front tires are completely bald. rear tires look still new. don't have enough money for new tires yet.
i know its better to keep your best tires in the rear even for FWD cars to prevent spinouts.

but i'm going auto-crossing this sunday and was wondering if it would be better to leave as is, or swap the rears to the front. its not like i'll be driving in the rain so i won't have to worry about oversteering. but in a dry and racing point of view, like i said, would it be better to have better tires up front or the rear?

 

Swap the meatier ones to the front and keep an eye on the rears. I put thousands of hard miles on completely bald rears without any oversteer problems. They started cording eventually and I cooked off the rest of the tread on the fronts and changed them out for a new set.

 

alright thanks, thats what i was guessing but just wanted to get others opinions.

 

Front wheel drive means you should have the front wheels with the best tires.. Just be careful, you never know what can happen.

 

not neccessarily. like i said, its better to have better tires in the rear EVEN FOR FWD cars to prevent spinouts for say in wet conditions.
think about it, fwd cars promote understeer, not oversteer. lose all traction in rear, its bound to come out, thus producing spinouts.

but for my case, i want better tires up front as morpheous said, so i don't blow my already worn tires

 

Yeah, but our cars are understeery to the point that even with wider or grippier tires up front the rear won't come out

Trust me, I ran 245 T1Rs up front and 225 RE750s in the rear for a long time.

 

ok, ok
i was just saying that in a general case. but yeh, i take your word. i'm gonna rotate them before my trip

 

Yeah even in the rain on bald 225/45 pilot sports in the back, literally bald, so much camber wear, i smoked them bad, so i put them on the back to burn off the fronts, i drove like that for 2 days, did some hard cornering in the rain and never had the back end come out, the front end always slides first..

 

So disappointing, isn't it..

 

e-brake it

 

plus uno.

 

I think the thing you would want to watch for is puddles. Bald tires on wet road is not much of an issue. Hitting a puddle and floating the rear at the wrong time could be. I'd bet most of the FWD cars you see backed into the center divider on the interstate have bald rear tires.
I always keep the best tires up front on my car, but I'm aware of what I'm doing.

 

have you swap your tires before? try swaping every 6000miles.

 

+1
i almost freaking crashed my car doing that i was doing like 90 around a mild turn. it was spring out so all the snow was still melting and there was like a stream of water going acrossed the road. so i pretty much pulled a 180 and was going backwards into oncoming traffic. i was so lucky that there was not any oncoming traffic comming i would of been done for.

but on a lighter note i feel pretty confident now driving in reverse