newgsrdriver

Good post obsidian.

Want to get power to the ground? Best tires up front.

Want to stop sooner? Best tires up front.

As mentioned earlier, if you rotate your tires frequently, you shouldnt have this 2 or 4 tire issue. I replace all 4 at once, and theyre usually all 4 equally dogged.

DiAbLo3785

....anyone ever see those fwd drag races with the obviously bigger tires that obviously have more traction in the front of the car?

SP00NFed

i'd say get all new four and rotate them when they should be done so you'll have nice new tires and you'll know when its time for new ones again

JimBlake

That's true, but I said that to help explain what would happen in a panic stop with the bad tires on the back. When you do a handbrake turn you EXPECT it to happen & your reaction times are better.

When you stop hard, the car's weight shifts towards the front, pressing the front wheels down & giving them better traction. The rears get un-weighted, & if you're going around a curve at the time, it'll oversteer badly - quickly, too. (Trailing-throttle oversteer.)

If the rear tires are close to the same condition as the front it's OK. If the rears are much worse, it happens earlier, more suddenly, & it's difficult to recover from this.

Any taildragger pilots out there? I think ground-loops would be a better example.

Provocateur

I understand where you are coming from now. You do have a very good point but I would rather go into oversteer than understeer any day and with the baldies on the front, an understeer is more likely to happen.