On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:44:06 -0700 (PDT), Roy wrote:

On Sep 2, 6:17*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Sep 2, 7:32*pm, "HeyBub" wrote:

Herb Eneva wrote:
Where should you put your worst tires? I say put them on the front. If
you have a tire problem you can control a skid best if the problem is
with the tire on the front. If the problem is on the rear the skid
will be a lot harder to control. * * * * * * What do ya`ll think?

Best tires on the front to help with emergency braking.

In emergency braking, weight shifts to the front, providing increased
frictional force.

Think about what you just said.

As the extra weight shifts to the front, the weight will increase the
traction. Therefore, the increased traction compensates for the less
tread. I can't shift weight to the rear, so the rear tires have more
chance of skidding if they have less tread.

Besides, most drivers can control a skidding front end better than a
skidding rear end. Therefore it makes more sense to do our best to
keep the rear end from skidding.

Let's keep in mind that we're not talking bald tires vs. brand new. If
anyone is driving on unsafe tires, then all bets are off.

Look, it's not just me making this argument. Please find me a modern,
credible site that says the best tires go on the front. I know that
that used to be the conventional thinking and even I was surprised to
see a sign stating that in a tire shop a few months ago.

Times - and wisdom - change.

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Exactly so...we were taught that the best tread should be on the front
for winter driving if we couldn't afford four new tires...now we are
told otherwise and the tire salesman say get ALL four winter tires to
be safe.

Of course they wouldn't have any other motivation to sell four tires rather
than two, right? Costco wouldn't sell two snow tires, some years back. All
tires had to be matched. I let my membership lapse shortly after.

Since when most cars were rear drive and we were taught how to drive,
things have changed. My present vehicle has front wheel drive and it
took a while to get used to this.

FWD is quite different.