Thread: Tyre Rotation

Why are the dealers silent on the issue? You would think LR and the dealers would have a view on the issue!

Dave G

Hi all, In wifes car the owners manual says to rotate r/f to r/r & l/f to l/r when running any radial tyre.

Originally Posted by disco 3 door

Hi all, In wifes car the owners manual says to rotate r/f to r/r & l/f to l/r when running any radial tyre.

Yes I asked around and I believe this especially applies if you tow a lot with your vehicle.. something to do with the way the steel wires in them run..

Rotation is a must if you want decent mileage out of your tyres.
Both rears to front, Left front to spare and road the spare.
Check your tyre pressures every week or two and before a long run.
Rotation, balance and wheel alignment every 10,000k’s
I only have the two tyres that are going on the front balanced.
Most tyre places are not set up for proper 4wd wheel alignments (shiming etc). The ones that aren’t will just do a toe-n-go. Check and adjust the toe-in. So unless your vehicle is pulling badly or your tyres are wearing unevenly or you've just had some front end work done, you SHOULD be OK with a toe and go.

I'm a bit reserved with this whole tyre rotation thing. I have 6 tyres, front go on roof, backs go to front, and roof go to back. Balanced and aligned every 10K. 5 of the tyres will not see 50K, the sixth spare which was new but 4 years old when it went on is done at 35K.
Checked tyre pressures fortnightly to the 4psi rule, and always lowered them when 4x4ing. It has made little difference when hoping for 80K out of them, 100K is a pipe dream for me.

The workshop manual for the Puma are posted elsewhere on this site. On page 183/1479 it states "WARNING: Always use the same make and type of radial-ply tyres, front and rear. DO NOT use cross-ply tyres, or
interchange tyres from front to rear."

Make of that what you will but the fact that the owners manual states a similar thing makes me wonder why not?

Anyone got any ideas?

EDIT: Reading further "NOTE: DO NOT attempt to interchange tires, e.g. from front to rear, as tire wear produces characteristic patterns
depending on their position. If tire position is changed after wear has occurred, the performance of the tire will be
adversely affected."

Originally Posted by newhue

Checked tyre pressures fortnightly to the 4psi rule...

Pardon my ignorance but what is the 4 psi rule?

Originally Posted by GlennWA

The workshop manual for the Puma are posted elsewhere on this site. On page 183/1479 it states "WARNING: Always use the same make and type of radial-ply tyres, front and rear. DO NOT use cross-ply tyres, or
interchange tyres from front to rear."

Make of that what you will but the fact that the owners manual states a similar thing makes me wonder why not?

Anyone got any ideas?

I don't like reversing the direction of radial tyres, but I have no problem swapping them front to rear.

If I didn't I'd only get 25-30,000km out of the front's.

The factory state that in case it creates any wandering with the slightly different wear patterns, but I've never had that occur across three different brands of MT's.