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Originally Posted by JonnyRocket
Your best tires should ALWAYS be placed on your front wheels. Even on RWD cars. Having traction at the rear doesn't do shit if your front tires can't steer adequately.
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Actually, they suggest (and some tire shops won't do it any other way) that new tires (if not changing all 4) should go on the REAR, even in FWD cars. Reason being if the rear loses traction, the car will spin. If the front loses traction, it stays in a straight line.
Obviously, 4 new tires would be ideal.
On my wife's fwd car, the front tires were toast after 25k miles. Rears still could have gone another 20k if kept on the back. Tire shop wouldn't let me just buy 2 front tires. (I could have swapped them at home if I cared to.). Decided just to put on a full fresh set - even though we don't get much rain anyways and the car isn't driven to the limit. The 4 new tires ended up being a good idea, as the car rides and handles better than it did on the OEM rubber.