One of the reasons for putting new tires on the rear on FWD cars is that you don't have any control (steering or throttle) over the rear wheels.

 

There's a set of Falken 512's on ebay for $180. It's for 4 though. That's $45 a tire. Is that cheap?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW

 

I agree somewhat, but more than likely he's not going to put bald tires on the rear. If he was going to do that, might as well purchase four tires.

When I purchased new tires for the rear of my car, the front ones only had about 6k miles on them so I went ahead and rotated them. I have experienced nothing that you have mentioned althought correcting oversteer in a FWD is fairly easy as long as you dont over-correct.

Also leaving older ones on the front constantly will cause you to have to purchase two tires more often.

 

I'm not saying he should put bald tires on the rear. He said the replacement tires are needed for the front, which implies that the rears still have a decent amount of tread left. I meant to buy two new tires, move the rears with decent tread left to the front, and put the new tires on the rear.

 

The only reason I'm saying to put the new tires on the front is because, on FWD's especially, the tires wear more. And to that, I added as long as the tires he would rotate to the rear wouldn't be bald, then oversteer wouldn't be much of a problem.

 

Okay, so moving the old rears to the front will wear them down sooner. But putting the new tires on the front will also wear those down sooner. Either way you're shortening the lifespan of a pair of tires.

It's not like if you put new tires on the front and older tires on the rear you're going to magically turn your car into some kind of tail-happy unsafe road sled. It just decreases your margin of safety in emergency driving situations.

 

thanks... seems like u are the only one who answered my question... I asked for a link and everyone started typing essays.... just playin y'all thanks for all the info but I think I might get the falken's...

 

Well, you didn't say what *kind* of tires you were looking for.

Like I said, I typed in that size on tirerack and there were like 30 different tires in your budget

 

No problem. Have fun at the track!

 

Rather than debate the ideal position for a pair of new tyres on a FWD vehicle...I have a more realistic tack for this discussion to embark upon....buying a full set of four, yes, four tires at once. :eek3:

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Back when I ran 14" x 6.5" rims on my GTi, and I put a hell of a lot of miles on the car, I ran Yokohama AVID H4 tyres in the 205/55 R14 size. They had decent durability, fine grip in the dry and exemplary grip in the wet. Snow is another issue entirely, and I can't speak to that. But for a sport-oriented, reasonably long-wearing tyre, I'd recommend the Yokohama AVID series. [or its successor where applicable]