Nankang Winter Activa SV 4 Test Results

The Nankang Winter Activa 4 receives poor ratings on dry and winter roads resulting in poor overall driving safety, with only satisfactory wet performance and adequate environmental ratings for a poor overall judgment. On dry roads, it shows poor responsiveness and steering feedback with very imprecise handling requiring constant corrections, oversteering tendencies during dynamic maneuvers with adequate limit behavior, and narrowly misses good braking distances. On wet surfaces, it achieves only satisfactory ratings across all criteria including braking, aquaplaning resistance, and handling with moderate grip levels and the need for better force combination. In winter conditions, it receives poor ratings overall despite satisfactory snow braking and traction performance, with poor handling due to inadequate force combination resulting in very imprecise control, very low limits, and early under/oversteering tendencies, plus adequate ice braking performance. This Chinese-manufactured tire receives adequate environmental ratings with the lowest predicted mileage in the test, satisfactory tire wear, and narrowly missing good efficiency ratings.