Im getting new tyres to replace worn ones on front of my Fabia.

Now normally you put the old ones from the back onto the front and put new ones on the rear but...

Im going for uniroyal rainsports so im thinking as they disperse water really well they should go on the front, am i right?

the general consensus these days is to fit the new/best tyres to the rear

but at the end of the day its up to you

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got two new ones being fitted tomorrow. I may get them put on the rear and the old rears put on the front.

I would have thought that the best tyres should be on the front in a car thats front heavy with lots of torque. Some slip at the back is a good thing in a FWD car?

Some slip at the back is a good thing in a FWD car?

only if you can drive and you know what the back is going to do if you push it to the extremes

Personally I ALWAYS put the newest tyres on the driven wheels.

the REAR !

they should always be on the rear, a front end slide is a lot easier to control, and requires less room on the road to correct so less likely to result in a collision

any tyre fitter that knows what they are doing should advise you of the same

The tried and tested method is to put the new on the rear axle as understeer is easier and safer to control.....at the end of the day it's down to personal preference.....I like my good tyres on the front so I have steering at all times.....but I know this will make the rear more likely to step out of line and expect it to do so ( I was brought up many years ago on rear wheel drive cars and am used to it)

The thinking is as far as I know as above.

But ask yourself what gives the best grip, a new tyre or a half worn one?

Yes i can see the logic behind that, it was only the fact that the rainmasters disperse water that i thought having them on the front would disperse the water outward so the rear tyres wouldnt be affected as much with water on the road.

I shall get the new ones put on the rear then. Thanks

New ones on the rear, on a FWD car at any rate

The thing is that your front tyres will wear out faster by a pretty big margin, and this way you get a pair at a time wearing out, so the 'per tyre change' cost is a bit nicer. Of course you'll still use the darn things up though LOL.

The legal limit for tyres in the UK is 'lower' than on the continent, and as I drive/drove there a lot, I had to change relatively more frequently. That said, when it gets near the UK limits it gets pretty interesting to drive the car in the wet.

Tyre manufacturers, Michelin, etc. nowadays recommend new tyres to be fitted to the rear because having the best grip on the rear will likely to understeer which is more controllable than loosing the rear.

I personally use the old way and fit them to the front because they do most of the braking, put the power down (FWD cars), steer and they also clear most of the water away when wet. Of course on 4WD cars you fit all 4 new tyres because of the centre diff.

So I suppose it up to personnel preference where you fit new tyres.

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The only "evidence" I've seen to support the manufacturers' current argument used a non-ABS car with feel-free steering, doing an emergency stop on a flooded curve. As you have ABS, better steering, and almost certainly don't do emergency stops on curves often if at all...

We had a man from michelin (not a michelin man...lol) come to give us a talk at work. He explained why you put new tyres on the rear and showed us a video to back it up.

If you go into a corner and loose traction on the front you will have non on the back neither will less tread. But may fair better with good tread on rear.

Since time began - we were told to put the new tyres on the drive axle. Only since the airbag has it changed to new tyres on the rear. (crashing forwards is safer due to modern safety features) Personally I like grip at the drive wheels, and this is definately a personal preference.

I've seen the Michelin video too, and all it convinced me of that I didn't already know was that Michelin are rubbish at dreaming up realistic driving scenarios.