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Winter tire compound definitely helps on ice, studs or not.
To find rims for my Insight, I just looked for Honda rims in a junkyard. 4x100 bolt pattern, 51.4mm center bore, 5.5" rim width, 45mm offset. Toyota rims do not fit because even though everything else is the same, the center bore is smaller. One could probably put Honda rims on a Toyota but you'd want a ring for the center bore to make sure it's mounted hub-centric.
My girlfriend's Fit came with either 14" or 15" rims with the same dimensions so I figured they'd fit any other rim from a Honda that's 14", but not so apparently. The Civic HX 14" rims I was using on my Insight for winter tires didn't clear her brake calipers - the back of the spokes scraped - and needed a 3mm wheel spacer to let it spin freely. I don't think there's even a spec for this, because my Insight OEM wheels fit and they have the same offset as the HX rims.
In other words, it's a mess.
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