The Vredestein Ultrac Sessanta earns strong owner support for dry and wet grip, with favourable reviews forming a large majority. Dry handling, comfort and value also receive substantially more praise than criticism. Noise is less consistent: quiet running has more supporters, but around one in ten reviews calls the tyre noisy. Tread-life opinions are more mixed than the grip verdicts, although several mid-life and end-of-life accounts describe satisfactory wear. Around one in fourteen reviews reports a period of limited grip while bedding in. Repeat reviewers mostly remain favourable, with no consistent pattern of falling satisfaction over time.
What owners mention most counted across 203 reviews
Just replaced my dunlop sport run flats with these and what a difference. So much grip in the wet and dry. Cant praise these tyres enough, great price so much better than any other tyre I have used. I will never go back to run flats for my car.
Just replaced my dunlop sport run flats with these and what a difference. So much grip in the wet and dry. Cant praise these tyres enough, great price so much better than any other tyre I have used. I will never go back to run flats for my car.
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Got a brand new car feeling when changing from the original Pirelli tyres to Vredestein Sesanta. I was not impressed of the handling and comfort of my A8 when i bougt it 6 months ago. I was leaning to think that something was worn on the cars front suspension. But after changing to the Vredesteins, i got the car that i imagined it would be!
i have been buying Ultrac Sessantas for 3 or 4 yers. I run an M5 and the out perform the Original Michelin Pilots in most respects. In the wet they are astonishingly good. Difficult to break traction. In the dry , good, although slightly soft on the limit.
The only major Drawback is wear rate. hard pushed in normal driving to get more than 12K out of the rears.
Have just had my second set of Sessanta's put on the front of my Astra vxr (19's). Went for these tyres again as i found them really good tyres, brilliant in the dry and good in the wet (a little less grip as they wore down to about < 3mm, but what tyre doesnt loose abit of its performance as it wears)
These tyres have never let me down and the last set i got nearlt 22000 our of them! although thats mainly motorway miles during the week and country roads and fun at the weekend
Excellent tyre. Superb grip wet or dry, pretty quiet and a confidence-inspiring feel (I have them all round). They coped admirably in the recent monsoon conditions.
It's too soon to comment on wear, but after 2000 miles, they still have their mould pimples, especially the rears. The only negative comment is roll resistance, they've knocked maybe 3 mpg off my average.
Excellent tyre in every way, looks, grip, price, comfort. I have them on my BMW Z4, have coped easily with any driving conditions, give great grip even round very fast corners, very reliable. Too soon to tell about wear but these are a top tyre I won't be buying anything else. For the quality and the price you won't do better!!
These tyres are outstanding! The grip on these in both dry and wet has been the best ive ever experianced. I bought these tyres after reading reviews about them, i wasnt too keen on the tread pattern but thought id give them a try because of the good reviews they had, im glad i did, these tyres grip and grip and grip. Even when taking them to the limit they perfomed when they needed to. Regardless of weather conditions or speed, i always felt confident with these tyres and knew they will perform, and they did! I would recommend these to anyone!
I recommemded these tyres to a friend who was a fan of yokohama, i have been thanked numerous times by her, she said these made a massive difference on her car
In terms of wear, my car is a rear wheel drive, ive had these on for atleast 19,000 miles, the rears are now just on legal limit whereas the fronts still have half their tread. I will be replacing the rears with these again.
I was again assured that these tyres are excellent when i pulled up next to a lambo which had them on there.
These tyres are outstanding!
Bought these after reading other reviews and my desire to strike a balance between cost (circa £120) and performance. They replaced 1 conti and 1 Michelin which created quite noticable tramlining, making the car feel quite nervous at times. These Vreds are great, much less tramlining, an altogether more confidence boosting experience. Good grip once scrubbed in both wet and dry. I think they look good as well (As good as any tyre can look..!!). Dont drive on the limit so cant comment ther but so far have never felt they were about to let go, but like I say my limit is somewhat lower than the cars. Would recommend to other BMW drivers and will probably put on the back when the time comes. For me it was the correct choice for my car.
Along with the (no longer available) Goodyear Eagle F1 GSD3, these are probably one of the best sets of tyres I've ever had fitted to my car. Whilst they do have a few very minor points against them, in terms of pure grip and safety (even when pushed hard) these Vredestein Ultrac Sessanta tyres do a great job of holding the road.
Grip in the dry is awesome for both acceleration/braking and cornering, better than the old Goodyear Eagle F1s they replaced.
Despite their somewhat unique tread pattern, wet grip is equally impressive although I feel/suspect that the newer Eagle F1s would be fractionally better. In terms of handling, it would be hard to fault these tyres.
Progressiveness and feedback are good and you do get a sense of when the tyres are reaching their limit of adhesion, again better than the old F1 GSD3 tyres they replaced (which although very grippy would just snap away when the limit was reached), but I still think they could be just a little better in this area (if that's how you wish to drive around).
Comfort is good for this type of higher performance tyre and it doesn't give a 'solid' ride, but leads me on to the minor irritations. Road feedback, whilst still good is not as good as some other great tyres, and the Ultrac Sessanta just doesn't give you as good a sense of being connected. I suspect that is more down to the tyre being a bit softer than others. Depending on what you want you may see this as a good or bad thing.
The real areas I can fault them on are:
Wear is not a great aspect of these tyres, but there's no reason you wouldn't see maybe 10000 miles out of a set even with slightly spirited driving.
Also road noise. Inside the car there is no issue, but if you have your windows open you can definitely hear them at speed. Also, and this may be down to my particular tyre size, at certain speeds they can make a particularly irritating noise (again, on the outside, not inside the car). On the plus side though, as they have worn down, they haven't really gotten worse.
VERY poor wear - I had these fitted to my S Class Mercedes and they were assessed on my MOT 5,000 miles later as just legal tread depth so an advisory was issued!!! I complained to the supplier ‘Mytyres' and Vredestein the manufacturer that there must be a problem with the compound. They pointed out that excessive wheel spinning, not checking of tyres pressure and hard driving was probably the cause. I pointed out that I am 61 years of age and do not drive 'hard' and as engineering consultant I regularly check my tyre pressures and my wheel spinning days are long gone. The car also does mostly motorway miles. They declined my complaint and made no attempt to provide good customer care. I would avoid these German tyres like the plague. Two Vredestein tyres cost me well over £400 and they lasted only 5,000 miles - so make your own mind up. The original tyre fitters (who only fitted them) were also concerned that the tyres looked odd when fitted and thought they should be supplied as axle pairs to be symmetrical but there are not so are asymmetrical when fitted. As a stop gap measure I have had some low cost tyres (Nankang) fitted and they are so far proving to be far superior in every respect including cost. I have already notched up well in excess of 5,000 miles with little sign of wear and the grip and ride are good too.
