Barum Polaris 3: The Ideal Winter Tire for Your Passenger Car
Exceptional Performance for Compact to Upper-Class Vehicles and SUVs
The Barum Polaris 3 is designed to provide outstanding grip and performance at an attractive price point, making it a great choice for vehicles like the Volkswagen Golf, Opel Astra, and Ford Focus. This tire is engineered to handle winter conditions with ease, offering optimized acceleration and braking on snow-covered roads.
Key Features and Benefits
The Polaris 3 is not only budget-friendly but also boasts low wear, extending its lifespan and reducing your vehicle's fuel consumption. Here are some of its standout features:
Low Rolling Resistance: Thanks to an additional groove in the shoulder block, the tire minimizes rolling resistance, helping to reduce fuel consumption.
Enhanced Wet Handling: The large shoulder block with an extra longitudinal groove enhances stability and creates a windshield wiper effect, significantly improving handling on wet surfaces.
Superior Snow Traction: Equipped with 'snow catchers' that retain snow in the grooves, the Polaris 3 ensures optimized acceleration and controlled braking on snowy roads.
Technical Details
The Barum Polaris 3 is crafted with precision to meet the demands of winter driving:
Rolling Resistance: The additional groove in the shoulder block reduces rolling resistance, aiding in fuel efficiency.
Wet Handling: A large shoulder block with an added longitudinal groove maintains block stability and enhances wet handling through a wiper-like effect.
Snow Traction: Specially designed 'snow catchers' hold snow within the grooves, ensuring optimal traction and braking on snow-covered roads.
Choose the Barum Polaris 3 for reliable performance and safety during the winter season, all while keeping your budget in check.
Black on white - the price is right.
For compact-, middle-, and upper-class vehicles and SUVs. Good grip in snow.
Barum offers affordable long lasting performance
Optimised setting-off and braking in snow
Fits perfectly for example to Volkswagen Golf, Opel Astra and Ford Focus
The Polaris 3 is the ideal tire for economical drivers since its low wear ensures a high mileage performance and its low rolling resistance results in reduced fuel consumption. ‘Snow catchers‘ in the tread keep the snow in the groove, making it possible for the Polaris 3 to transfer the power of the engine to the snowy slopes when accelerating and provides an excellent braking performance.
Technical details:
Low rolling resistance, resulting in reduced fuel consumption
Improved handling in the wet
Optimised setting-off and braking in snow
Low wear means highmileage performance
Optimised setting-off and braking in snow. 'Snow catchers' keep the snow in the grooves, optimise start-up on snowy roads and enable controlled braking.
Low rolling resistance and reduced fuel consumption. An extra groove in the shoulder block minimises rolling resistance and therefore also fuel consumption.
Low wear means high mileage performance. Sipes of different depths, arranged obliquely to the block edge, ensure low tyre wear. This increases durability and cost efficiency.
The Tire Labeling Ordinance specifies the information requirements on fuel efficiency, wet grip and external rolling noise from tires. In addition, reference is made to the winter properties of the product.
The EU 1222/2009 regulation that has been in force since November 1st, 2012 has been revised and will be replaced by regulation EU 2020/740 from May 1st, 2021; From this point on, new requirements apply. The rating classes for fuel efficiency, wet grip and exterior noise have been changed and the layout of the EU label has been adjusted. The manufacturer's product data sheets stored in the EU database can be downloaded via a QR code integrated into the label. Information on snow grip and ice grip is also newly included for tires that meet these criteria.
The following tires are exempt from the regulation: - tires that are designed exclusively for installation on vehicles that were first registered before October 1, 1990 - retreaded tires (until a corresponding extension of EU VO 2020/740 has taken place) - professional off - Road tires - Racing tires - Tires with additional devices to improve traction, eg studded tires - T-type emergency tires - Tires with a permissible speed below 80 km/h - Tires for rims with a nominal diameter ≤ 254 mm or ≥ 635 mm
The criteria and evaluation classes at a glance
fuel efficiency
The fuel consumption depends on the rolling resistance of the tyres, the vehicle itself, the driving conditions and the driving style of the driver. The measured rolling resistance (rolling resistance coefficient) of the tire is divided into classes A (highest efficiency) to E (lowest efficiency).
If a vehicle is completely equipped with class A tires, a consumption reduction of up to 7.5%* is possible compared to class E tyres. In the case of commercial vehicles, it can even be higher. (Source: European Commission Impact Assessment * when measured according to the test methods set out in Regulation (EU) 2020/740)
Please note: Fuel consumption depends to a large extent on your own driving style and can be significantly reduced by driving in an environmentally friendly manner. Tire pressure should be checked regularly to improve fuel efficiency.
wet grip
Wet grip is divided into classes A (shortest braking distance) - E (longest braking distance).
If a car is equipped with class A tires, compared to class E tires, a braking distance of up to 18 m can be reduced when braking from 80 km/h (on a road surface with average grip).* *Source: wdk Economic Association of the German Rubber Industry eV
Please note: Traffic safety depends to a large extent on your own driving style. The stopping distances must always be observed. Tire pressure should be checked regularly to improve wet grip.
External rolling noise
The noise emitted by a tire affects the overall volume of the vehicle and affects not only your own driving comfort, but also the noise pollution of the environment. In the EU tire label, the external rolling noise is divided into 3 classes from A (lowest rolling noise) - C (highest rolling noise), measured in decibels (dB) and compared with the European noise emission limit values for external tire rolling noise.
A The pictogram with the classification "A" indicates that the tire's external rolling noise is more than 3 dB below the EU limit value in force until 2016. B The "B" classification means that the tyre's external rolling noise is up to 3 dB below or equal to the EU limit value in force until 2016. C The classification "C" indicates that the specified limit value is exceeded.
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