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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I said "can't rotate" because, keeping the most worn tires on the front where they wear a bit faster implies that you will never rotate them to the back where the better tires must be.. Winter tires are expensive to rotate left/right because they would have to be mounted the other way on the rim to turn in their tread design direction.
It appears from the web articles that this new rule is based on one tire manufacturer bringing tire sellers to a racetrack with a fair bit of water on one of the turns. I wonder if the advantage in this particular situation has anything to do with winter in my region where the water is solid or fluffy in winter. I wonder if the tire sellers are motivated by the idea of us users tossing our partly worn tires earlier and increasing tire sales. In six winters with these winter tires I have experienced substantial improvement in ice traction. I failed to rotate at first and soon got the front pair more worn, put them on the back . . . and never experienced a rear skid effect with winter tires. It did occur once before winter tires were invented - I touched the brakes on a full size van, rear wheel drive and there happened to be an ice patch and skidding was instant. Lucky I had fast reflexes then and steered out of it immediately.
It appears from the web articles that this new rule is based on one tire manufacturer bringing tire sellers to a racetrack with a fair bit of water on one of the turns. I wonder if the advantage in this particular situation has anything to do with winter in my region where the water is solid or fluffy in winter. I wonder if the tire sellers are motivated by the idea of us users tossing our partly worn tires earlier and increasing tire sales. In six winters with these winter tires I have experienced substantial improvement in ice traction. I failed to rotate at first and soon got the front pair more worn, put them on the back . . . and never experienced a rear skid effect with winter tires. It did occur once before winter tires were invented - I touched the brakes on a full size van, rear wheel drive and there happened to be an ice patch and skidding was instant. Lucky I had fast reflexes then and steered out of it immediately.
