Review on Hankook Tire K424 (Optimo ME02) 195/60 R15 88H summer by Stanislaw Was ᠌

In terms of price / quality tires are excellent. What upsets me most of all is that the rubber wears out quickly, for 40 thousand kilometers I looked for a tread to the control mark in the groove. Driving style moderately aggressive. This is a payment for the fact that the rubber is soft and quiet. There are no developed lugs, which are mostly noisy, on the sides, because of this, the rubber gives in to mud and wet grass. Dirt does not like from the word at all. When parking on a broken lawn, after rain, getting back onto the road often becomes a problem. Without exaggeration, we can say that this is "rain rubber". In the rain it behaves just fine, even 140 km / h in the downpour does not cause tension. On this rubber, I stopped being afraid of aquaplaning. On a dry road, too, everything is fine, the rubber clings to the asphalt to the last. Tires are already starting to break, but the car does not break into a skid. He does not like asphalt hot by the sun, squeals when cornering where it did not squeal on warm asphalt. Good strong sides, bumps do not occur even if you catch a serious hole. The sides are quite rigid, the pressure was released several times from 2.1 to 1.2-1.5 points, and during a visual inspection I did not notice until I ran the wheel on a tubercle. Rubber does not tolerate negative temperatures. Already at minus 5, it dubs and fuel consumption increases, and ride comfort decreases. In addition, it does not hold even on the slightest ice, breaks at a speed of 20-30 km / h. Therefore, I highly do not recommend driving through frosts until the first snow on this rubber. I would take this tire again. To be honest, I don't know. With all the combination of excellent qualities, rubber is not friendly with mud, and sometimes I have to knead mud when traveling to the country, for example.