[Healeys] New Tyres

[Jean Caron]

>From my own experience I once had a blowout on the right rear tire of a full size Chrysler product from the 1970's at approximately 80 mph and hardly felt it and it was a rear wheel drive car. Someone attached a video to another message here and it said that the tire industry recommend putting new tires on the rear but it is worth noting that the cars they used in their demo is a front wheel drive car. I believe that on a rear wheel drive car like our Austin-Healeys, it is better and safer to put the new tires on the front wheels. I had a flat tire on the right front on my return trip from Conclave in Quebec a couple of years ago and I sure felt it and the car was pulling strongly to the right at about 60 mph at the time. 

Jean
From: mayorrichard at hotmail.com
To: ttrotter2 at triad.rr.com; timwarduk at aol.com; healeys at autox.team.net
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 03:46:20 +0000
Subject: Re: [Healeys] New Tyres




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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