[Healeys] New Tyres

[richard mayor]

Around 1962 I had a blowout in the right front tire of my 1952 Oldsmobile. It did not have power steering. I was a young strong fellow but that blowout almost tore my wrists off my arms.  The car swerved hard to the right and I left the highway and almost into a ditch. If I had not hit the brakes as hard as I did, I would have ended up in that ditch. There was heavy traffic in the oncoming land and if the left front tire had blown I would have had a head-on collision and perhaps killed.
 
So, what would a rear tire blowout   (.... or a rear tire losing pressure and going flat ? )  do that is worse than a front tire going flat.    I should add that modern tires do not have blowouts like we did back in the 50's and 60's.  So a front tire going flat will make the car extremely difficult to steer. Whereas, a rear tire going down would perhaps make the car want to over-steer a bit. And that is an easy instinctive driver correction.

Richard

Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 09:13:24 -0400
From: ttrotter2 at triad.rr.com
To: timwarduk at aol.com; healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] New Tyres

Rear, imho.

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-------- Original message --------From: Tim Ward  Date:03/15/2015  9:02 AM  (GMT-05:00) To: healeys at autox.team.net Subject: [Healeys] New Tyres 
Hi Team Due to an unfortunate puncture I have had to replace two still good tyres with new ones. The Other two are still good. I estimate still at least 60% tread left. My question is, in the opinion of the Team, should the new Tyres go on the front or the rear? The car in question is a BJ8. Many thanks Tim Tim WardWarwick House12 Mill RoadKislingburyNN7 4BBTel: 07855 388 751 http://www.shuttermagic.co.uk/http://www.kislingburyonline.co.uk/index.php  
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