Hi,
I was wondering how bad is handling affected by mixing tires in the front and back. Are we talking night and day or very little?
The rear tires are new and are the same for both.
The front tires are 50% life tread and are the same for both.
All tires are of the same type (summer , max performance, ZR, staggered) but the thread pattern and manufacturer is different.
Thanks
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Quote: Hi,
I was wondering how bad is handling affected by mixing tires in the front and back. Are we talking night and day or very little?
The rear tires are new and are the same for both.
The front tires are 50% life tread and are the same for both.
All tires are of the same type (summer , max performance, ZR, staggered) but the thread pattern and manufacturer is different.
Thanks | Well, I've mixed mine and have gotten mixed results. My advice is to try to stick with the same manufacturer.
FRONT / REAR (OEM, Pilot Sport)
Yoko ES 100 / Pilot Sport <--Mix was ok with this set up.
Yoko ES 100 / BFG KDW2 <--Ack! The car can tramline unpredictably when changing lanes. 
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Basically by doing this you are making yourself a sdefacto tire test/vehicle dynamics test driver. It may be fine, or it may kill you and anybody riding with you. Are YOU willing to take that chance? To save a bit of money? That will look great on your grave stone, "He and his family died to save money on tires."
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Quote: | Well, I've mixed mine and have gotten mixed results. My advice is to try to stick with the same manufacture | Agree with that!
25 years ago installed 2 Goodyears on the rear of a Fiat X1-( (remember those?)for a customer, front had Michelins. Customer came back in a week, asked me to drive car. When I changed lanes on the X-way, car almost did a 180, scared me to death. Needless to say, we put his old tires back on and sent him to Michelin. HOWEVER, mixed brands countless times on "regular" cars with no ill effects
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I got a nail in a rear tire a few weeks ago and replaced just the rears with Goodyear F1's while keeping the OEM Potenzas on the front. The car drove horrible with the mixed tires and one evening out my wife actually asked me if I spent the afternoon drinking. I replaced the fronts with the F1's within a week and the car drives great again.
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The problem may be the car seems fine under normal driving. But then a truck pulls out in front of you, or drops something on teh freeway, or ....
And THEN the car does some whacky thing when you try to avoid the whatever, and you spin into the guard rail or into on coing traffic, of into the median and flip over.
WILL this happen?  CAN it happen? ABOSULTELY. How will you know? You won't until you push the car that hard. And then it may be too late.
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