Taycan Turbo All Season Tires

[TaycanCTCT]

Have recently received my Turbo Cross Turismo and wanted to provide some driving impressions on my wheel/tire combo - while you would think that between YouTube and the rest of the internet there would be plenty of opinions, I found limited good quality content on the topic of handling and tire spec. I never leave reviews or comments but this is my way of giving back after lurking the forums for weeks to help spec my car!

It is a daily driver for me and I live in the Northeast U.S., so I opted for 20 inch all season tires to avoid the hassle of having to switch tires twice a year. Long story short, I think it was a mistake.

Under acceleration, the tires break traction very easily starting at 70%+ throttle even at medium speeds - e.g. 40 to 60mph. The stability control is quick and it only allows for a bit of slip before it reigns everything in. Part of me thinks that it’s fun, but most of the time it feels pointless to have so much power with limited grip and a bit unsafe.

What has amazed me most about the Taycan is the ride quality and competence of the suspension. There is almost no body roll (makes the driving experience a bit sterile to be honest) and it glides over road bumps and imperfections freightenly well (pushing it I worry I’m not getting back important feedback on road conditions..maybe exasperating the issue of limited grip from the tires). You are doing 100+ mph and it feels like 40..this again is good and bad. I found that the tires grip well in the corners and are responsive to turn in and turn out, issue I have is when coming out of corners and putting power down…again not a lot of traction.

The carbon coated brakes are absurdly strong (although I don’t like how the first 10% of the brake pedal is calibrated to be almost useless at anything but parking lot speeds). Under braking I found the tires have adequate grip for the colossal power of the brakes most of the time, as long as you take the time (have the time) to transfer the weight to the front and really load the front tires. Go hard on the brakes from a flat, accelerating or steady state and you immediately get into ABS well before you are close to full brake pressure.

I have been racing cars (as an amateur) for approx 15+ years..long way of saying I’m not a pro driver by any means but I am comfortable with high performance driving and “extreme” vehicle dynamics. This car has too much performance and mass for all season tires in the summer - I find it to be borderline unsafe given how effortlessly you build speed. I will be keeping my current wheel/tire combo for the winter and get a 21 inch summer set for the warm weather. Stay safe gang.

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[W1NGE]

20" all season are a terrific compromise in my experience.

Do you have PDCC and PTV+ - if so will account for the flattest chassis control on cornering?

 

[TaycanCTCT]

20" all season are a terrific compromise in my experience.

Do you have PDCC and PTV+ - if so will account for the flattest chassis control on cornering?

Yes I have PDCC and PTV. I usually get all seasons, I just think the Turbo had too much power for them it needs a higher performance tire.

 

[TDinDC]

Have recently received my Turbo Cross Turismo and wanted to provide some driving impressions on my wheel/tire combo - while you would think that between YouTube and the rest of the internet there would be plenty of opinions, I found limited good quality content on the topic of handling and tire spec. I never leave reviews or comments but this is my way of giving back after lurking the forums for weeks to help spec my car!

It is a daily driver for me and I live in the Northeast U.S., so I opted for 20 inch all season tires to avoid the hassle of having to switch tires twice a year. Short story long, I think it was a mistake.

Under acceleration, the tires break traction very easily starting at 70%+ throttle even at medium speeds - e.g. 40 to 60mph. The stability control is quick and it only allows for a bit of slip before it reigns everything in. Part of me thinks that it’s fun, but most of the time it feels pointless to have so much power with limited grip and a bit unsafe.

What has amazed me most about the Taycan is the ride quality and competence of the suspension. There is almost no body roll (makes the driving experience a bit sterile to be honest) and it glides over road bumps and impressions freightenly well (pushing it I worry I’m not getting back important feedback on road conditions..exasperating the issue of limited grip from the tires). You are doing 100+ mph and it feels like 40..this again is good and bad. I found that the tires grip well in the corners and are responsive to turn in and turn out, issue I have is when coming out of corners and putting power down…again not a lot of traction.

The carbon coated brakes are absurdly strong (although I don’t like how the first 10% of the brake pedal is calibrated to be almost useless at anything but parking lot speeds). Under braking I found the tires have adequate grip for the colossal power of the brakes most of the time, as long as you take the time (have the time) to transfer the weight to the front and really load the front tires. Go hard on the brakes from a flat, accelerating or steady state and you immediately get into ABS well before you are close to full brake pressure.

I have been racing cars (as an amateur) for approx 15+ years..long way of saying I’m not a pro driver by any means but I am comfortable with high performance driving and “extreme” vehicle dynamics. This car has too much performance and mass for all season tires in the summer - I find it to be borderline unsafe given how effortlessly you build speed. I will be keeping my current wheel/tire combo for the winter and get a 21 inch summer set set for the warm weather. Stay safe gang.

For these reasons, I always have separate summer/winter tire/rim sets (all of my vehicles are high performance).
My reason for doing so is actually not normal day-to-day driving or the need to “win” on public streets, but rather the black swan unexpected events: the need to brake such a heavy car so quickly or to take an evasive maneuver. It may never happen, God willing, but if it does, I want the very best tools available and not to regret that I sought to avoid spring/fall tire/rim swaps or didn’t buy new tires just to save a few bucks.

 

[TaycanCTCT]

For these reasons, I always have separate summer/winter tire/rim sets (all of my vehicles are high performance).
My reason for doing so is actually not normal day-to-day driving or the need to “win” on public streets, but rather the black swan unexpected events: the need to brake such a heavy car so quickly or to take an evasive maneuver. It may never happen, God willing, but if it does, I want the very best tools available and not to regret that I sought to avoid spring/fall tire/rim swaps or didn’t buy new tires just to save a few bucks.

I agree with you, for me at least, was hard to understand the performance + weight + capability paradigm of the Taycan until I had it in my garage.

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