Owners of the Federal 595RSR most consistently praise dry grip, with value and tread life also recurring positives for road and track use. Wear experiences vary, however, and some report rapid shoulder wear or shorter service than expected. Wet grip attracts more praise than criticism, but the strongly dissatisfied minority prevents a uniformly reassuring verdict. Noise is criticised by around one in four owners, and around one in eight says grip is limited when cold or needs heat to improve. The later reviews do not show a shared ageing pattern: one owner describes different wear and feel across sizes, rather than a simple decline on one set.
What owners mention most counted across 48 reviews
Currently using it for most of my track day and since i haven't get another set of tires, i'm using it for daily drive too.
Works well on dry and quite okay in wet
Cornering feedback is superb. Previously using a comfort tire Yokohama A drive, compared with current RSR, comfort is just not a problem because motorsport. =)
This tire needs to be hot to grip well. It's even hard to reach this temperature on a regular road. You need to go and track one two circles to get a proper grip. Quite good on rain, wasn't even expecting, but it's uber hard. You need to put over 6.5bar initial pressure when you are putting this tire on a wheel so it can be fit. According to me this tire can last for ages. Very poor comfort, but what can you expect from semi-slick.
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THIS is for those of you who are looking for a REAL genuine feedback of the 595RSR. There is just too many different feedback from many diversity of the general population. Each and every individuals may have different ratings and standards. What you are looking for is a feedback that will genuinely help you understand the nature of this tire from professional drivers.
This tire is suitable for spirited to aggressive drivers with performance to high performance vehicles.
Tested on FF and FR performance vehicles with REAL-TIME Professional drivers:
90 degree Cornering at 90~120km/h: Excellent
180 degree cornering at 40~80km/h: Excellent
Full Throttle Acceleration at 0km/h to 100km/h: Excellent
Full Braking from 100 to 0km/h: Excellent
TreadWear: Below Average (Can't expect good treadlife with these tires)
Comfort/Noise: Poor (Don't expect comfortable quiet tires with these)
Additional Notes:
- Not recommended for daily commute drivers (treadlife is short on these)
- Recommended for Spirited to Aggressive Drivers.
- Handling is good for brand new tires, but degrades when you have remaining 60% thread left. So in other words Excellent handling for the first 5000 miles, and becomes average to poor for the remaining thread life.
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Had tires fitted for couple of weeks now. First test was a 300 mile round trip the length of wales on B roads. They were unbelievable in dry, felt so soft an grippy. In wet they suprised me with how much grip there was, i wasnt expecting much when the rain came down but didnt worry me at all, felt fine just like normal tires. Got trackday in two weeks so the big test is then.
been using this tires for my mirage cyborg r for 2 months already.excellent grip on dry and wet.now i can enter corner at higher speed and outrun civic type r. :) . wear and tear part i'm not sure yet.but tire that does'nt tear does'nt grip as well.what's the point having tires that does'nt tear if u are dead?
have use Toyo R-1R /Yokohama AD-07 before them,Driving mostly on mountain road & weekend track day.
They are great in dry condition with very good traction because they are wider then most competitor of same size!
They do need some negative camber for Track use or they will wear out the shoulder first!
If you don't rotate the tire they will be very quite for their full life cycle
Now one my 3rd set and still buying
Amazing, I bought a pair of these last year, ready for my Daihatsu GTti track car project, But car is not ready yet so instead decided to fit them onto the front of my daily drive, A Daihatsu YRV Turbo.
Car has been transformed from one that did not give any confidence to be thrown around, into one that does. Now it just grips and grips and I end up backing off out of fear well before any suggestion of losing grip!
Rides quite well as well, smoother than expected for a strong tire.
They are wearing well for a tire of this type, done about 3000 miles now and seem to only have worn down about 1mm, but the car is light at 930kg.
They are incredible, i used to fit Toyo R888s and Michelin sportcups and they offer same grip in dry conditions, better in wet, they have a wider temperature range, last more and are incredibly progressive.
And cheaper.
Definitely i will keep buying them.
They are not so easy to find.
