Blizzak. Studless snow tires

[hatersaurusrex]

They are a great tire! Right now I have GoodYear Ultra grip Ice tires on my '89 Lebaron. These are as good if not better than the Blizzaks.

You should always put new tires on the back, front wheel drive or no.

Watch this, especially the comparison that starts at about the 1:00 mark. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whHbWYmxpwg

I can see the logic in that when talking all-season tires.  However, I prefer to have more traction up front in snow/ice conditions because that is what steers/stops my car.

When i was prepping used cars at the Dodge dealer in my earlier years, my boss said you always put the new or best tires on the fronts. It didn't matter if it was a front or rear drive vehicle. The reasoning is that the fronts do the steering and the majority of the stopping. If you can't steer, it doesn't matter if you have new tires on the rear or not.

Yeah while I can see the concerns with traction outlined in the video, on a front wheel drive car the fronts wear out far faster.   They do all the steering, stopping, and starting.   If you put new tires on the back and half-treads on the front you'll wear the rest of the tread off them much faster, and then need to rotate those good rears up front (which are half bald now) and put new ones on the back after they're done - meaning you never rotate the fronts at all (again) and perpetuate this cycle into infinity - or you'll rotate them like normal every couple thousand miles and wind up with the skidding problem you see in this vid anyway every time the good tires go up front.

If you're going to drive through giant puddles of water at 75 without slowing down, maybe having mismatched tires in the first place is a bad idea....  I know not everyone is Rockefeller but if safety is your number one concern and your fronts are bald because you couldn't be bothered to rotate every few thousand, then you have two options:

1. Buy four new tires and suck it up
2. Don't own a car in the first place