Agreed, ive always put new tyres on the front of a hot hatch. Took michelins advice this time round and stuck them on the rear. Car was instantly rubbish. Totally ruined the handling when your pressing on. New ps4s going on the front sat morning. So will effectively have brand new matching rubber all round. I think the key to getting the best out of the tyres on fk2 will be rotating backs to front after say 6k miles. Then changing all 4 when the fronts are done. I wont ever be putting new tyres on the back of my fk2 (yes i know this is wrong) but after living with it like this for a month, id never do it again. Ive been having to live with torque steer, understeer and a lack of front end grip under hard braking which is not what the type r is about.
Perhaps the ps4s on the front have got too hot too often and are well past their best despite them still having 3-4 mm?
New ps4s fitted , car is back to normal. Im sure that new tyres on the rear is correct if you are going to take evasive action in poor weather conditions. But for the remaining 99% of the time new tyres on the front of the fk2 feels best.