great deal for the money it cost

Very good grip on dry, good grip on wet. Only - is noise

I put on the Federal SS595 already a year, this tire is suck.....
Dry day is acceptable but wet day is unacceptable totally suck I can say that is not safe drive when wet / rainy day. But the advantage is the tire thickness and the rubber hardness is extremely good. But the I will never buy again....

I really don't understand why someone rate this tire so bad ?!
So far this was the best tire I had for rain driving. Good response and
if drifting on the Nürburgring Nordschleife the car was very stable in the rain. It breaks good, corners good in the dry and in the rain.
Last very long!

you have to drive this tire with a little bit less pressure than others. but if you do that, the tire performs well.
As a race driver I can say: This is a great tire for everyday driving and makes fun even on the Racetrack.

In my opinion, it can be compared with Conti Sport Contact 3 or Michelin Pilot Sport.

The overall performance is great! Best tire for the money. If you want something better, than pay twice the price!

I have used federals for 16yrs on various cars and 4x4s and I wont buy anything else if I can avoid it, when I have I can only say I have been disappointed, eg at present am running a Volvo S60 D5, bought it with pirellis, handling was unpredictable in wet and dry and no feel, replaced with Toyo, grip improved but little feel and pathetic in wet. Got Feds happy again, just love the feel and feedback you get and wet stability is best of any tire I have ever used.

These tires are very good, they're priced very well and I've recommended them to friends.
I found the level of grip surprisingly good recently after making an emergency swerve on the motorway at (legal) speed. The car darted around the obstruction as if the road was bone dry.

Terrible, terrible tires. I had a bad experience with one of these previously and avoided them since. When purchasing a replacement vehicle recently i inherited a full set of almost new ones and gave the benefit of the doubt. Now replaced after confirmation of just how poor these are. Grip is not the best wet or dry. The car feels like it is running on 'hard' tires or over inflated. Tread pattern seems to pick up more grit an stones than any other ive known. And the noise!!!! At low speed it's like the old Land Rover tires and high speed like all wheel bearings have gone! Then you will notice uneven wear as the carcass starts to twist. Not a good buy. Spend an extra tenner and get something supremely better!

I dont agree with most of the negative feedback. I have these tires on my 335i, in staggered setup F-225/40/18 & R-255/35/18. The tires have good dry grip & wet grip, in the rain when the tubro kicks in the tires dont even break loose, thats good as far as im concerned. Cornering is great, when drifting on dry they respond and break loose on my throttle comand. They are quiter than the last dunlops I had. GOOD Tire for the $

Rubbish.
Bought them in desperate trying to have brand new set of average price tires (because my brilliant Pirellis completely died), can't find Hankooks Evo S1 for a week, decided "okay, this couldn't be much worse" and that was a huge mistake.
Dry grip is pathetic. If trying hard on throttle, they can burnout from other side to another without any sign of "grip at last!" technique. It looks like they can never have right temperature when you need it even in, well, spirited driving across the city or B-roads. Losing grip at the front without LSD is not a surprise, but that's something Nostradamus was writing about - you just know it will happen, but you know it did JUST after it did and car goes forward endlessly without trying to have sweet relationships with the tarmac ever again. If you have some skill on how to get your front grip back, then the other two wheels came out, annoying your ESP system (if on). So, it's dangerous to go fast.
They looks very aggressive, though. Lada and KIA drivers are appreciate them very much. Huge "pinetree" grooves looks like massive effort for the wet weather, but it's not even close to that. In fact, in the wet it's even more dangerous, unpredictable and f**ing annoying even at 50 mph, and this is happening on the car known as excellent "moose test" passer on Pirellis.
So, maybe they are good on average speed and silent and comfortable? No. Nothing from that list. Durable and strong? Not a chance. Blown up after fall in small ditch at speed 2, leaving huge mark on wheel. To be completely honest, it was then glued, transferred to the back and now is okay, but that was ditch I once came across in PZero Nero at the same speed (my bad, forgot about this little a**hole second time) and just moved on, swearing hard.
This is the worst thing I could do to my car - buying this tires. I'm so sorry.

My expericence with these tires has been a very good one to say the least.
I was put onto them by a local tire company, after my Toyo Proxies had hit their limit.
I had originally gone in to order proxies at £90 a piece, but was given the hard sale for these federals.
I was a bit skeptical at first to stray away from proxies as I'd had such a good experience with them, but after a few minutes of examining the tire and been told his experiences with them, he told me the price. At the time they were £54 a tire which I couldnt really argue with.
Bottom end budget prices with apparent high budget performance, even if they turned out to be dud I hadn't lost alot.
Its safe to say I now swear by them as a brilliant budget tire.

The dry grip they have almost rivals the Proxies and even when you seem to hit their limit their still easily controlable to bring back. Obviously its a mix between your cars setup and your own driving style, but these match both of mine near perfectly.

The only downside I have come to know about these tires are this:
-They are quite noise (A high whirring noise when at high speeds, although does not make the slightest in difference to myself as you cant really hear it over my Buddy Club Spec IV lol.)

-As good as they are in the dry, the wet is another story. They do grip well for fast paced driving but in my experience going anywhere near the limit could be fatal. There is not alot of coming back once they have lost grip, but if you know the limit and know anything about driving a car you should know not to be anywhere near that limit in wet conditions on public roads.

Overall for their price they are an exellent tire, unfortunately they are now in the price range of £70 now for a set of 205/45/16 V83, which is closing in on the higher priced tires but I will continue to use them unless they go any higher.

A few extra cosmetic points about them:
They are a very pretty tire for any wheel and can set your car off nicely opposed to some of the budget tires you can get with an almost flat side on them, federals however have a nice tight curve and lip protectors which is always nice to have.

To sum up, if your wanting higher budget performance tires but not wanting to fork out the extra these are a great alternative.
Handle amazingly in the dry and quite well in the wet, aswell as getting good mileage, motorway and or pleasure driving.

As a budget tire 9/10
As a performance tire 6/10

Yup..it is a budget tire.. I been using this tires for almost 40,000km. I felt it is good on dry and wet. But i cant stand the noise

I suppose it depends what you're expecting from a budget tire. I imagine that, when compared to the premium brands, they're not as good all-round but I don't believe that they're that bad. I've recently replaced these with some Continental SportContact 5's as I have a personal preference for Continental tires and won't mix brands. As I don't drive on the limit then I can't comment on breakaway etc. but under normal driving conditions they are no where near as noisy as some say, at least on my XF and felt like any other tires in normal use. I always keep at the back of my mind that when reading 'professional' reviews on any product, the media in particular have a vested interest in exaggerating the differences between products. If they didn't, and instead kept saying that x is a little better than y here but a little worse ther etc., then we wouldn't bother reading their reviews and they'd soon be out of a job.