My dad sent me this, I thought it didn't make sense for FWD But.....

http://www.michelinman.com/tire-care/tire-basics/reartire-change/

 

that works fine for non-enthusiast drivers but problem is, you'll never get even wear on a fast FWD car. I just use a safer general rule of thumb for driving in the rain - don't push the car.

 

The general idea is that when it comes to a loss of traction, understeer is more desirable than oversteer, and easier to recover from. It's better if you can sense the loss of traction via the front wheels before the rear wheels "step out" on you.

I try to rotate the tires regularly, but if either the fronts or rears need replacing, I replace all four. Since I've rotated the tires two or three times during their lifetime, the amount of wear is generally close enough among the four tires that I don't feel bad about replacing the two that still technically have some tread life left.

 

taurus getting sideways =]

hehe

 

I agree we should all rotate our tires.

 

If you have something happen to your tires and only two are getting replaced, the better tread tires usually go on the rears so that you can minimize risk of hydroplaning.

If you rotate your four tires you can minimize the differences in wear for the tires but wear will always be faster on the fronts.

Since slowing down does help to reduce the risk of loosing traction in the rain, being more careful in wet weather is always a good strategy.

If your remaining worn tires have tread depth of only 4/32" they might be nearly ready for replacing. 2/32" used to be the time to replace tires but performance in the wet for tires with 4/32" isn't very good with stopping distances that are very long.