dear all with new tires hmmm this video is not vintage - the vehicles are newer late model chev products of some sort they are likely front wheel drive vehicles and what they seem to be saying to me - (and indeed saying to all ) by way of myth busting is- to help the rear of the vehicle to track and follow in situations where friction bond may be lost it is more gooder to place new tires on the rear - but hey it is only a *Michelin Tires* safety video - i am sure they must have been only making this point as a joke yours On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Anthony Egeln <regnsuzanne@yahoo.com>wrote: > So what you are saying is that on a front wheel drive vehicle, the new > tires should go up front? > > Anthony > '89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo) > > --- On Wed, 8/27/08, Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@COMCAST.NET> wrote: > From: Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@COMCAST.NET> > Subject: Re: interesting tire safety video > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 4:51 PM > > Also ... after owning several front wheel drive and several rear wheel > drive > vehicles, I can attest that they "handle" very, very differently in > the context of that video. My front tires wear more quickly on my van than > the > rears and it's AWD, but the main drive is rear. Factor: the van is pretty > heavy and turning is what creates much of the wear. > > bob > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > i wonder about the application on our vans, since all the > > weight is on the rear tires, and the fronts are unloaded. maybe > > putting the new tires on the front wouldn't be bad? > > just thoughts. > > > > sudhir >
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