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[chrisgixer]

If you rotate your tyres, they wil wear more e evenly,and you wont suffer from as much stagger.

Front to rear, yes (Although I think Chris has a different size on the rear) but not sure I'd rotate left to right. Most tyres for an Omega are directional, so this wouldn't be possible anyway.

As Kev says.
Fronts to rear no problem. Costco insisted they would only fit new tyres to the rear of a rear wheel drive car.

"Off you go then" says I. "See how far you get"    (Rears are 9j)

I know the correct thing to do is fit new to the rear.  But I would never ordinarily consider swapping side to side, or rear to front, without expecting some odd feeling through the steering due to pre existing wear playing games (tram lining). Although if new(er) tyre was in better nick then maybe.

Luckily the only option on my particular car is to swap side to side, as the rears are bigger. So it was easily recoverable. After a while got there in the end.

[Kevin Wood]

I would never fit new to the rear on an Omega purely because the first 50% of a tyre's life are the least prone to cause tramlining on the front, so that's where they get put.

I don't agree that it's best to fit the most grippy tyres on the rear anyway. Power oversteer you can do something about. Understeer and poor braking performance (and even that only happens once the tyre is below legal levels IME) you are stuck with.

[aaronjb]

BTW, Chris, I think I have a voucher for eye tests at specsavers ... 

[chrisgixer]

BTW, Chris, I think I have a voucher for eye tests at specsavers ... 

Oi! Is there a voucher that allows full reading of oof threads? Specifically the bit where it says "I didn't swap the wheels over, costco did" ! 

Although costco do their own glasses.... 

Bah. They're obviously shit then.