These are quite possibly the best passenger car tires I've ever purchased! I put much larger Hankooks on my motor-home in 2019 and was really impressed, so I decided to get a set for my Honda CRV. They were nearly perfectly balanced without any weights and roll smoothly and quietly. I got the original set of 4 in 06/2019 and was very happy. I had Honda do a 4 wheel alignment immediately after having the tires installed.
During summer 2020, one of the rear tires picked up a big staple. I tried to plug it twice. The hole was kind of a gash as opposed to a small nail hole and it was very near the sidewall so ... neither plug worked for very long. I decided to buy 2 new identical tires (11/2020).
Although not the normal recommended location, I had the new tires put on the front and the older ones rotated to the rear. I put the remaining 18 month old tire as a spare. I mention this because I did not have a new alignment done and my experience has been that moving tires around too much can cause alignment and driving problems. There was zero difference from when all of the 06/2019 tires were on the car in their original locations with a fresh 4 wheel alignment! That was impressive.
Before the new 11/2020 tires were installed, I had the tech check the tread of the 06/2019 tires for depth and wear. There was absolutely no abnormal wear and the depth was nearly 11/32 - barely worn after about 14,000 miles (new tires were 11 /32)!!
The only odd thing was the date codes. The tires purchased in 06/2019 had a Date Code of 1916 - manufactured the last week of April, 2019 - in other words, only a couple months out of the factory when shipped and installed. The 11/2020 tires shipped to Walmart from Tennessee, and I thought maybe they were coming directly from the factory and would be minty fresh. They ended up having date codes of 1944 - end of October, 2019 -- Only a few months after my 06/2019 tires were installed. That is not a major issue and may be because the size is a bit of an odd-duck at this time.
I heartily recommend Hankook tires, whether smallish ones for your passenger car or big honking truck tires for your big honkin' truc. Or motor-home.
