I am very often asked by my clients to help them pick out a good set of tires and I love to help them but there are 2 types of clients. Most of them do actually want to make sure that they will get the best tires for their car, but there are also a second type of people, the ones that just want a specialist’s blessing that the cheap tires they are planning to buy are good enough for their car. And I simply cannot do that so when hankooktirereviews.com asked me to give them an unbiased review of Hankook tires I warned them that it wouldn’t actually be very good and they still wanted it.
So after 15 years’ worth of experience I can honestly tell you that the Hankook tires are worth exactly what they are priced at and that is very little. They have a very resistant wire shell and a tough rubber and silica exterior. But here’s the thing, while you do want that outer shell to be hard enough that it won’t wear out during the first 20.000 miles, you also want it to be soft and rubbery enough to adhere well to the pavement when you hit the brakes. But in my experience Hankook tires don’t really do that and you can do this experiment yourself: pick out an empty lane, go up to 30, 40 miles an hour and then slam the brakes, and then ask a friend who has Hankook tires to do the same. Unless your tires are as bad and useless as his you will see how you will have left a very thick rubber mark on the pavement while the Hankook tires will barely leave a mark.
And those extra hard tire tracks will also not be very good in rainy conditions because the more rigid a tire is the easier it will be to hydroplane. So although many people are tempted by the low price and the fact that modern cars have assisted braking and cornering I still believe that the place where the car meets the road is the first one where you should invest money and make as secure as possible.