Whatever I use on the body. Lately I’ve been using Meguires Ultimate Liquid. It’s a synthetic polymer and is really slick.

 

The EX tires are marketed as all-season, but that doesn’t mean much. I’d check Consumer Reports. That said, I live in Minnesota and have never run snow tires on any of my cars. I do ‘wax’ my rims with the same stuff I use on the car and always make sure I’ve had applied a good coat to both before winter.

 

What kind of wax do you use for your wheels?

 

Question about winter tire strategy

We live in eastern Washington where there's a fair amount of snow in the winter. The roads are sanded and salted and perhaps treated with other chemicals. This does cause some corrosion on the aluminum alloy wheels over time, but it takes a few years, according to a knowledge friend of mine, to really notice much wear. We also travel east a lot into Montana over mountain passes that are treated.

For my last two cars, both purchased new (2010 and 2015 Hond Fits), I had the wheels and tires removed in mid November every year and put on metal wheels and good snow tires. I did this to get better traction in the snow and to perserve my good aluminum alloy wheels. The downside of this was having to do this every November and March, very heavy for a 61-year old to take to the tire shop and store the old ones in the shed. Plus there was the cost of the tires and wheels.

My friend who also drives a lot in the snow said that for his new Chevy Silveradom the all-season radials that came with from the factory are fine in the snow and there really isn't that much corrosion involved on the wheels, plus the wheels can be treated after a few years with some treatment solution to restore them to close to original.

So here are my questions. Does the 2019 EX Insight come with good all-season radial tires that would be sufficient for my winter driving situation? My second questions is about preserving the aluminum alloy wheels. If after a few years the corrosion is noticeable, is there a solution for restoring those wheels?

The quote I am getting from my local tire shop for good quality studless snow tires plus metal wheels and hub caps is around $880. I'm wondering now if this is necessary.

Your thoughts?

 

The Civics appear to be 64.1. So that would be a good guess for the Insight.

 

That's what I thought as well but I will need to confirm before ordering adaptor rings.

 

Wheel Hub size

Does anyone know what the wheel hub size is for the Honda Insight. It is not in their specs concerning tires. I have the touring with the 17 inch wheels. I kept 17 inch snow tires from my previous car that were mounted on mag wheels. The size of the tire is suitable for the Insight. My previous car (Kia Optima SX) had a hub size of 67.1mm and the mags were 72.5mm so to ensure a perfect fit I used wheel adaptor rings. I know I can jack my Insight up and remove a wheel to measure the hub but I am hoping someone here already has the answer. Then, I can order the proper wheel adaptor rings.

 

At a minimum you would want to have the speedometer recalibrated. Not sure if thats all it would take to get all the mpg calcs etc. working correctly. Look at this for the actual size difference:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/tirecalc?tires=215-55r16-185-55r16