Which pair of tires wears faster on a daily driver - front or rear?

I bought this car used with 20k on it now its 35K. I have not rotated the tires yet but thinking about it. My rear tires have significantly more depth than the front ones. The question is - which pair is usually wearing faster? If its the front, I should rotate now, if rear, means the owner only rotated once before selling and I should keep it this way until the rear catches up with the front.

 

Rears if you're spinning them; fronts if not. With 35K miles on them, I'd probably put the money you'd save by NOT rotating/balancing them and put that towards new rubber. Otherwise, put the better rubber up front if you still think you have some life in them.

 

My rear tires wear way faster than the fronts.
It's a RWD!

 

LOL.....it all depends on how much you let them burn baby burn....

Fronts wear quicker with normal no burn out driving.

 

Edges on the front tires, center on the rears.

 

IN CA I was always finding that the rear of my Screaming Yellow GT was getting a black dust on it, but I never did any "Burn Outs". Just loved strong acceleration. I rotated my tire a few times, maybe four times in 30k miles.

Here's my thought/question. I had about 31k on the car when I had a flat that destroyed the right front. I had been thinking about new tires, but was forced into it. What we noticed was that all the tires were looking pretty good on the outer sides, but were bit low on the thread depth on the inner sides.

Now I know some cars have camber settings to give (Positive?) the lower part of the tire a bit more outboard than the top to increase handling (such as my old BMW). Is that true on the GT's? Its never been aligned, tracks just fine and dandy, and the stock/original Perelli's did go 31k miles, and were not looking like they needed to be replaced really soon.

Anyone?

 

My stock tires (235/50/18) wore evenly for 82K miles (including about 50+ runs at the track). Rotated them every 5000 miles they were all evenly bald, mostly down the center, except one which showed more wear on the inside edge.

 

Your description would be negative camber

....and YES, this is something that can be done to your Stang to improve cornering. It is hard on the inner edges though and would need to remove tires from wheels to rotate. This assumes you DON'T have directional/asymmetric tires that would prevent such rotation. I have always run neg camber and nearly always directional/asymmetric tires and just dealt with the adverse wear. I don't spin the wheels, but I drive corners VERY hard so I wear-out all over the place anyway I don't need to any longer as my SLA set-up prevents the need for neg camber so will wear-out all over the place anyway, only slower

 

I just replaced my stock Pirellis at about 29k.

Rears had a little tread left, but not a lot. I light em up every now and then but not a ton.

Fronts were showing belts on the inner part of the tires and pretty bald everywhere else.

 

Daily Driver, Fronts.
Daily Racer, Rears.
Crazy Driver, All 4.