Hello!

Super noob question for you guys

I recently bought a set of ze40s (18x9.5 +45). They came off of a FWD Civic SI. While checking out the tires, I noticed that the fronts were a little worn, while the rear tires were practically brand new.

My question is: to get the tires to wear evenly, should I put the new tires in the front or rear?

Being that our cars are RWD, would the tires wear quicker in the rear? Or would they wear out quicker in the front, since that's where most of the weight is and where it turns?

I thought it would be an easy answer, but after googling, I got a bunch of different answers. Any advice would be appreciated

 

In my experience, rears wear twice as fast as the front. You definitely want the better tires in the rear, most tire places recommend that even for a FWD car.

 

Thanks bro!

 

Yup rear wears faster for sure.

 

Rears usually wear quicker. WAY quicker if there's a lot of rear toe-in...

Car is pretty much 50/50 plus/minus.
With a full tank, there's more weight on the REAR tires.

 

The fronts will wear faster than the rears in a primarily track car that is overly pushy

A street car will basically always wear the rears significantly quicker

 

Rears wear at least twice as fast as the fronts.

 

I find it really matters on the surface and track. When autocrossing on rougher surfaces I found the fronts to take a lot of punishment. Same with smaller tracks with short straights. Likely mostly due to lots more heavy braking into hard, tight corners. I think on larger, more sweepy tracks you will find the rears to wear a lot faster. I think overall I find more on the rears, but I run a square setup and rotate them a lot. I rotate them every 2 autox events or after every track night event we do locally.

On stock, staggered sizes on my Ap1, when I ran B street rears wore at least twice as fast as some have mentioned

 

So in conclusion: the s2000 has a 50/50 or so weight distribution, and depending on the surface and track, the front tires may wear faster, but in most cases for daily street driving, the rears will wear faster, so having the newer tires in the rear would be ideal

Thanks for the info y'all!