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Car Forum / Mazda / Mazda Miata / August 2005Where to put best tires?
Hi, The rule: put best tires on front. Does this also apply to RWD? Steven - - - Yes. Stopping & cornering are more important than acceleration. Poor balance problems are also more noticable on the front. I have owned a string of RWD cars, my usual practice is to put a pair of new tires on the front, then move the worn ones to the back. Tyre fitters are happy to do this. > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > - - - > Yes. Stopping & cornering are more important than acceleration. Poor > balance problems are also more noticable on the front. Thanks for the confirmation! Steven - - - > Yes. Stopping & cornering are more important than > acceleration. Poor balance problems are also more noticable on [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > a pair of new tires on the front, then move the worn ones to > the back. Tyre fitters are happy to do this. On both of my Miata's the rear tires wear faster than the front tires, so putting new tires on the front seems like a bad idea. You'll end up with far less tread on the rear tires.  SignatureGrant Edwards grante Yow! I will establish at the first SHOPPING MALL in visi.com NUTLEY, New Jersey... > The rule: put best tires on front. > > Does this also apply to RWD? If you drive your Miata hard, the rear tires will wear about twice as fast as the fronts. Rotate at every oil change so they'll wear evenly, and replace all four together. --- Lanny Chambers '94C, St. Louis http://www.hummingbirds.net/alignment.html > Hi, > > The rule: put best tires on front. > > Does this also apply to RWD? Personally I would have them on the front so they wipe the road for the rears, but the prevailing advice in the UK at least (police, most tyre fitters) is that the fresh tyres should go on the back. The reason is that most people find oversteer more difficult to handle than understeer. What happens when you find a curve? The rears do not follow the same track as the fronts. >Personally I would have them on the front so they wipe the road for the >rears, but the prevailing advice in the UK at least (police, most tyre >fitters) is that the fresh tyres should go on the back. |
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