FWD low on grip - Solved !

[EE80Liftback]

Yesterday my garage guy rang me and told me he didn't know what to do with the information I had given him. I had sort of not decided that for myself as well...

If I wanted new tires before I go to Denmark next wednesday I had to get them mounted this thursday so they had to be ordered today... This morning I got on the train back to Groningen and took my car to the garage myself to decide together what to do.

The two Vredensteins are in the back, the two Michelin's are in front. They all have good profile left. However, the letters stamped on the tires where deciphered by my garage to mean the Michelin's where made October '99 and the Vredensteins in '96...

This afternoon we decided to get two new Michelin's ( ) for the front and we are going to put the old Michelin's on the back. This might seem unwise since it are those Michelin's that seem to cause the lack of grip but we're hoping and expecting we will not notice the stiffer (dried out) sidewalls they seem to have gotten over the years on the back.

Please remember I'm not rich and buying new tires when the old ones still have good profile can be considered luxery... I feel this is the best I can do for now and I'm hoping it will be an improvement.