Tires - older ones on front or back?
Just got 3 new snow tires on the minivan. old ones were 6 years old and short of tread, except a one year old that I kept with the new ones. Costco tire guys put the older one on the front, saying t...
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Lesser traction in the back can lead to or exacerbate oversteer in bad circumstances. For many modern front wheel drive vehicles, there is so much natural biasing toward understeer (not to mention electronic stability control) that it's basically an academic concern rather than a real safety issue under reasonable conditions. I prefer to have the newer tires on the front on my car if I have two newer and two older because the difference in winter traction is not merely academic, but sometimes the difference between making it up a hill or not.
