Why I Chose Hankook iON FlexClimate for My Tesla Model S – The Best All-Season Tires!?

Welcome back to a new video. Finally, I got my tires and I have one of the best tires for electric cars. And I will present you right now. I decided to change from the previous brand that I have it for a few years because I have seen so many positive reviews. I read a lot online about which are the best tires plus, because I have this car and I want to have the best sound insulation or sound from the road. I want to have the best comfort. I want to have the best reliability in time. And I want to have also the lower resistance for an electric car and for a heavy car, because this car have almost 2,500 kilograms, my Tesla Model S from 2020, probably already know if you saw my previous videos and I decide for the first time to get the all weather, all season tires, because before I have always winter, summer, and I live in Switzerland and always there, it's like in the winter, it's quite cold. You go on the mountains, you have a lot of snow and ice. You need really good tires for the winter. And because I move here in Romania and Bucharest, I decide to get an all season tires and I decide to go with this Hankook because from my point of view, they're really good quality. Also, the thing is that here we don't have a lot of snow here. I decide to go with all season because those are more than perfect. Anyway, in wet conditions, I look online yesterday and in wet condition, those Hankook Ion Flex Climate, they call it. They're amazing. I mean, in wet breaking, in snow breaking and all kinds of wet conditions, they're also very good. Anyway, let me show you guys. Those are 19 inch wheels. I had before 21 inch rims. I want to change it. The car come with those 21, but I don't want to have it so big. So I decided to go a little bit smaller. I have also new rims in the trunk. I will show you in a second. They look really good. And also they are more aerodynamic. This is the tires that I choose. If you look right here, it's 245 45 R 19, 101 come from the weight. Y come from the speed. Y mean 300 kilometers per hour and XL come from extra load. And if you go on the tires and you look here, they are pretty thick in comparison with some other normal tires. And because you install it on an electric car, it definitely have to be a little bit stronger. So those tires are made really special. And you can see here on them, they are EV special for EVs. But let me give you a tip guys. If you will install these, these tires on a normal vehicle, you will get also very good efficiency. And also Hankook have some summer tires, which are the best. They have AA also for lower resistance for the consumption and also for the weather, which I want to test next summer. Probably I will buy the Hankook. The other ones, they are the, the summer one and they have AA. This one have BB, B for consumption and B for the weather. But I think it's the best compromise to have everything. Also the sound here, 70 decibels. It's great. And those tires, which I, uh, which I get this time, we have also this sound absorber down here, which is also great because it will absorb all the sound from the road. Plus, if you, if you look here on the side, you can see Hankook Ion Flex Climate. They are built in Europe, in Hungary, but Hankook, it's a well-known brand. It's from Korea, South Korea. From 1941, the company was built in 1968. They changed the name to Hankook and they have factories all over the world. They have factories in United States, in Tennessee, they have in Europe, in Hungary, in China, they have in Indonesia. And of course in South Korea, plus they sell from what I understand over 100 million tires per year, which is incredible. Plus let's don't forget that Hankook have collaboration also with Hyundai. They have collaboration with Tesla. If you already know, they already install on some models. So that says a lot about the quality BMW, Porsche have, uh, and also Hyundai. Let's don't forget. I was two years ago on the mountain to test the winter tires from Hankook, which was incredible on the Hyundai Ioniq 5N, if I remember well. And from that time, when I test the Hankook on the winter experience with Hyundai, I was thinking, man, I have to get the Hankook because they grew a lot in the last years. Also, I think it's the best price offer in terms of quality and offer on the market. Anyway, more about them. I will also talk in the future because today I'll install you. I will show you also the process and how it looks, but more about them. I will give you more feedbacks in the next videos when I will test the range of the car and I will show you also the consumption. So check out also the next videos to see more information about the way they perform. Another thing that I want to show you and point out before we go and install them is the fact that this pattern and tread around here, they are made special to improve the grip, but also to improve the, let's say, resistance. Uh, plus, you know, Hankook have some intelligent system that usually on, uh, electric cars, you get the tires uneven wear, but they have a very intelligent system where the tire it's kind of, uh, flexible and it sits on the road exactly straight, so it will wear even, which is very, very important, at least for electric cars. And that was one of the point that really impressed me. And another thing that I want to point out, the fact that Hankook this year will be the supplier of the tires for World Rally Championship 2025 says a lot about the quality of the tires. Plus let's don't forget that it's the supplier for Formula E, which is pretty impressive. Let's go and install them. And then, uh, yeah, in the end I will show you how they look on the car. Ah, by the way, come here. I want to show you the rims. Those are the rims guys. Those are the slipstream rims. They look really good, kind of in the same shape, same design, but they are silver in color, but they look great. Yeah. Anyway, let's go and install them and then, uh, I will show you how they look. And also I will give you some feedback as we drive a little bit. All right, guys, just change the wheels now. Also, I did the wheel alignment. It's really recommended when you change the tires, when you change the wheels, I think every year or every two years, I really recommend you to do also the wheel alignment. At least if you live in a country where the roads are bumpy, then you really need to, yeah, from time to time to align them. Otherwise the tires will be where uneven, which is not recommended. Then another thing that you have to do, if you have a Tesla, by the way, just go here to service. And once you go in service, you go to the wheel and then you have to change the wheels. Before was on 21 and it was that silver turbine. I put it on 19 and those are silver slipstream. This is the name of them. And then once you do it, just press confirm. And then now for the next time you have 19 inch silver stream, confirm. Otherwise it will not calculate very well the range. It will not calculate very well the consumption and so on. So definitely you have to do this after you change the size of the wheels in the menu. Depends which car you have, but yeah, most of Tesla will allow you to do that. Now going to the suspensions here in the beginning, also when they do the wheel alignment and when they change the wheels, if you have the air suspension, really recommend you to put it in jack mode. Right now I take the jack mode off and this is it. In normal, I will leave it right now on medium on comfort, the same as I drive before. And let's drive a little bit. This is for the first time with this Hancock. Let's see how they, they, oh my God, already feel much softer. That's also due to the tires, but also is due to the size of the wheels, 19 inch wheels. Oh my God. It's like it's also much more silent, but I have also the wheels in the back, which they hit each other. So if you hear, hear some noise from there, it's from the wheels, but man, it feels totally different. It's like super plushy. It's like around 20% better. Right? How it feels, right? It's like 20% better. Oh my God. It feels so good. It feels much more softer, much more plushy. Now guys, for more information regarding the consumption and feedback with those tires, I really recommend you to stay close to see more information about them. But my first impression, lovely. It feels lovely and it definitely feel a big improvement. And also they look very good on the car. They look definitely good. In the beginning, I was worried a little bit with those 19 inch wheels, but now after I saw the car with 19 inch black with those silver wheels, the contrast, it's really beautiful and the car look really nice. But yeah, I think, I guess I will need a little bit more time in order to give you a proper feedback with the tires, but stay close because in the, will come some videos range, test drive range, and we will do some kilometers with the car to stretch up the range and then we will see the consumption and then I will drive a little bit more with those tires and I can give you and I can tell you more about them. But first impression, lovely, much more silent, much more comfy. And it feels totally different, 20% better than the previous one. Finally, I have my tires on and I want to show you a little bit how the car look with the new tires, with the new size. From my point of view, it's better than I was expected in the beginning. To be honest, I was a little bit worried that the 19 inch wheels, the slipstream will not look so good on those 19 inch wheels. But now that I install it, they look really good. The only thing that's missing from here is this silver cap for those screws, which will come, I order it already and will come in one, two weeks and then they will be basically the same color as this alloy wheels, this silver. Otherwise, it looks great. I love it. The road until here was was a bless. It's like floating in the air with those new tires. This Hankook ION Flex Climate, they are incredible. And the fact that they are all weather, they are also much more comfortable in the summer because they have a little bit more gummy, but in the same time, they are efficient. In the same time, you are also protected on the wet surface and cold surface. And also, I noticed that they are pretty economical and I didn't drive too much. I drive around 10 kilometers, but in this 10 kilometer, I noticed, let's say around 10 percent to 15 percent more better efficiency. But I have to test it a little bit more. So stay close to see more tests. Yeah, I'm really happy with them. I'm happy with the rims. I'm super happy with the tires. Yeah, from my point of view, it looks good. The black with silver rims, great contrast, great tires, one of the best tires for electric cars. And yeah, I'm really, really ready. The car is almost ready to start the season, the summer season and the test season, because with those tires, with those rims, we will test it. We will do the range test. Stay close to see the range test. After almost five years, this car, this battery, 103 kilowatt hour battery will be tested to see how much range, real life range we'll still have in the summer. Also, the only thing that's missing is the wipers. Otherwise, I have everything on it. That was the video. I hope you enjoy it. I hope you get some useful information. Also, I will leave you the information of the tires in the description of the video. I recommend you also for the summer, if you want to go for the summer, I really recommend you the Hankook tires, the summer tires, which have the rating AA. But if you want all season, those are incredible. Also, they have lovely winter tires, which I test with Hyundai in Alps. So if you want to see that video, definitely check it out. It's the first video on my page, on my YouTube page. So if you want to see that video, how I test those winter tires from Hankook on Hyundai IONIQ 5N, definitely check out that video and also on Hyundai Tucson. But yeah, that was the video. Thank you for watching. Stay safe. Don't forget to like, share, subscribe. Ask me if you have any questions. See you soon in the next one. Bye guys.