Uniroyal Tiger Paw Touring Review & Rating for 2024

That is exactly what the Tiger Paw Touring attempts to achieve. An all-season tire for compact cars, coupes, crossovers, and sedans, the main traits of this tire are great durability, high levels of comfort, all-season traction, and (you guessed it) a low price point. 

If you look closely, you might notice that all these qualities are highly sought-after, especially by drivers whose daily routine takes them on a highway. In theory, then, the Tiger Paw Touring offers everything to force the passenger cars’ owners to take notice.

Unfortunately, the reality is a little different. While this tire performs brilliantly on dry roads, its performance on wet surfaces does harm to its claim of being an all-season tire. Read on to find out why we think that’s the case.

Uniroyal Tiger Paw Touring Review: Test Drive

How well does this tire perform on the dry tarmac? Does it slip on wet pavements? Can you trust it to carry you safely on a road buried under feet of snow? To answer all these (and more) questions, we took the Tiger Paw Touring on a test drive. Read on to know more about how it performed.

Treadwear and Durability

Regardless of the size which may fit your vehicle, all Tiger Paw Touring tires come with either 65,000 miles or a 75,000-mile warranty on their treadwear. Know why that’s the case? Well, that’s because of the Tru-form technology we discussed earlier.

A tire’s treadwear goes south when there are some points in the tread which experience more pressure (stress) than others. The Tru-Form technology, meanwhile, doesn’t allow this to happen. It evenly distributes the tire’s pressure to prevent the buildup of any stress points in the first place.

Then comes the Dura Shield technology. As stated earlier, it reinforces the tire’s steel belts by supplementing them with a heavy gauge inner liner. Even if you frequently travel on poorly built roads, both these features would ensure the tire maintain its optimum shape, thereby making it durable.

Dry Performance

When we’re gauging the dry performance of any tire, we always have a four-pronged criterion: braking power, traction, cornering, and high-speed stability. Impressively for a budget tire, the Tiger Paw Touring ticked all these four boxes with aplomb.

Even when you’re driving it at its speed limit, the tire would continue to provide ample grip when cornering. Perhaps that’s why we had no problems with its braking, though each driver has their own style and there might be some of you won’t like its huge traction.

This tire performs so supremely on dry roads, in part, due to its shoulder tread block design. It empowers the tire’s external blocks to stay rigid under pressure, thereby improving its performance. Similar is the case with this tire’s braking power which relies on its friction to remain exceptional.

Wet Performance

Uniroyal was particularly concerned when designing this tire for wet surfaces. The reason we’re aware of this fact is that its full depth channels didn’t allow us to draw any other conclusion. Even when you’re driving through deep puddles, they make sure that the tire’s contact with the road remains optimal.

Perhaps that’s why we didn’t experience hydroplaning when driving this tire under the rain. Its well-rounded channels adequately feel water through its circumference, to make sure it stays in contact with the ground, thereby removing any chances of any untoward incident.

Snow & Ice

Reasonable but not amazing. That’s the impression we had when we drove this tire in light, compressible snow. Since it is a little softer than your average all-season tire, the Tiger Paw Touring has that flexibility which you need in winter conditions.

Its center channels, meanwhile, are wide enough to physically grip the ground in conditions where other summer tires would falter. Still, it’s worth remembering that you aren’t looking at a full-blown snow tire here – those which have indents dotting the entire circumference.

Rather, the best these tires can do is to get you safely across roads that are blanketed with soft snow. Increase the rate or concentration of the snow, and we won’t recommend taking out these tires for a drive.

Noise and Comfort

What do you expect from a tire which is made of soft and compressible rubber? Before you answer this question, consider this piece of information: the tire has many large blocks to make sure it maintains its contact with the road at all times.

If you have taken some time to process the information, you might arrive at the same conclusion as we did after driving them: the Tiger Paw Touring doesn’t make for a hugely comfortable ride. That means that the passengers should be ready for a slightly harder ride.

In other words, you’d always get a tire that operates more quietly (and smoothly) than this one. Though, those tires would always fare worse in snow and rain, provided they are available at the same price as the Tiger Paw Touring.