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05-19-2005, 06:29 PM | #1 |
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Best tires to the front?
I just picked up my OBS for it's 30K mile service. I have a slightly newer tire on the front when I brought it in. I use that tire to prove the actaully rotated the tire, and not just charged me for it. I was in a rush, so I didn't look if they did or didn't rotate it (Plus I've never had a problem there before). I get home and sure enough the newer tire was still in the front. I went into the house and called the dealer back up, and asked to speak to the GM which they said there is no GM, but the guy offered to help me. I ask him if a tire rotation is included in the 30K mile service, which he replies, yes; then I tell him, I just picked my car up and the tires were not rotated. He then tells me that the only time they do not rotate the tires is if the better ones are in the front already and how the car is FWD bias. I believe him and thank him. Is it true that the better tires should go in front regardless if they are in need of rotation?
CN- Tires were not rotated at 30K mile service. called the dealer back, person who answers the phone tells me the better tires (ones with more tread) should always go in the front no matter if they are in need of rotation. Is this right? Thanks in advance, Steve
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05-19-2005, 08:21 PM | #2 |
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Fronts will wear faster.....makes overall wear more even.
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05-19-2005, 10:26 PM | #3 |
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The point of tire rotation is to keep the wear even. Front tires wear faster in normal driving.
If you want to check a service station's work, you might consider marking a tire. It seems if you went through the trouble of putting a different tire on, you might as well rotate them yourself! I did this with oil filters on an old honda for which I used a Jiffy-Lube place. I'd take a sharpie and mark the filter. Of the dozen or so oil changes I had done, they only failed to change the filter once. Last edited by Stanley; 05-19-2005 at 10:31 PM. |
05-19-2005, 11:41 PM | #4 |
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It depends. For evening out tire wear, yes, you should leave the better tires on the front. They should take the rotation charge off your bill thouggh.
But for emergency handling its better to have the better tires in the back, especially if there is big difference in wear. Let's say you have to make an emergency lane change in the rain because someone cut you off. If you suddenly lift the throttle, the weight will transfer to the front tires. If the rears are more worn out, they will lose traction much more easily. When you yank the wheel, whee! 180 time. If the fronts are more worn the car may slide but its less likely to spin. |
05-20-2005, 12:57 AM | #5 | |
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I have always thought that the front tires should be kept at an optimal thread depth since if a blow out occurs in one of the front tires, the car will suddenly veer to that direction. To a conventional, unattentive, normal driver in the U.S., that would certainly mean trouble if they don't react quickly enought towards the situation. If it were the rear tires that blew, then behavior of the vehicle probably won't be as drastic. -paK +2 |
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05-20-2005, 01:05 AM | #6 |
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I thought it was 60/40 AWD bias to the fronts, so better tread would be up there...
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05-20-2005, 01:28 AM | #7 | |
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The front tires do more work than the rear. They accept more load in terms of supporting weight and under braking loads as well as steering, etc. -paK +2 |
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05-20-2005, 01:17 PM | #8 |
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Better ones on the front because they'll wear faster.
Better ones on the rear to prevent the instability that Mike Wevrick described. Guess what? THEY'RE BOTH RIGHT! Keep up with the rotation so your tires never get worn too much different from each other. Once you screw that up, you gotta put the good ones on the back until you can throw the worn ones out & get back to proper rotation. The spinout risk is obviously more important in the snow, but rainy highways can do it too. |
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^^agreed; best bet is to keep them as equal as possible.
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(I have seen people run fwd cars in the winter with snow tires on the front wheels only and all-seasons on the back. This is great for traction but god help you in an emergency manouver) |
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05-24-2005, 12:35 PM | #11 |
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Rotation is fine, BUT, where would you choose to have a blow out if a tire failed?
Front or rear? |
05-24-2005, 02:47 PM | #12 | ||
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If not, my guess is the tire to blow out is just dumb luck depending on which one hits the rusty old muffler that you didn't see in the road. In fact, it'll probably be the front anyway. And I thought we were talking about one end losing traction from hydroplaning or snow... |
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05-24-2005, 04:24 PM | #13 |
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rotate tires whenever they start showing wear from tire conicity...makes sense right? attempt to keep the tires within 2/32" of tread life with all of them.
and when i balance my tires i try to place the ones with the least RFV in the front. |
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