Put New Tires On The Rear, Not Front

Reply Subscribe

Thread Tools

Search this Thread

08-17-2005 | 09:28 AM

Baldy

Thread Starter

Super Moderator

Joined: Sep 2002

Posts: 5,425

From: Tallahassee, FL

read thisI don't know if this was ever posted before, but it's some great info.

excerpt:

Quote:

Next time you buy two new tires, insist that they go on the rear, not the front of your car. It doesn't matter if it's an all-, front-, or rear-wheel-drive car: Always put the fresh ones on the back.

08-17-2005 | 09:35 AM

Cheers!

Senior Member

Joined: Nov 2002

Posts: 3,108

[quote name='Baldy' date='Aug 17 2005, 08:28 AM']read thisI don't know if this was ever posted before, but it's some great info.

excerpt:

[snapback]749380[/snapback]

[/quote]

ah... NO... you should always put on 4 new tires at once and rotate the tires every oil change. You want the car to be balanced not skewed to one type of handling

08-17-2005 | 09:56 AM

Baldy

Thread Starter

Super Moderator

Joined: Sep 2002

Posts: 5,425

From: Tallahassee, FL

If I have 2 tires with 75% tread, and 2 with no tread, I'm not going to buy 4 tires. So if I'm going to do it wrong and not buy 4 new tires, I might as well be wrong the safest way and put the 2 newest ones on the rear.

08-17-2005 | 10:18 AM

TYSON

Senior Member

Joined: Jan 2003

Posts: 2,871

From: London, Ontario

Strange how Michelin steps up to show how the whole Firestone-Exploder blowout fiasco would not be a problem with better drivers. I like.

08-17-2005 | 10:20 AM

1988RedT2

Super Moderator

Joined: Apr 2002

Posts: 2,532

From: VA

As with all things, there will be one bunch of experts that claim the new tires should go on the back, and another set that claim they should go on the front. I don't doubt that for a majority of drivers (idiots) that they SHOULD go on the back, but as with ABS, the benefits to a skilled driver are dubious at best.

08-17-2005 | 02:53 PM

inanimate_object

Senior Member

Joined: Nov 2003

Posts: 907

From: Ireland

On front wheel drive cars you're better off with the new tyres on the front, modern cars are biased so much towards understeer that it's very rare that you'll lose the back end unintentionally.

Mark

08-20-2005 | 05:37 AM

RETed

Senior Member

Joined: Nov 2002

Posts: 925

From: Honolulu, Hawaii USA

Learn how to drift....

muHhaUAHAuuA

-Ted

http://fc3spro.com/

09-09-2005 | 04:28 AM

sweet7

Senior Member

Joined: Jun 2003

Posts: 1,430

From: Stacked outside you're trailer door

Speaking of rotating tires. With an AWD car, could you put the tires in any pattern you like? Or would it best to just to go right to left, left to right and keep the same set in the front and the same set in the back?

Kinda a stupid question I'm aware, but I've always been curious about that.

09-09-2005 | 04:43 AM

CletusFD3S

Senior Member

Joined: Dec 2004

Posts: 742

DUH! i worked at a tire shop for a long *** time. common knowladge to me. for awd the best way is just LF to LR and RR to RF. IMO. thats what ive seen in my past

09-11-2005 | 07:22 PM

#10

89 Rag

Senior Member

Joined: Jul 2002

Posts: 2,467

From: Portland, OR

[quote name='Cheers!' date='Aug 17 2005, 06:35 AM']ah... NO... you should always put on 4 new tires at once and rotate the tires every oil change. You want the car to be balanced not skewed to one type of handling

[snapback]749387[/snapback]

[/quote]

I would stick with the above information!

If you are only gonna buy two tires, turn around and buy two more.

A couple hundred bucks isn't gonna kill ya', the alternative might.