If you are replacing two tyres rather than four, the only question that really matters is which axle they go on, and the answer is not the one most people expect. New tyres go on the back. Not the front, even on a front wheel drive car where the fronts do the work and wear out first. The reasoning is about what happens when grip runs out. A car that loses front grip in the wet pushes wide and scrubs off speed, which is unpleasant and recoverable. A car that loses rear grip rotates, and by the time you have noticed, it is already happening.
So a new pair goes to the rear and the part worn pair moves forward. The other half of the rule is that the two on any one axle should match: same make, same model, same size, same speed and load ratings. Two different tyres on the same axle brake and grip differently on either side of the car, which shows up at exactly the wrong moment. We will tell you where we are putting them and why before anything comes off, whether that is an office bay off Cowcross Street or a permit space near Charterhouse Square.
You choose the tyre and you choose the time; everything after that is our problem. The van carries the stock, the fitting gear and the balancer, so the work happens wherever the car is already sitting, whether that is a driveway in Hatton Garden, a side street in Charterhouse Square or the corner of a car park at work. The wheel comes off in Charterhouse Square, not on a ramp in Barbican. Nothing is towed out of Cowcross Street or Charterhouse Street; the work finishes there.
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Around Smithfield the cobbled market approaches and the tight metered bays punish tyres unevenly, so it is common here for one axle to be finished long before the other. That is exactly the situation where axle pairing decides whether a set of two is money well spent or a car that behaves oddly in the wet. Since we come to the bay, the whole thing gets settled where the car is standing rather than in a queue somewhere off Farringdon Road.
A front wheel drive car near Charterhouse Square needed two tyres. The new pair went on the back and the better of the old two moved forward, which is the standard we work to regardless of what the car arrived in.
A car off Cowcross Street had different tyres either side of the front axle from separate visits elsewhere. They were replaced as a matched pair.
Two tyres changed in a metered bay while the owner was at work. The car never moved and the old tyres left with us.
Because losing grip at the back is much harder to correct than losing it at the front. A car that runs wide in the wet slows itself down. A car that steps out at the rear rotates, and the correction has to be right first time. The better tyres belong where the consequences are worse.
They wear faster, which is a different thing. The fronts steer and pull, so they wear out first and get replaced more often. That is exactly why the newer pair should be moved back and the older pair worked at the front, where their limits announce themselves early.
In our view yes: same make, same model, same size, same ratings. Two different constructions on one axle grip and brake differently on either side, and a car pulling under braking is not something to discover at a junction.
Yes, and plenty of people do. We note what has gone where so the next pair goes to the right axle. It is worth keeping that record, because in six months nobody remembers which corner is which.
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