New tyres fitted to rear?

Au contraire, if you remember playing with wagons or toy cars or have ever let go of a shopping cart with a stuck wheel you may have noticed that free wheels always tend to follow locked. A blowout in the front will cause a slight drag to that side that can be easily corrected for. On the other hand a blowout it the back will tend to whip the car around before you know it. You can try this out in an ice covered parking lot if you have rear parking brakes. Pull on the brake and turn the wheel slightly and go for a spin. The classic 900s had true emergency brakes. That is, they were on the front wheels. When you pulled them on on you tended to stop in a straight line.

Not all C900's did, my '88 has the emergency brake on the rear wheels and that was long before GM screwed with the design.

We had a '85 and an '86 classic both of which I miss. I wonder if putting the emergency brake on the front came from the Saab aircraft engineers. Small planes with tricycle landing gear have only a brake on the front wheel. The much ado about a passenger plane landing with a messed up nose wheel a few weeks ago did not concern many pilots. About the worse that could happen would be a further messed up nose gear (or nose). On the other hand if one of the rear wheels was not functioning that would be a real problem.

No, I think the front parking brake was introduced with the 99 model. The old two-stroke models and the Sonett had rear parking brake. The front parking brake was abandoned with the 9000 and from 1988 on the C900.

-- th

Car was a 1982 Rabbit, tire in question was the original, Original spare, and this was last November, of _2005_.

(It was on the rear btw.)

Place the best tires on the Steering wheels. FWD, RWD same same.

TBerk harumph.