Vicki Butler Henderson explains why new tyres should go on the rear

[Joewalshe38]

Her hand position on the steering wheel seemed to be all over the place.

[Sanddancer777]

How exactly do the rear tyres follow the same path as the front? The ONLY time that happens is if you're going in a absolute staight line!! I can't understand why anybody thinks it's better to have more tread on the front than on the rear. But it's a front wheel drive i hear you say, so what? It would be like putting a new tyre on the rear of a push bike, you just don't do it!!

[fromRomaniaWithLove1]

what about esp and traction control ? did she turned them off?

[Jerram89]

if this is so then why will most tyre shops (in Australia at least) still always put the best two tyres on the front unless you ask them otherwise?

[jamiebridges123]

All very well and good but the new tyres have the most tread and thus the greatest capacity for channeling water away. most of the time the tyres are going in the same direction at the same or similar angle (straight ahead - unless you're making a particularly sharp turn which would be at lower speeds rather than higher speeds) it would make more sense to have the new tyres at the front as these will channel away water which means the rears will be going through water which has been displaced

[306maxievo2]

@jamiebridges123

That statement makes no sense. Vikki isn't talking about straight line performance, she's talking about cornering and most people know would rather understeer off and hit that tree with the front of the car (you know, the bit that's designed to hit things) rather than oversteering off and hitting the tree side on.

In most cars, understeer is far easier to correct than oversteer as well.

[chalenger42]

@306maxievo2 hence why high performance road cars ar set up to understeer under heavy cornering.

[J90JAM]

DORIFTO!

[Kj16V]

@J90JAM SUPAHASHI!

[paulhunter123]

oh fit

[mrrrxxxxx]

@rightfredsdead best comment on the page! lol

[stormzaknafein]

the front wheels remove the water so the rear wheels dont have to do a thing...

[aluisious]

Nah bullshit. The girl in the video didn't even try to countersteer in time.

Granted, new tires on the rear are safer, but having a clue helps too.

[TheCidiot]

Looks like she pulled the handbrake at 2:45

[philtripe]

i used to steer into the skid and drive right through, now i know the proper procedure is to take your hands off the wheel and bite your knuckles

[Sidowse]

If you lose the back-end in a FWD car you need to give it more gas, that pulls the rear of the car back into line.

If this happened to you with a RWD car you were giving it too much gas into the corner; although any acceleration while turning in the wet is a bad idea with a RWD car.

[danglingslong]

Load of shite. Front wheels in a fwd car do all the power, steering, and most of the braking - common fucking sense my dear.

[EjoWitch]

@danglingslong correct. I think, they are trying to say (in between the lines), that it is statisticaly safer to lose grip in front. It happens in lower speeds, but more people can react to it.

[danglingslong]

@EjoWitch Fine, and true, in this scenario of cornering on drenched slabs of concrete.

I would say though, that I'm much more likely to need to brake very quickly. I've pretty much never seen a fwd car have the back end step out in the wet. I've seen plenty of cars run into the back the car in front,

I would also say that someone or something walking/driving out in front of my car is beyond my control, so I'd like to prepare for that as much as poss. Don't drive like a tit and you won't spin

[EjoWitch]

@danglingslong the last think you've written is the problem. When I am on the roads, I think majority of people drive like a tit.. Not lot of people seem to predict what can happen in certain situations...

Regarding the oversteer of the FWD car. Try it on the wet surface. Let the car go in the constant speed, turn the steering, while holding the accelerator in the same position. When the car starts turning release it. As the car drops the nose down, you will quite likely lose grip on the back.

[danglingslong]

@EjoWitch If one drives well - and one should - one will not have the back step out. You have to be seriously agressive to get the back end of a car to step out these days, and if you're driving like that you deserve all you get.

Personally I'd rather see a driver perform an emergency stop in the wet and save a third party from injury. If you lose the back end of a car it's considerably less likely to involve anyone else.

[EjoWitch]

@danglingslong well, with statistical approach, majority of drivers are average or below average, and that is the problem... And I think they see cars in way, the more three letter combinations it has (ABS, ESP, WTF, ...) , the more laws of physics it can break... results of such thinking can be seen on roads everyday.

[aluisious]

@EjoWitch LOL, I want my next car to come with WTF.

[EjoWitch]

@aluisious 8-) if you are lucky, you can also get the nextgen WTF, also known as FTW 8-)

[FODASSEZOR]

If you watch it closely the rear wheels lock up before the car starts to slide anyways.

[trodengore]

this is odd in Australia when I worked for Bridgestone we were always told and I have then told customers the safest place to put your new tyres is on the front that way when you need to stop you can still stop, and if you have worn tyres on the rear and the road is wet then just slow down and take it easy, difference of opinion I guess.

[twenty514]

smh happened to me a few months ago, got an oil change, guys at the service shop rotated the tires w/out me knowing, so i had worn tires in the back. I spun out on a full-circle entrance ramp and landed in a ditch... as a result missed a days pay or work and paid $60 to get towed out of the ditch, luckily no accident. Be safe :)

[lucrativeelfmongrel]

I would like to woo her then take her for a lovely meal then not offer sex. She'd like that.

[crumbmc]

i would love to go for a drive with her. or just park up somewhere ;)

[Ruperttube]

@crumbmc

Park up at the local pond so she can join her fellow swamp ducks.

[MrSupertwo]

That was a Great Clip, thanks

[siraff2]

How about another take on it - since this apparently causes a lot of accidents each year why not improve road drainage? We pay hugely inflated road tax so should expect good roads. Add that to the safety aspect - a speed camera won't help as this was tested at 30mph - and it makes you realise we're just being ripped off year after year.

[Fat50d]

Its not strictly road tax anymore they changed the wording on it