What to do with my tyres
Discussion
Hi All
Trying to decide on what the best plan of action is with the tyres on my car. About this time last year (well about 14 months ago) it was ready for two new fronts. However, a nail in the side wall of the right left scuppered that and I ended up buying 3 new tyres. The remaining tyre was in very good shape so I saw no reason to change that also.
Now, I have just had a measure and this is the condition of the tyres:
Front Left: Balding outer edge (too many roundabouts) and avg of 3mm tread across the width.
Front Right: 4.5mm avg
Rear Right: 4.5mm avg
Rear Left: 7.5mm avg
These are bridgestone turanza ER300's (205/55/16 asymmetric) by the way.
I am worried that while the Front Left tyre technically has nearly double the legal tread, the outer edge is basically bald which may be considered illegal?
It is going to be an expensive few months so I want to try correct this as cheaply as possible. It seems sensible to me to bin the front left and either:
Put the Rear Right on the Front Left corner and then have the two healthiest tyres at the rear (7.5mm + a new tyre)
or:
Put the Rear Left on the Front Right corner, put the new tyre on the Front left and have the two 4.5mm tyres at the back.
I don't know which option is best, but I did read that your best tyres should always be on the rear of the car. Is that correct? What would PH do? (of course the real PH answer is 4 brand spankin new winter tyres on black steelies but that is out of the question!)
Trying to decide on what the best plan of action is with the tyres on my car. About this time last year (well about 14 months ago) it was ready for two new fronts. However, a nail in the side wall of the right left scuppered that and I ended up buying 3 new tyres. The remaining tyre was in very good shape so I saw no reason to change that also.
Now, I have just had a measure and this is the condition of the tyres:
Front Left: Balding outer edge (too many roundabouts) and avg of 3mm tread across the width.
Front Right: 4.5mm avg
Rear Right: 4.5mm avg
Rear Left: 7.5mm avg
These are bridgestone turanza ER300's (205/55/16 asymmetric) by the way.
I am worried that while the Front Left tyre technically has nearly double the legal tread, the outer edge is basically bald which may be considered illegal?
It is going to be an expensive few months so I want to try correct this as cheaply as possible. It seems sensible to me to bin the front left and either:
Put the Rear Right on the Front Left corner and then have the two healthiest tyres at the rear (7.5mm + a new tyre)
or:
Put the Rear Left on the Front Right corner, put the new tyre on the Front left and have the two 4.5mm tyres at the back.
I don't know which option is best, but I did read that your best tyres should always be on the rear of the car. Is that correct? What would PH do? (of course the real PH answer is 4 brand spankin new winter tyres on black steelies but that is out of the question!)
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