Slow puncture caused by the garage

petrolhead69

Hammyman wrote: »

Wrong.

AT ALL TIMES you want the grippiest tyres on the rear. A FWD car with worn rear tyres can suffer lift off oversteer, usually on roundabouts.

True as the halfwit bint following me the other night found out, they shut the forth road bridge as usual for a heavy load crossing but she hadn't noticed the cars in front slowing down, she mashed on the brakes at the last minute and spun her 206 and stopped sideways. missed me by inches. plenty of grip at the front, none at the back so the back end just wanted to keep going. Didn't frighten her too much obviously as once we were going again she tailgated me all the way over the bridge.

cyclonebri1

That's also a lot to do with the way the cars loaded. The brake balance is very much a compromise when you consider the load can be anything between a single light weight "bint", to a car full of rugby players + luggage

I'm sure there will "inteligent" brake balance soon, although intelligent drivers would help

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

iamana1ias wrote: »

If it's a front wheel drive car, you want the grippiest (newest) tyres on the front.

If it's a rear wheel drive car you want the opposite.

If it's all wheel drive you want grippy tyres all round.

Grip has little or nothing to do with tread.

The tyres with the most tread should always be on the rear axle of the car, whether it is FWD or RWD or AWD.

Obukit

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers! wrote: »

Grip has little or nothing to do with tread.

The tyres with the most tread should always be on the rear axle of the car, whether it is FWD or RWD or AWD.

The reason, in case anyone was wondering, is because losing grip at the front (skidding) is much easier to control than losing grip at the rear (fishtailing/spinning). Even if you're the world's most cautious driver, you never know when you'll get a tyre blowout at 70mph on the M1.

cyclonebri1

Obukit wrote: »

The reason, in case anyone was wondering, is because losing grip at the front (skidding) is much easier to control than losing grip at the rear (fishtailing/spinning). Even if you're the world's most cautious driver, you never know when you'll get a tyre blowout at 70mph on the M1.

Easy, drive via the A1 , then you won't.