How do you replace your tyres?

[grkify]

Slightly misleading tittle but hey. Basically I have a lease car for work which has 4 different make tyres all at different tread depths and the lease company wont replace a tyre unless its just on the legal limit hence one tyre being changed at a time. With my personal car if I have to replace a Tyre for example because of a puncture ill replace across the axle if the other tyre is older than a year old or say 10k miles basically if there is a significant diffrence in tread depth if there isnt ill try and get a tyre with matching tread pattern. My logic being if I need to make emergency maneuvers or suddenly brake I don't want one tyre to have more grip than the other. Just wondering if I have been going about tyres all wrong or if its just the lease company putting my safety bellow there profits? What would you do on your personal car should one tyre need replacing.

[Pit Pony]

I move the tyres around until all 4 wear out at the same time, but I damaged one and had to replace it, although it was with the same type. It still had 4 mm tread when the other 3 were ready, so I did all 4 and put that one in the shed in case I destroy another ever.

[lufbramatt]

Do some burnouts?

[Riktoid]

I would replace both on the same axle asap.

My OCD wouldn't cope with different brands/wear on the same axle!

[Toltec]

It would be a shame if you drove past a building site and ended up with nails/screws in all four tyres...

[Transiter]

Toltec said:

It would be a shame if you drove past a building site and ended up with nails/screws in all four tyres...

That would be a shame, it would be even more of a shame if said screws ended up being near the sidewall, so not repairable.

[T0nup]

Accidents happen to tyres all the time. ;-)

[grkify]

I am glad its not just me.

[grkify]

lufbramatt said:

Do some burnouts?

FWD 1.3 diesel nothing exciting.

[Transiter]

I understand tyres on different axles can wear faster, like fronts on a fwd, but how did the previous driver wear down single tyres?

[BOBTEE]

My work van is leased, when I take it for tyres I leave the guys a bag of screws and a Stanley knife on the passenger seat, just in case the lease Co. play funny buggers! Seems to work, not had one knocked back yet!

[grkify]

Its a multiple driver car and unfortunately its stop start stop start some questionable parking techniques and the useless lease company mean that the tracking is a mess and is unlikely to be sorted they really do skimp had issues with complete loss of power when changing gears but as it still drives and doesn't require an mot for another year so they are unwilling to do anything. Unfortunetly the company I work for literally has 100s of cars from this company and is tied to them for another 3 years.

[Who me ?]

Problem with lease folks driving a call centre is that punctures only occur to tread. I had one tyre damaged due to side wall damage ( small hole ?) which tyre place reported as side wall damage and I had a nasty shout from call centre place. Next time I drove the van to the tyre place ,told them it had happened on the way and no comments from lease place. but some lease places can be a problem. One bloke I know had a just legal tyre put into spare and a new one fitted. I had one lease van where the wrong size tyre had been fitted. Lease company solution- swap spare and wrong sized tyre. Tyre centre manager wouldn't play ball .not safe- it don't leave.

[grkify]

It truly is a complete nightmare. I had considered a personal lease car previously thinking it was no hassle got an issue drop it off get it fixed pick it up no cost to me but the hassle these work cars have it has truly put me off.

[MG CHRIS]

I replace them using a tyre machine in work very handy tool to have.

[ging84]

oh the horror of driving a car with unmatched tyres
what the fk is wrong with you people?

how do you cope with road surfaces with are not 100% even with a uniform grip level? do you just get on and drive on them, or do you start complaining to the council that their race tracks are st ?

[jamieduff1981]

ging84 said:

oh the horror of driving a car with unmatched tyres
what the fk is wrong with you people?

how do you cope with road surfaces with are not 100% even with a uniform grip level? do you just get on and drive on them, or do you start complaining to the council that their race tracks are st ?

It depends how st your car is whether you notice or not.

[sparkyhx]

Transiter said:

I understand tyres on different axles can wear faster, like fronts on a fwd, but how did the previous driver wear down single tyres?

Probably driving round Milton Keynes and all the roundabouts

[PanzerCommander]

On my current car I replace the whole set, I rotate them every 5k with an oil change to keep the wear even.

I replaced them one pair at a time on my previous car as the ST used to chew through fronts at an alarming rate.

[McSam]

sparkyhx said:

Transiter said:

I understand tyres on different axles can wear faster, like fronts on a fwd, but how did the previous driver wear down single tyres?

Probably driving round Milton Keynes and all the roundabouts

Oh God, don't, mine still haven't recovered to a decent wear pattern after a year commuting across MK! Fourteen roundabouts in a ten-mile journey, unreal.

Rather entertaining on a wet evening, though