Continental  ContiSportContact 5P

I have driven very high performance Italian and German cars for 30 years. i have tried 'em all - most good, some great, some overrated. These tires are the most compliant tires on a dry surface that I have ever driven - and light!! - minimal addition of unsprung weight, so steering and handling are second to none. Though Michelin Super Sports do slighly better on a wet surface, these are very good wet and I'd have to say that the Super Sports, though close, are my second choice for a great high performance tire. Both beat out anything Pirelli, Michelin Pilots 2 and 3 and any other Continentals I have driven (and anything else, and there have been so many). In fact, if I had to pick a third place high performance tire, I'd go with the Sumitomo HTR Z III over those others as well (and great if you are looking for a less painfiul price tag). But, in short, for me, the Continental The ContiSportContact 5P is the high performance king (for now - w a VERY close second to Michelin Super Sports - because of slightly better rain performance and her less aggressive driving style, i use the Super Sports on my wife's Maserati).

These tires came stock on my '13 C63 sedan. Overall, they're pretty great considering this car's intended purpose and intended road surfaces - great wet/dry traction, braking distance and braking pedal feel, steering precision/response. If you mostly use your car on the track and/or you live in a location with warm/moderate climate and properly maintained roads - this is a good tire model to use, just as good as (or at least very close to) the Michelin's PSS.

But! But if you're one of the very unfortunate, miserable souls who had great misfortune to live in a location with highly variable winter weather (sudden freezing temperatures quickly changing to above freezing and then dropping back to below 32F) and extremely poorly maintained roads/highways and you're still brave enough to drive your "sporty" car often on local streets - stay away from these tires. Any moderately (by NorthEastern "standards") irregular road surface combined with "sporty" suspension becomes a torture and there's a great amount of road noise being generated when driving on top of "worn out" asphalt/concrete road (even on a pretty flat surface without any bumps/potholes). I am one of such unlucky persons and I will definitely be trying out some other tire model instead which will hopefully be more quiet and at least a little bit "softer" when being driven on local roads because I really don't want to give up driving my current car or void its warranty by changing the coilovers.

So far I'm very happy with the stock tires that came on the car. The day I bought it I drove home in a severe thunderstorm and the wet traction was unbelievable. Performs very well everywhere I've driven so far.

Replaced my second set of Run Flats with these staggered Continentals. I was looking to put Michelin Super Sports on the car, but could not find a set anywhere. These Continentals relatively quiet, and compared to the RFT's they replaced, have much better dry grip. Reaction to steering input and turn-in response is excellent. The car feels stable throughout the corner and appears to have less body roll. The side walls are very stiff on the these Continentals; I was afraid the ride would suffer, but have been happy with the ride thus far.

These are the OEM tires that came on my 2015 Audi S3. Overall they are a fantastic summer performance tire with very good dry traction and fairly decent wet traction. Excellent cornering stability and extremely responsive. My two hesitations for buying these tires again are the noise on the tires (they are pretty loud) and the wear; I just swapped these out for my winter wheels/tires and realized that I will probably have to replace them by summer. As a daily driver (with maybe a little bit of fun) I was hoping they'd have lasted a bit longer and why I will probably go with Bridgestone Potenza S-04 Pole Positions to replace given cost/value.

The Continental 5P is an excellent tire; switched to this from PS2 an have been very happy with both dry and wet traction. I believe that this tire provides better traction and more lateral stability when executing shenanigans, err...driving.



Wet traction is much better than what I found in the PS2. The treadwear so far seems better as well...time will tell by how much (only 4k so far...still plenty of tire left). I really get on my car when driving...I've run several sets of PS2s to the belt after only 12-14k. I'd estimate these lasting 20k, with my driving habits.

I have driven them all, and this is easily the most compliant street tire I have ever used - so light. There are other great handling tires out there, like the Michelin Super Sport, but this, the Conti 5P, IMO, is the one!!

Continental never disappoints, but for the price I think the Michelin Super Sports are a much better value. The tires wore out very quickly but the performance was superior. The car would barely make a sound when being pushed but the Michelin's are now close to that level after about 1.5k miles. The 5p offers initial higher performance but the Super Sports seem like they will last longer and are also a little more comfortable over bumpy road conditions. Steering response is also a little numb, which is a characteristic of most continentals.
Saved about 200 bucks going with the Michelins and that is why I cannot highly recommend this tire because of its high price. The tire is one pound lighter as well than the Michelins but the steering response and performance more than make up for that extra sprung weight. You can't go wrong with the tire but you can definitely save money and go for the number one rated tire on tirerack for Max performance summer tires. If you decide to get this, you won't be disappointed. Just make sure to keep the tire pressures up and remember to rotate early. I say about 2k miles if you drive aggressively.

Very disappointed in the tread life of this tire. I have had other performance tires before (Michelin PS2, Bridgestone), but I have not seen such deterioration after only 8 months of use. These are OEM on my M4. Called BMW NA, was told that I am basically on my own, new BMWs do not come with any tread warranty. I am wondering is they will last one more season.

Came as OE tires on my car. After only 7,000 miles of mostly city driving in a car that's never been tracked, tires are already down to 4/32" of tread. By this point they have become extremely uncomfortable, if you see any kind of imperfection on the road you will feel it guaranteed. Also normal balancing resulted in high-speed vibration on the OE wheels, I had to have them RoadForce balanced to get it sorted out.

In terms of performance, they are pretty high up there in dry conditions and fairly predictable in the wet (at least on an AWD car), never noticed any hydroplaning. I did notice something interesting though that's never happened to me before on any other tire, summer or otherwise: I drove in the country one very hot day and over some leftover bitumen scattered about from roadworks, I then discovered afterwards that these tires had a tendency to absorb the little pieces and end up with permanent craters in the tread. I ended up extracting the bits several months later and luckly they didn't get too deep, but did make me paranoid to drive over any kind of small stones after that.

That being said, between tread wear and the progressively worsening ride quality, I wouldn't go for these again.