# Winter tires, necessary? And recommendations

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/winter-tires-necessary-and-recommendations/81505>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** accord, honda\
**Created:** [September 25, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/winter-tires-necessary-and-recommendations/81505 "2013-09-25T23:40:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 2

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**Author:** ![dagosa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/dagosa/32/9837_2.png) [@dagosa](https://community.cartalk.com/u/dagosa)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/winter-tires-necessary-and-recommendations/81505/21 "2013-10-04T02:02:13Z")

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All season tires cannot be characterized the same way. Some are very quite. You need to look at tire reviews and choose one that fills your needs best.

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**Author:** ![jesmed1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jesmed1/32/2097_2.png) [@jesmed1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jesmed1)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/winter-tires-necessary-and-recommendations/81505/22 "2013-10-04T02:26:04Z")

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The Hankook Optimo H727 is a very quiet tire with great winter handling. I’m not a Hankook salesman, but I got a set and am very impressed with them. They’ll work great on the Civic and will be very quiet.

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**Author:** ![jesmed1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/jesmed1/32/2097_2.png) [@jesmed1](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jesmed1)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/winter-tires-necessary-and-recommendations/81505/23 "2013-10-04T02:28:15Z")

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PS…don’t take my word for it, go to [Tirerack.com](http://Tirerack.com) and read the reviews and user survey results.

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**Author:** ![bloody\_knuckles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@bloody\_knuckles](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bloody_knuckles)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 2:57pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/winter-tires-necessary-and-recommendations/81505/24 "2013-10-04T14:57:28Z")

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Go to TireRack on the internet or DiscountTireDirect. Both have reasonably priced winter tires along with user reviews. If your local garage can mount and balance them for $10 to $15 a tire then you are golden. Or you can order them on a set of wheels (like I do) with the TPMS sensors mounted and then you can switch your tires out seasonally yourself without going to a garage.

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**Author:** ![Caddyman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/caddyman/32/23_2.png) [@Caddyman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Caddyman)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/winter-tires-necessary-and-recommendations/81505/25 "2013-10-04T19:42:47Z")

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A good set of “All-Seasons” is all you need…Anymore, if conditions get bad enough to where you need Winter Tires, they close the roads anyway…95% of the time, you are going to be driving on dry roads…In any case, you don’t want to be driving to Washington with a big snow-storm threatening…

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**Author:** ![genex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@genex](https://community.cartalk.com/u/genex)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2013, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/winter-tires-necessary-and-recommendations/81505/26 "2013-10-04T21:09:13Z")

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Buy a set of wheels and tires from Tire Rack - ready mounted and balanced !

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