Some cars leave the factory with wider tyres at the back than the front. It is called a staggered fitment and it is done for handling balance rather than for appearance. It also changes what you can and cannot do afterwards. You cannot rotate the tyres front to back, because they are not the same size. You cannot move a rear onto the front in an emergency. And when one goes, you are not choosing between two and four, you are choosing within one axle, because the pair on that axle has to match.
Worth knowing before something happens rather than at the roadside. It also means that the spare, if there is one, will only fit one end of the car, and on a good many staggered cars there is no spare at all. When we quote you a set for a staggered fitment we give you the front pair and the rear pair as separate figures, because they are separate tyres. Fitting happens in your estate bay on Golden Lane or a permit space off Whitecross Street, since getting a car out of here easily is not something anybody takes for granted.
The tread has probably been telling you for a while. Tell us the size off the sidewall and a time, and the van comes to the car with the tyre, the fitting gear and the balancer on board, to the drive in Aldersgate Street or wherever it is parked. Old tyres leave the Fann Street area, Aldersgate Street and EC1A with us, every time. You watch it happen in Beech Street, or at the kerb in Whitecross Street. The EC1A postcode and a street in Golden Lane Estate: that is enough.
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Getting a car in and out of the Barbican is enough of an exercise without doing it on a tyre that needs replacing, and the estate parking around Golden Lane and Fann Street fills by morning, so giving up a space is a decision with consequences. All of which makes ordering the right sizes first time worth a couple of minutes on the phone. Read both the front and the rear sidewalls before you call, because on a staggered car they will not say the same thing.
A car parked on the Golden Lane Estate needed one rear tyre. Because the rears are a different size from the fronts, the only sensible answer was matching it to its partner on the same axle.
A driver near Fann Street discovered their spare was a front size and the failure was at the back. That is a common surprise on a staggered car and a poor moment to meet it.
Two rear tyres changed in a permit bay off Whitecross Street with the car left exactly where it had been sitting.
Different tyre sizes front and rear, usually wider at the back. It is done for handling balance on rear wheel drive and performance cars. The consequence that matters is that the tyres cannot be rotated between the axles.
Not without departing from what the car was approved with, and on many such cars the wheels are different widths as well, so the tyre would not sit on the rim properly anyway. We fit the sizes the car was built around.
Within an axle, yes, if the remaining one is significantly worn. A new tyre alongside a half worn one of a different age on the same axle gives you two different amounts of grip at the same end of the car.
Very common on staggered cars, and no obstacle here. We carry the common car, SUV and 4x4 sizes on the van and fit at the roadside, so the answer is the correct tyre rather than a wheel that would not have fitted anyway.
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