Hot Wire is the fifth studio album by the glam metal band Kix.

Hot Wire peaked at number 64 on the Billboard 200 in October 1991.

[5] It failed to match the sales of Kix's previous album, Blow My Fuse, selling slightly over 200,000 copies.

[6] Producer Taylor Rhodes co-wrote five of the albums' ten songs with Donnie Purnell (the only Kix member credited as a songwriter).

At the same time, Crack the Sky member John Palumbo and songwriter Bob Halligan Jr. (Judas Priest, Kiss, Icon, Blue Öyster Cult) got two co-writing credits each.