Swapping front and rear wheels

[2007GTI]

wheres TT when you need him!?

[RedRobin]

thats bollox, as it takes at least a few hundred miles for new tyres to bed in and can be dangerous having 2 new tyres on the front.  thats why any good tyre fitting place will put new ones on the rear, and the put the rear worn ones on the front, then swap them back after a few hundred miles once bedded in.

..........this is what i always do.

....Surely it's simply a matter of driving more carefully for the first couple of hundred miles - Not difficult!

[Cass]

Some guidance from Michelin here:

http://www.michelin.co.uk/uk/auto/auto_cons_bib_pqr_neuf.jsp

Other sites have the same recommendations.

Old school view was always to put the new tyres on the driven wheels however this is not the modern doctrine.

4WD cars (R32) should have their tyres rotated so they wear at the same rate and can be replaced as a complete set of 4, so that the rolling circumference of the tyres are all the same.

Cass