Should you replace all your tires on your auto at one time?  

Hi beautyqueen26,

If a person cannot afford to replace all four tires at once then they should replace the two worst tires with new ones, have them installed on the drive axle (probably the rear axle if you bought an old truck it would be rear wheel drive), and ask the tire dealer to put the best two remaining tires on the front.

The tire dealer will be able to tell you how approximately how much life is left in those tires, and if they are dry-rotted or unsafe, they usually have good used tires to replace them with for about $26 a piece until you can afford new ones.

What i would do is rotate the front tires to the back and put new ones on the front if the front tires are still good. Other than that I would just go for all 4 new tires. It isn't good to have unbalanced tires that are warn with new tires from what I have been told.

Hi beautyqueen!You can replace only one if you want to,it does not make a difference which one you replace at all.My boyfriend works in the woods.And he always has to replace a tire from being busted with a new one.I know this all to well.Rocks,stumps,no more treads etc.He just replaced one friday with a new one,he busted it driving over a stump with a sharp branch sticking out.MEN!!He,he!As long as you have enough tread on all the other wheels its o.k.BUT,if its almost NO tread hardly left,youd better buy new ones and protect your safety!Have you tried after market tires?I dont know if you have this kind where you live,they are called "KELLY"tires.

Don't rule out getting all four because if you can afford it they sometimes have much better sales if you get all four. I have seen sales where if you buy three the fourth one is free and things like that. So in the long run you could end up spending a lot less by getting four at once than if you got two at a time. It all depends on your finances and whether you could do without something short term to be able to save long term, like cutting back on something that isn't as necessary like an expensive fancy coffee that you may get every day as an exmaple of what many people buy and never realize just how much they spend on something like that. Of course if you are already very thrifty, there may not be much you can do.

I had that dilema recently. I bought my car a couple months ago. My front tires were worn to the legal limit and the back ones still had a wee bit of life in them. We opted to replace all 4 so that rotation can be done better. lol if we get the rotation done when it needs to be it'll make all 4 tires last longer.

It is best if you replace all four tires at once. If you can't do that, you definitely need to replace them two at a time. It's never a good idea to just replace one tire, unless your others are almost brand new (think less than 3 months old). Otherwise the wear will just be too uneven.

If you replace just two tires, that will work, but they will wear faster than if you replace all four of them at once. If you replace them all four, and get them rotated when you are supposed to, they should last a lot longer, than getting two now, and two more a few months from now.

My husband has been doing it all the time. We can't afford to change all four tyres at the same time, so he will change the first two front tyres and later replace the two at the back when money is available. It is safe as long as we don't drive too fast as if to race in a track. Lol. Until now nothing has happened to the car when he is driving. So I guess it is safe to change the front tyres first and later the back ones.

i think if you are capable and has budget to get new tires at once then its good. its always nice and safer to have new tires.

You can get away with only replacing two at a time if you need to...we do it all the time! Just put your new tires on the drive axle like was mentioned before...rear on rear wheel drive (and older 4X4's usually), front on a front wheel drive and then pick the two best of your old tires to keep on the other axle. Also while you're at it, check the condition of your spare. They can get so dry rotted from sitting, you might be better off switching it out with one of the two remaining old tires.

But, to answer the question,,,Yes it is BEST to replace all 4 at the same time but not a MUST.

Many people think like that. But my friend who is a specialist in tyres suggest which new tyres to be put in rear and which tyres to be put in front and when it has to be replaced. If it can give 2000 kms. he will not allow us to change, though he owns a tyre shop.