SUMITOMO ENCOUNTER HT2

Highway All-Season SUV & Light Truck Tyre

A highway all-season SUV and light truck tyre designed to deliver improved dry handling, wet braking, quiet comfort, extended tread life, and dependable year-round traction. Ideal for SUVs, pickups, crossovers, full-sized vans, and light trucks that need a comfortable highway tyre with strong wet-road and daily-use performance.

The Sumitomo Encounter HT2 is the updated highway-terrain option listed under the 4×4 category on Sumitomo Malaysia’s tyre finder. Tire Rack describes it as a highway all-season tyre for pickups, SUVs, crossovers, and full-sized vans, built to provide dependable year-round traction with a smooth and quiet ride. TBC also states that the Encounter HT2 delivers improved dry handling and wet braking, along with extended tread life and a smooth, quiet ride.

The HT2 improves the highway SUV formula with design details aimed at comfort and wet safety. Smooth curved shoulder grooves help reduce road noise and vibration, wave-shaped lateral sipes improve braking power on wet and dry roads, and wide circumferential grooves channel water away to improve wet grip and hydroplaning resistance. This makes it suitable for drivers who use SUVs or pickups for long-distance highway travel, daily family driving, and light-duty work use.