Running different tires: front and back

[BKViper]

I've never tried this, but GT5 does give us the option to select our tire compounds before races, and there are two drop boxes, one for front and one for rear.
So, you could technically run Comfort: Hard on the front and Racing: Soft on the back, or other such weird combinations.
Has anyone actually tried doing this?
If so, what was the effect.
If it is something you do regularly, can you describe the logic behind picking varying compounds?

 

[Rajareits]

Of course.

For example if you drive a muscle car or some sort, where your back wheels do a lot of work but your front ones don't. Then you put harder tyres on the back and have a balanced tyre wear.

 

[oohhh yeah]

Of course.

For example if you drive a muscle car or some sort, where your back wheels do a lot of work but your front ones don't. Then you put harder tyres on the back and have a balanced tyre wear.

Or to fix understeer and oversteer:tup:.

 

[REDMARIEN]

I tend to slam into corners, so I normally put harder tires on the front for Tire wear races.

And by slam I mean late breaking not literally. =P

 

[DVNTST8]

In GT4 I'd put different compounds on front/back during races that were long enough to be concerned with tire wear. Example, the 24hr LeMans race, if the fronts wore out quicker than the backs, I'd run a harder compound up front until I could get close to the same amounts of laps from both fronts and rears, like RMs on front, RS's on rear.

 

[Villain]

I've put stickier tires on front while horsing around in online drift sessions. Also on the 9hr Tsukuba B-Spec, I put Racing: Medium on the rear while I had Racing: Soft on the front. It made the tire wear a slightly closer to even (the rears still went out first).

 

[DKLion3s]

Or with most AWD drive-trains, the front has to do a lot of work ie: propel, brake & steer. In most cases you will select a harder compound for the front. It's somewhat similar to FWD cars where the front is doing all the work.

Now if you like your cars to drift a little when cornering, usually select a harder compound for the rear-axle.

 

[ghostrider135]

Put some softer tyres on the front for FF cars and they wont understeer anywhere near as much when pushing hard

 

[allen-XY]

yes, got different.

for example, I use R10 which is MR drive-train on Indy 500. The rear tire wear faster because the engine is on the rear and there are hardly need a brake at that track. so the weight always remain at the rear of the car, make the rear tire wear faster.

so a combination of soft at front and hard at rear will balance the duration of the tire.

 

[HBR-Roadhog]

My brother has started using harder tires on the front of his RWD drive cars to help him with the oversteer. I would not do this myself but it seems to be working for him.

 

[ShortAznGuy]

The only time I ever have different tires is when I'm drifting, but it's still rare. For cars that I use for drifting, I buy all the comfort tires for the car and test them out. Sometimes, the rear and front tires are be different.

For the most part though, both front and rear tires for my cars are the same.

 

[Gigantoad]

I once used harder tires on the back on my FGT by mistake and wondered why that thing was hardly controllable. So I don't think I'm gonna do that again

 

[calan_svc]

Throw softer tires on the front of an AWD car and it will drive almost like a FR car.

 

[smoke1485]

I put f: soft. R: hard on my fgt for an endurance race on the last stop just to see how it felt. Needless to say after spinning out 3 times in one lap I came back down the pits. Uncontrollable.

 

[RacingManiac]

I do that in B-spec based on AI's tirewear. Especially if the pitstop is more tire wear driven vs fuel mileage.

 

[porschedrifter]

Because it's fun? Helps with drifting, I haven't used it in GT5 yet, but used to do it in GT4 alot.

 

[United6694]

Best thing i did was put comfort hard on the back of a 458 and racing soft on the front, then went around the full Cape Ring track, that is some hectic stuff

 

[3thanol]

Good for FF cars, better tyres on front helps reduces understeer, on MR/FR can make the car very snappy especially under braking.

 

[kangsta]

its defo worth putting on harder tyres for rear wheel drive cars in b spec races....ive noticed on some cars they really eat up soft tyres...go for medium and hard tyres for longer races but generally you dont need to mess around with them unless the cars atleast 500hp plus..