Owners largely rate the Continental Premium Contact 6 for its strong all-round grip, with around half praising dry grip and a similar share highlighting reassuring wet performance, backed up by positive comments on handling and steering feel. The biggest recurring downsides are refinement and durability: roughly two in five mention road noise (more often as a complaint than a praise), and around a third report faster-than-expected wear. Comfort impressions are mixed but lean positive, with some owners enjoying a plush ride while others find it firm or harsh, particularly on rougher roads.
What owners mention most counted across 115 reviews
Absolute great tire that is family oriented. The road noise and comfort level is nice for journeys, so much comfort in fact that I regret that I didn’t go lower in profile size. The tire lasted me very long time until one of them got puncture at end of their life around 4mm thread. Note that I’ve done several skidding and etc with these tires yet they lasted somehow around 60 000km.
These tires have great handling, nothing to complain and it handles rain great. You can drive around 90mph highway on a bad rain day with confidence knowing that water puddle won’t do anything to the tires. The break distance on these tire is phenomenal, seriously like the ABS never kicks in on dry let alone barely on wet road.
Previously used Falken 310 and Pirelli PZ4. Read from previous reviews the downsides are mainly increased noise and less comfort.
However, in my experience after driving with these for almost half year, and I am a someone who prefers comfort and quietness rather than all out handling, I find the noise level very liveable, hardly disturbing. And the comfort is reasonably good. To be honest, I'm not quite bothered.
The performance, Wow!. Amazingly good. Esp on dry. Immediately felt after changing. The car feels more upright, less prone to lean on doing the bends and very planted on the roads. Very confidence inspiring! And the road feedback is much improved surprisingly, given the Audi has very light steering.
Wet performance is also very good. I don't drive crazy fast but the difference is obvious, less ABS activation esp in wet car parks.
All in all, a really good tire and I'd happily recommend it.
However, there's now the CPC 7, looks like I have to try that next!
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Outstanding in the wet, especially through corners. Ditto in the dry.
Cornering is 11/10.
My car has a great chassis set up, so these tires work well.
Trade off, as usual, wear and perhaps comfort. Small details.
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I have been using these tires for the last 5 years, 215/50/17 91W.
Overall impression is very positive, only comment would be the road noise when the tire is not yet warm (lower outside temperatures).
Other than that, excellent predictability of handling, superior wet and dry braking, good comfort and no drastic change in its capabilities during the lifespan. Not catching small rocks from the road like the Dunlop / Uniroyal tires, no isses with soft sides like Goodyear, not plastic like Pirelli.
I would definitely buy this tire again.
new Tuscan came with continental tires front tires wore out after 8500 miles very disappointing i was told they are made of soft rubber and not suitable for a heavy car
Usual Continental competence rather than excellence, but still a decent tire overall. If people think this tire is noisy, wait until they try a PS4 or Eagle F1 SuperSport. The Premium 6 is whisper quiet compared to those two in 225/40/18 size.
In common with many modern assymetric tread patterns, tramlining and aquaplaning get significantly worse as you approach the 2mm wear limit (few people ever mention that), so I will be interested to see how the Premium 6 compares to the PS4 and F1 SS when it's almost spent. The F1 SS in particular is horrendous for tramlining when it's down to 3mm.
These tires came OE with my 2022 VW Polo and I have really mixed opinions about them
Let's start off with the good
They handle....amazing in dry conditions. Road feedback is superb and they do exactly what they need to. Too early for a wear review, but handling wise they handle amazing. Braking is top notch, wet handling is also actually pretty damn good. And the tires are actually quite comfy too
Now the bad
The road noise is some of the worst I've ever experienced in a tire. It's so bad that, even though they have only just over 6 000km on the set, I'm honestly considering changing them. That may not bother some people but it gets to me, especially that I do mostly highway and long trips
It isn't necessarily a deal breaker, as the handling and feedback from the tire is great. But just something to definitely consider when buying the tire
Dry: They are very good tires for dry performance, good steering response and make the car feel more darty than with some previous UHP tires I've had.
Wet: While good in the wet when new, as soon as these tires near 4 then 3mm their performance starts to dramatically reduce in both wet handling and braking as they seem to be less able to key into the surface. This is especially prevalent when it is cold too.
Wear: They wear reasonably well but I will now be switching to the Michelin Pilot Sport 5 for the promised wear benefits as these only lasted me 16k (about 10k of this I reckon is motorway so not wearing much at all) on the front axle of a hot hatch and when on the rear they barely wear.
Comfort: While fairly comfortable they are defiantly not the most comfortable tire I have used and you can still feel a lot of the road surface through the steering wheel etc.
Noise: At 72dB which is the rating for my size they are quite loud but perfectly fine over smooth tarmac. However on uneven or rough road they are very loud and I wouldn't recommend for a quiet tire
Have them on for a year now...
They are very good in the dry.
They are very bad in the wet.
Worst tires I ever had in the wet, had Premium Contact 5 before these, they were way better in the wet.
With these in the wet the traction control and ABS work overtime.
Strange for Continental...
I have had Conti premium for the last 8 years, they were all great.
These are scrap.
They have lasted under 15,000 miles of gentle driving on the front of the car (ie not the driving wheels, and I never turn the car steering when stationary).
Other than that they are okay.
I wanted to try PC6 after a set of Falken Ziex ZE310. After a few hundred miles, I switched back to Falken. Falken seems to do a better job in the dry at the things that matter to me: cornering, braking, steering response. Maybe because of the soft beads and thin sidewalls of PC6, they didn't performed well at these..
at least in the size of 195/65r15 and with the factory Porsche 924S suspension and tire pressure setup (29-36psi)
No clue about wet performance.. but according to the tests, PC6 is bad at aquaplanning as well..
