It's Continental's lowest lousiest model ma, what else to expect?

Hahaha ok at least you know now and did not get into any accident due to that shit tire! Next time when selecting tires, prioritize on grip performance first ahead of noise, comfort or whatever else coz those are just secondary criteria while grip is the main criteria that allows your car to stay on the road!

If PS4 is available for your size and you have the budget for it then by all means go for that, no need to mess around with the mid-range 3ST anymore. The 3ST is also already an old tire some more and just so-so only. Rather than 3ST, if you want good value for money tires, then go for Hankook V12 Evo2. It's the cheapest of well proven UHP tires, even cheaper than top brands mid range tires like 3ST but yet it closely rivals PS4/3 in performance and it's pretty silent too. I just got them for my wife's car, that's why I can highly recommend it.

K117 is the S1 Evo2, which is the asymmetric version of the V12 Evo2, so I'm not surprised it's good or even better! The S1 Evo series is one of my target tires to try also from Hankook.

Buying tires does not need to always buy at your mechanic ma. As long as you get good stuff at good price at location not too far then ok already lor. PS4 only rm30 more than 3ST?? Then no brainer la, much better and newer performance tires vs aging just so-so mid range tires! But in terms of noise, let's just say PS4 does not excel/win in this area in any tests I've read (but it doesn't mean it's so bad either). What size are you using and how much your mechanic are offering you the PS4?

Those eco tires do last long as durability is one of their main focus (targeting those who do not want to spend much on tires) but to last that long probably also because of relatively lighter weight cars and not driving & cornering fast at all. Like the previous tires on my wife's car (the crappy Continental CC series), they also show very little wear rate coz she drives slow. Most of the wear was done when I was still driving it in the first 1 year of 20k km mileage, so I worn off the tires more in 20k km compared to her in the next 45k km!

What to expect?? It's Continental's lowest range tire la, of course the grip is the shittiest too! Corner just a bit faster already making all kinds of squeaking noises and loosing grip in the process, very bad grip performance no matter dry or wet, but again typical of this kind of low end range tires, only cares about softness and low noise while no good for anything else which are more important.

Kumho is even worse, no good whatsoever. Buy Hankook!

To the contrary, CC6 & UC6 are the lowest, shittiest range from Continental! Want good Continental tires then go with CSC5/6, or at the very least the new CPC6, and maybe the MC6 (but not MC5).

Newest/latest doesn't necessarily mean better, you need to look at the product range position if they're low range econo models like these 2 or mid range, or high performance range. Read my comment above. Btw their newest is no more CC6/UC6 but MC6 & Extreme Contact.

Not surprised, despite Kumho already being in the industry for quite long but it doesn't seem to improve much from the product standpoint. Hankook on the other hand already got top of the line models that can challenge the well known top tires.

Hahaha, yeah Conti MY has not yet put up even the MC6 there despite this line up is specifically launched for the MY market! However its FB seems quite active though, promoting all the newer line ups.

Yup agree, official website must be the first priority to update the soonest. Coz that is where all the spec and size information should be and where people would search for sizes availability.

You can consider CC series ONLY if you don't have other better tires available for your size. Otherwise just forget it coz it's crap!

That is also because the rubber compound is not having good wet traction. It's a hard compound made for longer lasting but no good for anything else!

To the contrary, as per my comments above, the CC series actually is a very durable tire that will last very long coz it's using harder compound BUT the grip either dry or wet is very poor! Good performance tires always use relatively softer compounds (tread wear rating 320 or below), that's why the rubber can grip the road surface much better, but they would not last as long. Harder rubber on the other hand would not grip as good, as evident also when tires are getting older and the rubber gets even hardened, the grip level keeps deteriorating. Dunlop like any other tire brands also makes all ranges of tires, from shit level ones similar to the Continental CC series to the high performance ones (Dunlop Sportmaxx series), so you cannot just generalize that Dunlop is better. You need see what product range and compare apple-to-apple.

Yes, it is indeed budget tires, that's why it sucks!

What size?

Hmm then cannot use better UHP tires. Not sure about the EP150 but I know CC series from Continental are lousy in terms of grip. Maybe better use Michelin XM2.

Nope, it's just designed to be a low end tire so there you go, low end grip also.

For rough roads, probably Bridgestone or Dunlop are more preferable than Continental.

CC6 is the lowest cheapest line up from Continental and it has horrendous grip and handling, dry or wet!

UC6 is just 1 level above CC6.

1 level up from a horrendous performance doesn't speak much. For Continental I suggest at least MC6. If want cheap but decent, might as well just get something like Hankook Prime 3, cheaper than UC6 but more proven. If got budget better get PS4 SUV.

Csn try find Hankook S1 Evo2 SUV or Falken Azenis FK510 SUV, should be cheaper than PS4 SUV (like 70% of PS4 price) but almost as good.