Mixed tyres on the rear

[texaxile]

Hi,
Recently got my first scooby, a hawk eye wrx on an 07. It's got a pair of new falkens on the front, but a verdenstien and a Chinese special on the rear, both with approx 7 mil. As I'm still getting to grips with the car, not even driven in the wet yet, I was wondering if having 2 different tyres on the rear might not be a good idea, especially as the quality is so different.

Is it worth biting the bullet and puttin a pair of falkens on the rear?. I do less than 4k a year in mileage so waiting for them to wear down and then change them might take a while........

Cheers
Pete

[RB5Bird]

I would, just for peace of mind. When I changed from Pirelli ones all round, I changed them all at once to Toyos, the rears would have been alright for a short while, and I had planned on doing the fronts, then the rears.
The garage seemed to think that it would handle a little different, but I think that was a scam to make me buy two more. I did it in the end because the rears weren't that great, I was just trying to spread the cost, but decided to swallow the cost, and they've been fine since.

[texaxile]

cheers RB5

I'm going to go with 2 falkens on the rear, pairing up with the fronts. The Vredenstien I might keep as it has a good 5-7 mm on it,& perhaps stick it on another 17" alloy if one comes along on Ebay as a spare. the other (an Autogrip) I might as well fleabay or sell in the local freeads, failing that give it away.

I recently did some googling on Autogrip tyres, and it really does not make very good reading.....Why a car would have 3 relatively decent tyres and one of total rubbish I can't really work out.