The Three A P606 receives more praise than criticism for dry and wet grip, low noise and value, with 27 of 47 reviews positive overall. Comfort also attracts favorable comments, and mid-life and end-of-life reports generally support useful tread life, though mileage varies. A minority describe soft sidewalls and less precise steering, so the comfort does not always come with sharp responses. Several separate owners also report sidewall bulges or separation, rather than ordinary tread wear, although these are not the majority experience. One repeat owner remains positive through an end-of-life report, but that individual history does not establish a shared ageing pattern.
What owners mention most counted across 46 reviews
I bought these as a comfort/winter runaround tires for my MX5. I have been surprised by the grip in both wet and dry, comparable to good quality Falkens for example. Turn in is definitely softer than sports tires but this is to be expected. These tires do have very soft sidewalls so wouldn't take well to abuse such as kerbing and might be more subject to damage from sharp edged potholes, they do however give a very comfortable ride without noticeable tire noise. All in all a good alternative at the low price and much more capable than other "cheap" Chinese tires.
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These came on a car I've just bought. The tire sidewalls have 'M&S' on them but the only P606 model I can find are being sold as summer tires. Anyone else have P606 on them with 'M&S' markings on the sidewalls?
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Had these put on my old b5 a4 estate. Its only a cheap runaround so didnt want to spend over 200 for 4 new tires when i bought it. Got 4 of these 3a's for about £130 and have to say im impressed. Its hard to say in all honesty as i havent really ran other tires on this car for a period of time, but had cooper zeons 4's on my old car before, these dont compare to them performance wise but for a budget theyre very good. They grip well in the dry, when pushing it a little in the wet they soon let go though. Tire noise doesnt seem excessive and they wear very well. Still have 4mm left on the front and nearly full tread on the back. Will swap them over shortly too. Overall 7/10 and would buy again.
I used these tires on a Fiat Croma and I replaced the first set after 55.000 miles with 2mm left.
With the second set of Three I had an accident in Scotland and I destroyed the front drive tire, I was in the middle of nothing without breakdown service in that area. I driven more 23 miles ( 15 miles/h ) until the first garage available and the tires was still good without any damage to the alloy wheel.
I'll buy again with no problem. Great price. normally bought in 50£ each fitted.
I driven my Bmw 728i already 500 miles,absolutly amazing this tires.185 quid all 4 tires is not bad and rain or dry,this tires are realy very good.And handling and brake and noise,everything feels very well!RECOMMENDED TYRES.Buy with confidence.Don't listen are not safe or made in China,bla bla bla.Nowadays life is changed ridicolous,is the time and for others to be in pole position,not only the big brands.Try them!!! Brilliant
I bought my car with 2 of these already fitted. I had a lot of steering vibration and one was loosing air so I visited my local tire dealer who found that the inner sidewall had de-laminated on the inside. He replaced the tire with a brand new one of the same make and model, Three A P606.
Fast forward 3 months and I had similar steering vibration issues. My tire dealer checked the remaining Three A that was on the car when I bought it and found that this also was suffering with inner sidewall de-lamination. He then checked the recent Three A tire that he fitted and found that this also was suffering from the same defect. He replaced this tire FOC.
The car was mainly used for long motorway driving, the tires were never abused and regularly check for correct pressure. I could expect the odd one being defect, but 3??? From different batches??? I've read others comment on the overly soft sidewalls of this tire, maybe this is a contributing factor.
This experience has put me off budget tires completely, especially this brand. Avoid!
Having scrubbed a new set of 4 in over 500 miles, the grip in wet & dry is getting better all the time - provides predictable behavior on most surfaces, positive braking feel.
i am verry dissapointed by these tires i guese i should have done some more research. the sidewal is too soft for me.
before i had some continentals i had good response when hard steering. changed all 4 tires into these tires and my car feels like driving on jellypuding. gona buy other tires soon.
These tires were bought for a road trip around Europe, there were chosen based on reviews and price ( £40 each fitted). Fitted to the front only, as good Tyro CF2's on rear. I was expecting the A606 to have a bit less grip than the CF2's so on the limit the car would under-steer.
The first thousand miles was general day to day city driving in the UK. There were no problems with the tires, didn't notice any issues, they grip, are not noisy, would squeal in the dry if provoked and slide in the wet if provoked. Never had any unexpected lose of grip or handling issues.
Next 4000 miles was a trip around Europe, they performed fine of the motorways / Autobahns, nice ride, fairly quiet, solid Handling even at 115 mph.
Over the Alps with Spirited driving no real issues, squeals on hairpins, but no massive under-steer. On most Alpine twisty roads you have trouble going over 40mph ( unless you have a death wish ) due to the twists/ turns, steepness to the road and lack of performance due to the Altitude.
Around the coast roads in mixed Motorway and country road driving the tires behaved the same as they did in the City back home. No surprises, no issues. Coped with a heat wave and one very violent storm ( lots of standing water, almost no vision, so drove slowly ).
On the way back to the UK went to the nurburgring, this is were the tires showed there only weakness. As the car is 11 years old and has 150,000 miles on the clock the laps of the nurburgring were done as a very fast cruise. The day was very hot, the track was very hot. About 8 miles into the lap the ABS suddenly kicked in, I thought I had hit some oil or something. A couple of corners later the ABS kicked in again, from then on the car have chronic under-steer until the end of the lap. Back at the car park I saw the tire was melting badly. Did another lap driving smoother, Tire still went off after 8-9 miles. The rear Tyros never give a problem.
Once the P606's had cooled down, a quick drive on normal roads cleaned them up and they were back to normal. ( maybe its not a good idea to try and do a fairly fast lap of the nurburgring on inexpensive tires ).
Back in the UK after over 5000 miles hard use there is still just under 5mm of tread left.
Summary, A good general purpose tire. Not the best, but certainly not the worst. If you are a day to day driver looking for a affordable, but reliable tire I would say ( based on the tire size and car combination I used ) that you could do a lot worse than the P606.
I have fitted these tires to my MG ZS and so far these are the best budget/mid range tires I have bought for my car and for just under £50 per tire fitted, you cannot grumble for that kind of price. The grip you get in the dry including the response and handling is excellent compared to my last tire which was the Falken ZE914 and the grip in the wet is just about the same from the last tire I had fitted. As for the wear on these tires, I can't really comment because I've only done 500 miles so far on them but the comfort and road noise again is far better than my last tire as mentioned above. I will definitely be buying these tires again in the future for that kind of price and highly recommended.
