Thread: D4 TYRE ROTATION

Originally Posted by scomac

Hi apom, I just swap rears to fronts and fronts to rears (obviously) every 10k. But in saying that my spare is a different brand etc to the other four.
cheers
Scott.

Yep, keen to use up the spare also

Originally Posted by apom

So in the new D4's (givens its been 4 years from the earlier posts) are people doing a 5 tyre rotation still? I assume as long as you always do the same direction it doesn't matter which way your go?

I do a 5 tyre rotation every 10,000 km to ensure even wear and reach the stage where I can change all 5 tyres at the same time with the same brand.

Mario

Could someone please explain why you rotate your D4 tyres when the D4 manual states that you shouldn’t?
We've just 'upgraded' from a D3. Following LR advice, we didn’t rotate its tyres and had no problems with uneven wear.
thanks
David

I have 2 spares and rotate 3 tyres down each side.
Don't cross sides.
Every 10000km.
Mainly to spread the wear.
This allows me to replace all 6 similarly worn tyres at the same time, and to change brand and type of tyres eg highway vs all terrain.

Originally Posted by David47

Could someone please explain why you rotate your D4 tyres when the D4 manual states that you shouldn't?
We've just 'upgraded' from a D3. Following LR advice, we didn't rotate its tyres and had no problems with uneven wear.
thanks
David

My experience in the two D4s I've had that the fronts wear more. Mind you not as obviously on the MY13 8 speed as the older 6 speed.

Originally Posted by David47

Could someone please explain why you rotate your D4 tyres when the D4 manual states that you shouldn't?
We've just 'upgraded' from a D3. Following LR advice, we didn't rotate its tyres and had no problems with uneven wear.
thanks
David

In a utopia LR world there are no roundabouts........which are front left killers in the real world

Originally Posted by Ozzy119

In a utopia LR world there are no roundabouts........which are front left killers in the real world

Oh, generally I just drive over them .... I knew there was a reason :-)

Oh, I thought this was a serious thread about tyre rotation on d4s.
The choice we can make is do we want 4 tyre rotation , easier, keep a tyre, Ill call it the 5th tyre as the spare forever and hope you have the time/energy to check it for pressure when needed, and when your 4 in service tyres need replacing you can choose exactly the same tyres, whoopeedo, But if you want something else then the spare now comes into play for your decision making..... not for me.
5 tyre rotation : you paid for it then use them up, evens wear over all 5 tyres so when their done you have a choice of replacing all sorts ( though 19" is a bit restrictive), you have at least a check at 10k on your spare and confidence of its use, unless you have some fancy low profile directional tyre then this is how you rotate 5 tyres. (im to lazy at the moment to figure out how you post up images)
Spare > R rear, this "new" tyre will have more load and therefore wear so will start to "balance out overall evenness of wear on all tyres.
R rear > R front, ideally we want our best tyres up front, at 10k this tyre is up for it.
R front > L rear, no reason its gotta go somewhere
L rear > L front, same reason for R rear > R front
L front > Spare
Please get a wheel alignment and balance when doing the above.