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Why not just move the tires from the front wheels to the back?
by cowsandmilk 6y ago
Why not just move the tires from the front wheels to the back?
- bbddg 6y agoYeah isn't this why you should rotate your tires regularly?
- jhoechtl 6y agoYou get downvoted but yes, that's the reason for swapping front to back and vice versa.
- crazyjncsu 6y agoJust so the laymen here don’t think this is some kind of hack, this is what is referred to as “rotating your tires”, which should sound familiar. The problem is that tires are often not rotatable due to staggered setups where the front and back tires are different sizes (very common) or due to directionality of tires (less common).
- ComputerGuru 6y agoDifferent sizes means you can swap left to right and right to left. Directionality means you can swap front to back and back to front. Directional tires of different sizes means you can’t swap a damn thing (as drivers of Porsche and some BMW configurations find out quickly enough.)
- Cactus2018 6y agoMight have different tire size front and back - https://tiresize.com/tires/Tesla/Model-3/2020/ https://tiresize.com/tires/Tesla/Model-3/2020/
- jhayward 6y agoIn commercial tire shops in the US the tires with the most tread always go on the back regardless of any other consideration. This is because losing traction in front causes understeer, which is usually easily managed by typical drivers. On the other hand losing traction in back causes oversteer, which is often very rapid in attack and severe in extent. For some vehicles it is essentially impossible for a non-professional driver to maneuver out of an oversteer event. So for safety sake the best tread always goes on the back. Most shops will refuse to do anything else.
- treeman79 6y agoThen there is my eldest daughter. “Dad, car has been a little bumpy for the past month” I hop in go down to road. Experience is best described as driving on square tires. https://youtu.be/QF7odK55gkI https://youtu.be/QF7odK55gkI Both front tires had massive bulges sticking out. She had been driving like that for a month.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoThis is one of those myths that just needs to die. "Put the good tires on the back" is a terribly inaccurate rule of thumb. Whether you want the good tires on the rear or the front is gonna depend on how the vehicle handles. Most modern mom-mobile type crossover are so biased toward under-steer (usually from a combination of rear weight and stiff front sway bar) that they need all the help they can get up front and putting the better two tires on the rear is just wasting traction because that end was never going to break traction anyway. Also, Firestone happily puts fronts only on my junk.
- autotech 6y agoThe problem is that vehicle handling is dependent on equal grip from all 4 tires. When you introduce differential in traction front to rear, you can throw the "understeer or oversteer bias" directly out the window. Modern cars do a great job compensating for less than ideal conditions but there is a limit. If you still think the new tire on the rear rule of thumb is inaccurate, watch this: https://youtu.be/gSz7cm6MwH0 https://youtu.be/gSz7cm6MwH0