Originally Posted by 4reboy

Well regarding putting the old tires on the front, that probably won't happen for me only because I have bigger tires in the rear... I don't want to try and turn 245's up front with my manual steering, the 235's are hard enough.

Also, I haven't bought new tires yet, I have gone the used tire route. I can get a tire with 70% or more tread left, mounted and balanced for 20-30 bucks depending on the tire. I'm going to try to earn some money around the house or something to at least get 4 GOOD used tires, maybe 225/60/14 in front and 245(or255)/60/14 in the rear. It all depends on what the shops have on hand... I've also considered going to 65 in the sidewall height, the 60% sidewall on a 14" tire seems small, but maybe it's because my car is like a monster truck right now.

I may look into new tires if I can find them for a good price. I just now I need to replace the fronts because of serious dry rotting, I believe the rears are only cracked on the top of the sidewall, but not in between the treads so they should be okay for awhile. I'll give it a better inspection when It's back on all 4 wheels

Originally Posted by 4reboy

^now I really want new tires. I don't want to have a blowout.

The past 6 months or so I've just dropped the tire pressure down a bit to reduce failure chances. I'll start lookin for some other tires...

Originally Posted by tx65coupe

Couldn't dropping the pressure actually make the tires run hotter and increase the chances of failure? I would just leave them at about 32 like they are supposed to be. What are you running them at anyway?

Originally Posted by tx65coupe

It seems to me that especially on a front wheel drive car having better tires on the front would be more important since the front wheels do the steering, most of the braking, and are the drive wheels.

Originally Posted by TheMarco

Gah... apparently it's hard to get white lettered BF Goodrich tires around here. I'm still looking Didn't want to ruin the look of my car by putting black ones on.

Originally Posted by TheMarco

Gah... apparently it's hard to get white lettered BF Goodrich tires around here. I'm still looking Didn't want to ruin the look of my car by putting black ones on.

Originally Posted by 4reboy

around 31-33. When I said drop the pressure I didn't drop them a considerable amount, just a little to make the tires less hard so to speak. This was just the advice of the tire guy. Before I was running around 34-36 psi

Originally Posted by Adrenolin

Tire Rack also explains it well here when they got to test drive new tires on the front and the rear at Michelin's Laurens Proving Grounds. The top half explains it well and the bottom half tells about their experience.

Check out this link (Michelin) and read the last question regarding where to install two new tires. That link also includes a 2.5min video Mounting Two Tires.


Just put newer tires with better grip on the rear wheels.