Topic: Hankook iPike Winter Tires

[BWII]

Cdn Tire has a smokin' deal right now on Hankook iPike RSV winter tires.  I imagine they'd be good, being a name brand and not some off brand Chinese made junk.  Recommend or not?

[HeliDriver]

Looks like an old-school studdable winter tire. Might be okay, but probably won’t be great. General Altimax Arctic is the go-to in that category. How does the price compare?

It was a decade ago, but I bought some Hankook winter tires for our Suburban. Figured I’d save a few bucks, but they were so horrible I got rid of them after two winters and put some Blizzaks on instead. Would have been cheaper to buy Blizzaks in the first place.

Maybe their newer, top-of-the-line tires are better, but I’d still be leery of the cheaper ones.

[sailor723]

Winter tire design and performance has advanced rapidly in recent years. I'd suspect from the look of them that these are at least one if not two generations old. Probably an OK tire but not 1st tier by today's standards.

[dash]

I had a set about 3-4 years ago, bought them used with very low mileage. Did not favor them, wheel spin in dry conditions with little more than average throttle application, and found them a bit squishy/wiggly. Good in deep snow.   

[BWII]

Well, not for me, but if my nephew/brother decide to keep the Civic (unless there's some way he can return a private sale where the whole truth wasn't told), they'd be for a 2005 Civic.  So at $49 + fees/taxes etc. ea., on an under-powered little car, maybe they'd be good enough.  Turns out the sunroof DOES leak after all...so if they can't get their money back then more expensive tires might not be in the cards.