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Chris Lovell 08-11-2008 12:07 PM

New Tire - Rear to Front rotation needed?
 
I am replacing my damaged passenger side rear tire today. All tires have approx 10k miles of wear. Should I rotate my existing fronts to rear and put the replacement tire on the passenger side front. I was thinking the differential might be unhappy with slightly different wear diameters on the old versus new rear tires. Or, is the wear of only 10k miles insignificant and I can simply replace the right rear with the new one.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
CL

Jeron 08-12-2008 08:24 AM

Good question. How much wear have you had in 10k? That can vary alot.

Generally you want new rubber in back, understeeer is safer than oversteer.

The 02 525 should have an open differential so I wouldn't worry too much about the difference in tire diameters. Even if it was LSD it probably wouldn't matter.


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