you to use a specialized wintry tire when you intend to drive on deep snow.

Advantage T/A Sport LT tires have an advanced all-season tread compound that is molded into a symmetrical design, allowing easy cross rotation to resist irregular wear. The tire’s continuous center rib is designed to create constant contact with the road, and combined with the optimized footprint provided by the Next Generation ETEC (Equal TEnsion Containment) System, delivers confident handling and high-speed stability.

The wide, circumferential grooves efficiently channel water through the contact patch for greater hydroplaning resistance, while full-depth tread characteristics help to give traction mile after mile. Sipes with 3D Active Sipe Technology provides a higher number of biting edges for better wet and light snow traction.

Now, let us see how the Advantage TA Sports LT performs in individual weather and temperature condition.

How is the Advantage TA Sports LT performance on Dry tarmac? 

In this section, I will explain the performance of the tire on Dry tarmac, on wet and slippery surfaces, on snow and wintry roads. First, let us talk about its performance on dry roads. You’ll notice improved cornering stability and dry handling performance thanks to its symmetrical design and ETEC System technology, which optimizes the tire footprint.

How is the Advantage TA Sports LT’s performance on wet, dry, and muddy surfaces?

Goodrich tried to offer comfort while driving on wet surfaces by incorporating two important technologies in the manufacture of this tire. One of them is the incorporation of the 3D Sipe Acive Technology that ensures that the thread’s cutting edge frequency is increased.

Secondly, the full-depth grooves, including four wide circumferential grooves, are featured in the tread design. These enhance the tire’s capacity to conduct water out of the tread, minimizing hydroplaning and enhancing wet-surface traction. This technology is called the Aqua-Flume Technology.

You would imagine that with these technologies, BFGoodrich would compete with its peers. Based on reviews from customers, it falls short of the standards set by others. The hydroplaning resistance is adequate, but not outstanding. Furthermore, the tire lacks the grip seen in the best all-season touring tires.

As a result, cornering is less natural, and you may encounter understeer early on. Additionally, the braking distances are longer than the finest tires in this category.

Performance on the snowy and wintry roads

If there is an area where this tire excels ahead of its peers is its performance on snowy and wintry surfaces. BFgoodrich themselves prided in the fact that this tire outperforms other all-season tires on snow by 30%. It also has the 3-peak mountain/snowflake insignia on its sidewall, indicating that it complies with the Rubber Manufacturers Association’s extreme snow conditions specifications.

When traveling in light snow, BFGoodrich uses a superior silica-enhanced tire compound, symmetric tread design, and locking 3D Active siping technology to provide better grip and traction.

Whereas this tire performs way better than other all-season tires on snow, note that you should not replace it with a wintry tire in deep winter. While non-winter tires, with the three-peak mountain snowflake (3PMSF) emblem, may provide more longitudinal snow traction than all-season (M+S) tires without the symbol, they cannot compete with the capacity of a true winter tire in all weather conditions.

Off-Road capabilities?

BFGoodrich Advantage TA Sport LT does not have off-road capabilities. To avoid destruction to the tire, don’t make it a habit of driving off-road. Minimize contact with rough terrains.

Is Bfgoodrich Advantage T A Sport LT Sporty? 

You would expect tire-tagged ‘sports’ to come with racing features. The Advantage TA Sport LT is not a sport’s tire as such. It is not fitted with thread that can offer the needed traction, handling, cornering that is needed while driving at high speed on the racing track.

Durability and Warranty

This tire is very durable. The Advantage T/A Sport LT’s interior construction includes a two-ply polyester casing with two wide steel belts for added stability and high-speed performance, as well as spirally-wrapped nylon. The g-Wedge Sidewall Stabilizer inserts from the next generation help minimize deformation when cornering.

BFGoodrich used a revolutionary all-season tread compound that was injected with silica and molded into a current tread pattern. Because the design is symmetrical, these tires can easily be rotated in a cross pattern. This is vital for extending the treadlife of your tires since it ensures that they wear evenly.

T-speed and H-speed rated models have a treadwear warranty of 65,000 miles, while V-speed rated models have a treadwear warranty of 60,000 miles. While these warranties aren’t the best in the industry, they are exceptional for the price.

Comfort and handling 

When it comes to comfort, the BFGoodrich brand is unrivaled. The quality is undeniable, as it delivers a fantastic and comfortable riding experience. The road noise is also well-attenuated.

Bfgoodrich Advantage T A Sport LT Tire Sizes

This tire’s diameter comes in 6 different sizes. The 4 sizes also come in different sub-sizes.

The sizes are16 inches, 17 inches. 18 inches, 19 inches, 20 inches.

16″

215/70R16 100H BSW, 215/70R16 100T BSW, 225/70R16 103T BSW, 235/70R16 106T BSW, 245/70R16 107T BSW, 245/75R16 111T BSW, 255/70R16 111T BSW, 265/75R16 116T BSW

17″

225/65R17 102H BSW, 225/65R17 102T BSW, 235/65R17 104T BSW, 245/65R17 107T BSW, 245/70R17 110T BSW, 255/65R17 110T BSW, 265/65R17 112T BSW, 265/70R17 115T BSW

18″

235/60R18 103V BSW, 235/65R18 106H BSW, 235/65R18 106T BSW, 245/60R18 105H BSW, 255/55R18/XL 109V BSW, 265/60R18 110T BSW, 255/65R18 111T BSW, 265/70R18 116T BSW

19″

225/55R19 99H BSW, 235/55R19 101H BSW, 245/55R19 103T BSW, 255/60R19 109H BSW

20″

235/55R20 102H BSW, 245/50R20 102H BSW, 275/55R20 113T BSW

Conclusion

The BFGoodrich Advantage T/A Sport LT All-Season Radial Tire is a solid pick among all-season touring tires if you’re searching for a pleasant and long-lasting tire — the riding quality is certainly a good catch. In any case, its overall performance in dry and wet roads lags behind that of the best all-terrain touring tires.