protege5 wheels tires

Hi, I am new to this forum. I just purchased a used P5 with 120,000 miles on the car. When driving the car from MA to NYC I started to hear a loud humming noise that was constant at any speed over 20mph, this noise when coming to a stop has a distinct rotating sound which leads me to believe...

I got some good advice from reading this forum so I thought I'd post my wheel and tire change in case it helps somebody else. I've got a 2002 Protege5 with 110K miles on it. I had enough of the low profile one direction tires in that hard to find and expensive 195/50/16 size, with terrible...