Continental  ContiProContact SSR

This is a great tire all-around and matched to the E90/E92 BMW 3-Series very well, which is probably why it's the original equipment tire provided by BMW. It's a sporty enough tire to have fun in terms of acceleration, braking and cornering, but also provides good all-season (wet) performance with pretty decent treadwear life. I highliy recommend it and have fitted nothing else to my car during the 12 years I've had it.

BMW with base suspension 3 series and AWD. Excellent run-flat tire, do not notice excessive noise or harshness. Traction in rain/snow is very good. If one hits a pothole, there is increased feedback. However, I would take that minimal disturbance to completely changing the characteristics of the suspension's unsprung mass by using non run-flats tires.

OEM tires on a 2010 Mini Cooper S Hardtop, and my first experience with Continental Tires. Overall I'm satisfied with the tires as far as performance and wear go, although I'm looking to switch to Michelins in the next few weeks since the tread is just about down to the wear bars. (Fell in love with Michelins a few years ago when I got a set on sale for my Honda. They lasted close to 80,000 miles with great performance throughout the life of the tire. Based on that, got a set for my Explorer and when the tires on the Harley come due, switching them to Mickeys as well.)
Was a little dubious about "run flat" tires, but since having two punctures, I'm very pleased with that particular feature. The owners manual says they can be driven up to 80 miles with zero pressure in the tire as long as you don't exceed 50 MPH. In both cases, I only had to drive a few miles to get the tire repaired.
Cornering, stability, and traction on dry pavement is outstanding. Wet performance is excellent. Can't really comment on snow performance since we get little of it in this part of Kentucky. Other people commenting have slammed the mileage life of the tires, and they have worn faster than other tires I have owned (Goodyear, Dunlop, Kumho, Firestone, Bridgestone)but I think that is to be expected with a tire designed with performance in mind, especially when your driving style is "spirited."

These came with purchase at 12k miles. I rode them to
40k. Got a second pair and am at 90k. Time to
Purchase. The fronts do burn quickly but that is normal. Great traction. Really holds the road. I live in Northeast and always buy winter specific tires. I rode these all seasons thru the winter and loved them. Yes the All4 helps but I was surprised at how good they run in snow. Only negative? The run flats are so stiff on any pothole bump frost heave. Rattles your teeth.

Wow Ive to say that this tires has impressed me. I'm one paranoid driving in snow condition that I always purchase snow tires. I purchased my new BMW and this tires came with my car. I was a little nervous as the same week we were expecting another snow storm. Wow this tires by my surprise have the best traction. Even better than my Bridgestone blizzard. I'll def purchase it again. Love it..

My wife has had these tires on her 2009 BMW E92 328ix Coupe for 3 years and about 22K miles. They were new when she got the car and they are nowhere near worn out. She does a fair amoung of freeway driving at 70-80 MPH and the tires are smooth, quiet (for a 3-series sports coupe) and have been pleasing to drive. Handling is quite good, and bending corners is a real pleasure with these tires - they seem to have good "stick." Although they're run-flats, they are only slightly more harsh than a standard time over bumps and seams in pavement. Winter and snow traction has been pretty good, and she has never had a problem getting around in snow. all in all we're pretty pleased with these. We don't know yet how much mileage we'll get out of them, but we're encouraged by the fact that the tires still have good tread depth.

I've been interested in RF's ever since reading about early developments 30 years ago or so. When I got my Mini I figured I would give them a try. I have to say, if roads were perfect, these tires would not be bad.



For me, the wear was the most positive thing. Lasting almost 45K is something I never expected. The dry traction was great and try as hard as I could, I never did break them loose on the street (never had them on the track though).



There are 2 things that really made me hate this tire: HARSH Ride and Unpredictability. I guess I should have known, if you can drive on it flat they're going to be harsh but this was ridiculous. Every little seam, joint, ridge whatever was transmitted up. Kinda fun for the first week around town. Very tiring on a long trip.



The most disappointing thing was the terrifying transitions when hitting a seam not quite perpendicular when coming around a curve with less than perfect camber. Unprepared, it feels like something huge just jerked the wheel out of your hand. Very unnerving. I learned to live with it but never really got used to it. I never have driven with a death grip on the wheel but I began to with these tires. Just not worth it.



Overall, the negatives outweigh the positives for me. I would not recommend nor would I buy these tires again.

These were OEM on my MINI Clubman S and I would not buy these tires again. Dry performance was excellent for the first 15-18k, but rapidly dropped off the last 2-3k. Ride comfort was harsh, especially combined with the MINI's sport suspension. However the stiff side walls did provide excellent responsiveness.

Performance in the snow and ice was poor. Part of it can be attributed to the low profile and wide tread, but even in light snow these struggled.

The major reason I would not purchase these tires are many repair shops (including all of the Tire Rack certified installers in my area) will not patch these tires. This is because Continental issued a technical bulletin that strongly advise shops not to repair SSR tires. That makes these extremely expensive disposable tires.

I've replaced them with non-run flat Continental ExtremeContact DWS.

I replaced the original Bridgestone Turanza EL 42 with these tires, although traction is a little better with these tires, the ride is horrible. it feels like riding on rocks. Vibration is tolerable as long as you are driving below 40 MPH, as you accelerate to highway speed your wrist will hurt after an hour drive to Boston. Dry traction is good, snow traction is average, with ice... forget about it! minimal traction (still better than no traction with the EL 42)
I am already contemplating replacing them with standard tires. No good RFT available at this time
I would definitely NOT recommend those tires to anybody.

Contrary to some reviews I feel these are phenomenal run flats for the money. They came stock on my third 3-series. In contrast to the stock CH95 that came with a previous vehicle these tires are fully usable when wet while worn to tread wear indicators. ( I do not use them in snow) Even replacement Bridgestone Turanzas from my last E46 that actually marketed progressive wet traction increase could not match these tires when worn. Nothing surprising, of course, tire technology is a competitive business. Their weakness is in slight bump harshness and softness on high speed steering precision. At 42k mine are evenly worn and are absolutely quiet. In most cases when your tires get loud you can blame the car maker for specifying unsuitable alignment specs for the vehicle, unsuitable tires for the vehicle or as in many cars the alignment was off straight from the factory due to poor production process controls.

I wrote this primarily to address ride quality and tread wear. The quality of the ride in a BMW 3-series is determined primarily not by the tires, but by whether or not your car has the Sport Suspension. Consumer Reports advised against buying the Spt Susp because it made the car's ride too harsh, so I searched for one without it. This tire came standard on my 2013 E93 convertible, was engineered especially for the BMW and the ride soaks up impacts amazingly well. Road force balancing produces a glass-smooth ride. I replaced the original tires at 47,000 miles because a rear alignment problem made one tire go bald to the steel belt on only the inside inch of the tread. At this point, after years of careful tread measurement and rotation the tires had between 4/32" and 5/32" of tread left, which would have taken me to at least 55,000 miles. Gentle driving did that so they will last if driven right. I bought replacement tires exactly like the oems to make sure I retained the ride I love so much. I am a very gentle driver and replaced an 11-year old Miata with the BMW to get more room and a metal convertible top in a car with at least decent reliability. With these tires, it has been a gem.

OEM tires on our 3 series truly ----ed with road noise. The dealer recommended these as a good run-flat replacement. For once, the dealer did me right! Great total experience with these tires and they have lasted a long time. I'm not even looking at another brand to replace them; bring me the Continentals!

These are my first experience with run flats and I only have them on my car because BMW seems to sell all their cars with run flats. So these tires are accumulating a lot of negatives with me. The are hard/harsh and extremely loud. At times it literally sounds like a helicopter is under my car. In terms of being hard it feels like the car is on plastic wheels the way the entire car shudders when going over rough roads. Not even pot holes. It only takes a tiny dimple in the road and you will feel it in your spine.
That said cornering stability is impressive (which could be credited to the BMW xDrive system) and thread wear on these tires are actually good. However while the tires may last thru Armageddon I think the car and car's suspension takes a beating that will have you replacing your suspension and other fragile bits that succumb to the daily shock that flows thru the fiber of your BMW from driving on these awful tires. Plus they are super expensive to replace. I'm ditching them early and getting the much cheaper and much much much better Continental DWS 06 tire!

If you like road noise, these are the tires for you! These run flat tires were the noisiest, roughest-riding tires I've ever had. After developing a sidewall bubble at 26K Miles I replaced all 4 with normal tires and it's like having a new car. These run flats are so rigid every bump in the road feels like a giant pothole. They are simply dreadful.

Other that that, the handling and traction seemed fine.

One pleasant surprise was that the tread wear was not nearly as bad as some people report for run flats. If not for the bubble, I think these tires would have lasted another (horrible) 10K miles.

I will never own another set of run flat tires. What is MINI thinking putting these tires on their cars?

This tire seems rough riding and rather noisy but has great tread life and looks good.