Two or four is a real question and it has an honest answer, which is not always four. Start with the tread you already have. If the pair coming off has a millimetre or so left and the pair staying on is comfortably above four, buying two is sensible and buying four means paying again for tread you own. Where the good pair is down near three, you will be back within months and paying twice for the fitting.
Then position. New tyres belong on the rear axle, whichever end drives the car. A front tyre losing grip in the wet pushes the nose wide and you feel it happening. A rear one lets go behind you and the car rotates before you have decided anything. So the new pair goes on the back and the better of the old pair moves forward.
The rest is matching. Same size and speed rating across an axle, and preferably the same tread pattern, because two patterns on one axle brake at slightly different rates. These get booked in advance, at home or at a workplace.
Two decisions and you are done: which tyre, and what time. After that the van comes to the car rather than the other way round, so a set can go on while it sits outside the house in Well Hall, outside the office, or in a bay on Bexley Road if that suits the day better. Boxed in on an Avery Hill terrace or wide open in Mottingham, say which on the phone. Tight in Mottingham, easy in Well Hall: neither stops the job.
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Cars around here stand still most of the day and then do a fast run, which is the pattern that leaves one axle finished and the other barely touched. That is why the two or four question comes up more often locally than a straight set of four would suggest. We measure all four before quoting for any of them.
The rears had plenty left, the fronts were nearly down to the wear markers, and the owner had rung expecting to buy a set. Two went on the back, the sound pair came forward, and that was the whole job.
A car near Eltham Palace with all four tyres within half a millimetre of each other and none legal for much longer. Splitting that across two visits would have meant ordering twice and balancing twice. The set went on in one morning on the driveway.
A car off Well Hall Road whose rear tyres were wider than the fronts straight from the factory. Nothing moves between axles on a car like that, so the only question was which axle needed doing. We read both sidewalls before ordering a thing.
No law says so, and a single tyre is fine where the one beside it is close in depth and the same type. Where they are far apart, that axle brakes unevenly in the wet. We will tell you which you are looking at and leave the decision with you.
Because understeer is recoverable and oversteer usually is not, particularly on a wet road with passengers and a loaded boot. Every tyre maker says the same. It surprises owners of front wheel drive cars, who assume the driven end should get the better rubber.
Rarely. One ruined tyre alongside three good ones is one tyre. The exception is four wheel drive with a centre differential, where a single new tyre against three worn ones puts a permanent difference in rolling circumference through the transmission.
Yes, and it is how much of the planned work gets done. Give us the address or the bay, leave the wheels reachable, and it is finished before you come out. Balancing is part of the fitting, and the old tyres leave with us.
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