1 bad tyre, which corner or the car?

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Basicly i was having a discussion with a friend about which side of the car you would put a bad tyre

He has 3 Toyo Proxies and 1 average brand tyre, all band new.

I thought it would be better on the front because understeer>oversteer, but he argues that if the front went the car is likely to just 360 :S

Obv the answer would be to buy another proxie, but fore the sake of arguement what would you do and why?
 
None of the front ones to be honest as you need decent grip in corners, i wouldnt at all reccommend doing this though as you could be playing with fire.

Also you wont be able to tell as much when your tyres are going bald as one will alway sbe more bald than the others.
 
georges said:
Drive slowly whatever though.
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lol its an average brand tyre, not a piece of plastic. TBH you probably wouldn't notice a hell of a lot of difference unless you were pushing it, but even then i'm willing to bet your friend would run out of talent before that one tyre made the entire car spin.
 
on the front. it will understeer earlier.

i had eagles f1s on the front and some old dunlop stuff on the rear of my old audi coupe (FWD). managed to spin that in the wet as the front kept gripping and the back slid, got momentum and carried on going round. there is nothing really you can do to stop that once it starts. at least with understeer you can back off and if you havent been stupid it will pull back in line.
 
Rain Man said:
Basicly i was having a discussion with a friend about which side of the car you would put a bad tyre

He has 3 Toyo Proxies and 1 average brand tyre, all band new.

I thought it would be better on the front because understeer>oversteer, but he argues that if the front went the car is likely to just 360 :S

Obv the answer would be to buy another proxie, but fore the sake of arguement what would you do and why?
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If the front went the car would just go straight on, surely? Anyway, id rather have big dollops of understeer than oversteer so on the front. And also, the tyre is probably fine, your mate would run out of skill long before the tyre made any difference.
 
Gaygle said:
lol its an average brand tyre, not a piece of plastic. TBH you probably wouldn't notice a hell of a lot of difference unless you were pushing it, but even then i'm willing to bet your friend would run out of talent before that one tyre made the entire car spin.
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That's what I meant ;) I just meant to drive normally, not particularly slowly. (I'm used to calling driving normally slowly, since I could push my car faster than the engine can pull it :p)
 
I don't know about one single tyre ..... but had a talk from a michelin sales rep with video to bacik his claim... If you get two new tyres its always best to put them on the rear you wil be able to control the car more if you start to loose it.
 
*Moangroan* said:
I don't know about one single tyre ..... but had a talk from a michelin sales rep with video to bacik his claim... If you get two new tyres its always best to put them on the rear you wil be able to control the car more if you start to loose it.
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maybe on a RWD car, but not on a FWD car in my experience.
 
As said before, new tyres only have more tread - they dont have magically more grip just cause they are new.

Putting the new ones on the rears avoids the lighter end of the car aquaplaning and spinning in very wet conditions. Also handy as it keeps fresh tyres on a FWD car. Some rear tyres can last 4 years on the rear of a FWD, hardly great Im sure you can imagine
 
Really monged me off when I got glass in one of my fronts.

Considered changing the two fronts, but didn't want to mix brands so changed all 4. :(
 
Rear off side. Most drivers prefer right had bends loading up the rear near side the most.
 
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