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The rest of this was good advice, but in most cases, you want the new tires on the rear. If you lose traction at the front due to tread wear, the vehicle will exhibit understeer, which is generally safe and predictable and countered in most cases simply by reducing speed - most cars are designed to understeer to some degree, with the exceptions generally being sports cars. If you lose traction at the rear, the result is oversteer, which can be challenging for unskilled drivers to deal with.
Good read and good point, I forgot about that problem. But then I was told from a young age to put the new tires at the front, idk if it has some relation that my family mostly owned rear wheel drive cars, and to this day in my POS 2001 Ford Ka I mount the new ones at the front.
I edited my post to reflect this new piece of info. Thanks!
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