I did a pseudo-tire rotation. Some readers may remember, my car came with 215s on the driver's side and 205's on the passenger side. Looking at front driver's side tire when I was changing out the wiper blades (the wheels were turned so I could see the tire tread well) and it was more or less on the wear line. Both front ones were. The back ones had considerably deeper tread. Due to the mismatched sizes on each side and one of each were worn more than it's matching size, I couldn't do a real rotation or put the 215s on the rear and the 205s on the front because I'd still have a worn out tire on the front on one side.
So, I just swapped the front for the rear on each side independently, keeping the 215s on the driver's side and the 205s on the passenger side. This way I have the better tread tires on the front where it matters more for drive train traction & steering. Maybe it will keep my tires from spinning on wet pavement when taking off from a stop, like the worn out ones have been when on the front. I have had to creep off the line due to that unless facing downhill.
Since fronts wear out faster than rears (especially on FWD), maybe I won't need to buy a complete set of tires too soon. The currently better ones will hopefully catch up to the rear ones in terms of wear before the rear ones become bald. When it's time, I'll get a matching set of all 205s.
I doubt I'll buy Coopers unless I can find some USA made ones. The ones it has now are China made. SHAME ON YOU COOPER!!! The last Coopers I had on a 91 Corolla, they were the worst tires I've ever bought. They were worn out after about 15k miles. When purchasing the set, the manager of the official Cooper Tire store in Texarkana, AR was completely rude, unprofessional and downright violent, asking me "Do you want to take this outside?" when I got angry about him coming into the customer lounge and changing the channel to what HE wanted to watch instead of what *I* wanted to watch. I'm the damn customer. The TV was there for MY USE, not HIS. Frankly, I should have demanded a refund and had them remount my old tires and drove to Discount Tire, Sears or anyplace else, but I needed the tires that day as I recall. I did have them remove the road hazard. I didn't want them to get anymore money out of me than necessary for me to get the tires.
It's so bizarre how this "set" is all Cooper and the same tire model, but 2 different sizes on each side. I think somebody bought them that way on purpose and probably had the larger ones mounted on the rear when new. But at some point, it got a "free tire rotation" once early in the tire's lives and it ended up the way it was when I got it. The mismatched fronts were equally worn and the mismatched rears were equally worn, so they have been mounted that way a very long time. It could be they were even mounted wrong when NEW by the tire shop and the buyer never looked/noticed, and never had them rotated because they wanted larger on the rear.