The scary re the wheel nuts!! Do you know who did the work? They should be told...
Speed limits are imposed on space savers because they have no grip, and massively compromise the handling. “Full size” spare are still often a different size and hence still present a handling imbalance - and speed limited.
I jsut rotate as much as needed to make all four replaceabe at the same time. For example, the Alfa Giulietta is really hard on tyres and at 15k the fronts are 80% dead (but the rears are still 80% good) - on the back they go and by the time the new fronts have gone the new rears have gone through the last 20%... 30K out of a set of tyres is about average
If you need to replace only two, always put the new ones on the back. Crossovers in particular rely heavily on ESP systems to stop them spinning in swerving situations, help it out by not biasing grip to the front...
Speed limits are imposed on space savers because they have no grip, and massively compromise the handling. “Full size” spare are still often a different size and hence still present a handling imbalance - and speed limited.
I jsut rotate as much as needed to make all four replaceabe at the same time. For example, the Alfa Giulietta is really hard on tyres and at 15k the fronts are 80% dead (but the rears are still 80% good) - on the back they go and by the time the new fronts have gone the new rears have gone through the last 20%... 30K out of a set of tyres is about average
If you need to replace only two, always put the new ones on the back. Crossovers in particular rely heavily on ESP systems to stop them spinning in swerving situations, help it out by not biasing grip to the front...
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