mixing tyres ???

rilly99

Any down side to fitting 2 different tyre makes to rear axle , I have pratically brand new tyre I got from a friend who was scrapping his car can't get a match/same make so is it ok to mix with same size height etc but different tyre pattern ( not driving high performance car)

Anan1

It's not a good idea, tyres should be the same size/make/wear level at least across each axle. I'd use it as a spare.

CiniO

In Ireland it's legal.
In most EU countries it's illegal.

It's also not advisable, as different tyres will have different grip, so during emergency braking, fast cornering, etc, you might encounter problems.

rilly99

so if someone got a puncture and goes to garage and the tyre cannot be repaired and the garage does not have same make they should buy two ??

Avns1s

rilly99 wrote: »

so if someone got a puncture and goes to garage and the tyre cannot be repaired and the garage does not have same make they should buy two ??

It is down to what a person values most, a half worn tyre or their safety. In relation to getting an other one of the saem as your friend gave you... if it was a good tyre, i.e. branded and popular due to being good quality, I'd be surprised that you wouldn't be able to get another somewhere.

I'm with Anan on this. Under no circumstances should tyres be mixed on the same axle. I would use the odd one as a spare and only use it to get me out of trouble, whilst driving accordingly.

Anan1

rilly99 wrote: »

so if someone got a puncture and goes to garage and the tyre cannot be repaired and the garage does not have same make they should buy two ??

Either that or find someone with the same tyre?

dunsandin

Most of the cars I have bought have had 4 different tyres, - probably dead wrong, but I can go with the theory that if conditions were a bit mixed, at least one of the corners might have some hope of clinging on in there.



(and because its not a good idea to mix tyres, I've usually gone down to my mate who has a tyre center and got them binned for 4 new ones fairly sharpish - your life is worth more than a few tyres - tyres and brakes and wives - the three things not to neglect, oh yeah, and your kids, and the lawn, and leaking gutters...well anyway, tyres are important)

rilly99

Avns1s wrote: »

It is down to what a person values most, a half worn tyre or their safety. In relation to getting an other one of the saem as your friend gave you... if it was a good tyre, i.e. branded and popular due to being good quality, I'd be surprised that you wouldn't be able to get another somewhere.

I'm with Anan on this. Under no circumstances should tyres be mixed on the same axle. I would use the odd one as a spare and only use it to get me out of trouble, whilst driving accordingly.

ok thats fair enough you only buy tyres in pairs and always replace them in pairs even if one if ok

rilly99

Anan1 wrote: »

Either that or find someone with the same tyre?

understand and assume it is popular and go to different garage there is still the issue of matching new with worn ??

dr.fuzzenstein

dunsandin wrote: »

Most of the cars I have bought have had 4 different tyres, - probably dead wrong, but I can go with the theory that if conditions were a bit mixed, at least one of the corners might have some hope of clinging on in there.

Yeah, what's the deal with that?
Once bought a car and had 4 completely different tires on it, what the hell was the owner thinking?
Soon had them replaced for 4 of the same, but at a push you could have different front/rear tires, but always the same tire across the axle.
Since different tires have different levels of grip it could be that either the front or the rear ones give way sooner, letting that end break away.
If I had a busted tire and the dealer didn't have the same one I'd see if he had a second hand tire of the same size (better than the emergency doughnut) for cheap and try to hunt down the original.
I don't know what the law in other countries is, I remember a long time ago it was only stipulated that you shouldn't mix cross-plies with radials, but who has seen a cross ply outside of a classic car show recently?
And, yes, if one tire was toast and the other part worn, I'd keep the part worn one as a spare and get two new rubbers (the same ones of course).
Cause once you put one new tire with a worn one on the same axle, you will find the other one wears and you'd have to replace that and from there on it it's never going to be right again

dunsandin

I bought a van last week - starship mileage but in fairly good shape, doed, etc, and it has a full set of really new looking, shiny dingdongshenfung tyres, and by g, they are mightyly crap. They are all the same brand, all are un-worn, but there would be more grip on a sheet of that bog-roll they make kids use at school. So, maybe people should focus on having not just legal, within limits tyres, but actually get tyres that are made of somthing more grippy than coal. I would imagine that having a fartstone and a badyear "set" on the rear, and a MichaelsIn and a Readerstoned on the front, would be better than a full set of Made in Saipan, from re-cycled bottle tops, matched set. That van causes me quite a few butt-clenching moments, and I'm going down on monday to get a full set of somthing thats made of rubber fitted.

kirving

Buying two tyres when one has a puncture is a bit much really if the new one has a similar amount of wear vs. the other side and isn't some chinese crap.

In reality, the road surface isn't going to have exactly the same friction on either side, each tyre will be loaded differently if you're driving around a corner, and how the car is loaded.

If the ESP or ABS has to step in, it will vary brake loadings anyway(if your car has it).

Obviously not condoning putting rubbish tyres on the car, or having vastly different specs on either side, but it's hardly necessary to change two if there's only a slight difference.