jasonh wrote:
Some sources reckon it doesn't matter and some reckon having different tyres on the same axle is a horrendously bad idea. What's the answer?
That's cobblers, unless you have different width wheels/tyres from front to back, or different compound.jbsportstech wrote:Whether its a front or rear drive it makes little difference.
Rabiedmushroom wrote:please can you then explain how "front tyres are perpetually trying to make you spin"
Rabiedmushroom wrote:if you had grippies on the back, baldies on the front, then in same situation surely you'd understeer? My front wheel drive cars would plough straight on. Eeek!
Gareth wrote:...but I remember one of the car programs on TV carrying out a practical test driving a car around middlin' bend in the wet, and with different levels of tread of the rear tyres.
Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:Apart from when travelling in a straight line ...
as soon as you turn the steering wheel, you introduce a sideways force on the car. The front wheels follow the arc you point them into, the back ones have to absorb the sideways momentum generated by the change of direction. Imagine a very wet road, with nice grippy tyres on the front, bald ones on the back. What happens if you turn a corner?
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