Snow tire advice

[Greg Galinsky]

Robert Mangas wrote:
> 
>  Which do you prefer- oversteer or understeer?  I'd take oversteer any 
> day of the week, so all my worn snows are on the back.  The ones on the 
> Miata are ridiculous though; I'm ordering new this week.  Great fun in 
> the dry, however :)
> 
>> From: Robert Myers <robert at s-cars.org>
>> To: "Quattro list" <quattro at audifans.com>, s-car-list at audifans.com
>> Subject: Snow tire advice
>> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:19:25 -0500
>>
>>
>> Hi Y'all,
>>
>> I'm hoping not to get another "T*" thread started (Tors**, Torq**, or 
>> Tir**).  :-)
>>
>> Winter arrives today.  I am getting ready to install my winter wheels 
>> with their already mounted and balanced Nokian snow tires.  These 
>> tires were used last winter and two of them have a little less tread 
>> than the other two.  (The fronts wore more than the rears.)
>>
>> My question is: Should the tires with more tread be installed on the 
>> front or on the rear?  My inclination is to install them with the 
>> better tires on the front but...
>>
>> Your advice?  (Yes, I know.  Keep them on the side where they had been 
>> installed earlier.)  New tire$ would likely be a better choice and 
>> they will be needed a year from now but I'm de$irou$ of avoiding that 
>> $tep ju$t yet.
>>
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The people with the law degrees that are suit happy are saying that the 
newer tires must be placed on the rear; regardless if it is AWD, front 
or rear drive.  The logic they have is that understeer must be a safer
condition.  I personally put the better tires up front on my 80Q and on 
the rear in my Miata that needs all the help it can get.   When I 
install tires for customers; I put the newer tires in the rear.

Greg Galinsky
G & G Service