For those considering CSC6s, I thought I'd give a bit more feedback now I've had them on the car for a while and done a fair few miles.
Grip levels are still very high overall, but particularly impressive in the wet. They are quite temperature sensitive though! We've had a couple of cold days since I had them fitted and the grip levels are noticeably lower unless you work them up to temperature. I'm not talking DSC lights flashing away trying to pull off, but getting on the power out of tighter stuff and you can feel the rear wheels lightly spinning up.
Feel - quite a subjective thing but I do think these tyres are superb. It is quite hard to get a grasp on feel when the tyres are so grippy in the first place, but on the rare occasions when I'm on the limits of grip, feedback is quite superb. I don't think I've really felt anything like the scrabbling/scrubbing I felt from the RE050A, much more progressive when leaning hard on the tyre. I've had to do two full-bore emergency stops, once from quite a high speed and one reasonably slow speed and both times I could really feel the tyre working.
As for wear, I'd say judging on the wear to date I'd expect them to last 10,000 miles on the back and probably twice that on the fronts which feels about right. It'll be interesting to see how the wet performance falls away as the tyre wears.
Grip levels are still very high overall, but particularly impressive in the wet. They are quite temperature sensitive though! We've had a couple of cold days since I had them fitted and the grip levels are noticeably lower unless you work them up to temperature. I'm not talking DSC lights flashing away trying to pull off, but getting on the power out of tighter stuff and you can feel the rear wheels lightly spinning up.
Feel - quite a subjective thing but I do think these tyres are superb. It is quite hard to get a grasp on feel when the tyres are so grippy in the first place, but on the rare occasions when I'm on the limits of grip, feedback is quite superb. I don't think I've really felt anything like the scrabbling/scrubbing I felt from the RE050A, much more progressive when leaning hard on the tyre. I've had to do two full-bore emergency stops, once from quite a high speed and one reasonably slow speed and both times I could really feel the tyre working.
As for wear, I'd say judging on the wear to date I'd expect them to last 10,000 miles on the back and probably twice that on the fronts which feels about right. It'll be interesting to see how the wet performance falls away as the tyre wears.
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