Tires Only
What is your opinion about where new tires should go when you buy only 2?
Whenever I buy only 2 new tires Discount Tire says to put them on the back so you don’t have oversteer. I say put them on the front so you can brake good in an emergency. Where do you think the 2 new or best tires should go?
Raybdog, Misha, and Rea have it right.
I admit I always got this backwards, too!
I had always thought that if it’s a front wheel drive car, then surely I want my good tires on the front, right?
However, when installing 2 new tires with a deeper tread than the other two, they should be placed in the rear to minimize the chance of oversteer.
What is oversteer?
OVERSTEER:
The tendency of a vehicle to steer into a sharper turn than the driver intends, sometimes with a thrusting of the rear of the vehicle to the outside. Example a vehicle is said to have an oversteer condition during a turn when the rear tires have less grip on the driving service than the front tires have. The tendency is for the rear of the vehicle to slide out toward the outside of the turn. Oversteer is also referred to by the term Loose.
The tire manufacturer’s have been saying for years that the better tires, when they are not matched, should go on the rear of the car. I had just never heard it until recently when my tire guy informed me.
They maintain that it’s all about control and you have less control in the rear, so the better tires should be back there so you don’t lose control/oversteer. (You don’t want the back end coming around on you!)
Check out some links I dug up, especially that last one…
http://cartalk.com/board/showflat.php?Number=284066
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=52
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tires
(Look under tread section.)
(I was busy typing this long email and Misha beat me to the punch on the video!… EXCELLENT link, my friend.)
http://www.michelinman.com/care/reartire_video.html
(Download the larger 9 meg video if you have high speed internet. It’s worth it.)
Go with what your tire stores and tire manufactuer’s are telling you and not what your friend, your dad, or some so-called answer’s expert says. That includes me.
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