Tires

Best Tires for Kia Optima

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Toyo Tires
onlyhereforpcmr
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Rating 4.0

I recently purchased a set of 4 Toyo Celsius 2 tires for my 2019 Kia Optima. After living with them for a couple of days, they're good but they have a couple of weird quirks.

Pros: Pretty quiet, great snow/ice traction, soaks up bumps great.

Cons: The compound feels unnervingly soft, to the point it feels like it's running on low pressure (it's not). As a result, I feel like dry handling takes a big hit. I can't speak much for MPG but because of how soft the tires are, there seems to be a lot of rolling resistance.

Pros: Pretty quiet, great traction
Cons: soft compound, dry handling
Vehicle: Kia Optima
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Nexen Tires
CP1
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Rating 4.0

On our prescribed sighting-lap line, the Optima's chassis proved compliant while the standard high performance dampers (fundamental design shared with the Sorento's dual flow dampers) and suspension tuning found a good compromise between a relaxed ride and more aggressive roadholding. Off the driving line, the stock Nexen touring tires didn't enjoy steering corrections at speed, and predictably squealed in protest.

Pros: compliant chassis, relaxed ride
Cons: tires squealed in protest
Vehicle: Kia Optima
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GENERAL TIRE Tires
CTK
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Rating 3.5

I loved my DWS06s... they were loud though. I have General GMAX AS-05s on the Optima. They are quiet with the stock suspension, but not as grippy and wonderful as the DWS06s

Pros: quiet with stock suspension
Cons: less grippy
Vehicle: Kia Optima
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Nexen Tires
scotscott
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Rating 1.0

Nexen is shit. Hyundai kia use them as their stock tires and they are absolute dogshit. Honestly 90% of their reputation for poor ride and handling. I popped one on a pothole. 3 mm sidewall thickness.

Cons: poor ride and handling
Vehicle: Kia Optima
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Nexen Tires

And out of all the tires I've ever purchased, Bridgestone/Firestones have been the worst ( only exception were the FR710s on my Aura.) Followed by the garbage Nexens I had on the Optima.

Cons: the worst
Vehicle: Kia Optima
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Nexen Tires
OutOfBounds11
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Rating 1.0

I have some Nexen tires on a Kia Optima and all four are "out of round" with only 17k Miles. Like riding on square block. Crappy tires!

Pros: null
Cons: out of round, crappy
Vehicle: Kia Optima
Mileage: 17000 km
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Nexen Tires
OutOfBounds11
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Rating 1.0

These tires have 17k miles on them in the city and are completely useless now. It feels like I am driving in my Jeep offroad. The car literally pitches and rolls at low speeds; at highway speeds it vibrates badly.

Cons: useless, terrible vibration
Vehicle: Kia Optima
Mileage: 27359 km
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In March 2026, the ranking of tires for Kia Optima on PartReview included 4 manufacturers. It is based on 8 reviews and 25 votes.

Which tires to choose for Kia Optima?

Last month, PartReview users preferred Toyo. 12% of positive votes went to this manufacturer.

In second place: tires GENERAL TIRE — 0%.

Third place: MICHELIN with 0% of the votes.

In the overall ranking of tires, which aggregates opinions of owners of different car makes and models, these brands hold the following positions:

  1. Toyo ranked 11, PR Score — 77. Based on 497 reviews and 1545 votes.
  2. GENERAL TIRE ranked 10, PR Score — 90. Based on 373 reviews and 1147 votes.
  3. MICHELIN — rank 1, PR Score — 85. Based on 2747 reviews and 8504 votes.

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