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Originally Posted by Sliver
Wait, so you're at the bottom of a snowy mountain road in, say, a fwd Honda Civic. You have to get up the road and you only have two winter tires. You're going to put those tires on the back. That's insane. They obviously have to go on the front. I thought you were just messing around when you said you'd put the crappy tires on the front and the winters on the back. How do you expect to get traction in a fwd car if you have crappy tires on the front and good tires on the back. It makes no sense whatsoever.
I'm willing to prove this in the winter. We'll take my daughter's VW Sportwagen and do some experiments. Kind of a waste of time since I know I'm right (I have done this), but if it'll put this to rest we can do it together.
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The only test results that really matter will be high speed braking(straight line and corners) to see if the rear overtakes the front of the vehicle, which is the main reason to do this(and comparing to alternate setups). Obviously you will have better acceleration traction by putting grippier tires on the front. But I'm sure you could just Google this too, as I can't imagine it hasn't been done before.