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  1. 29th October 2012, 07:43 PM #1
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    Service - disappointed....again

    Aside from the outrageous cost for a standard 2 year service with less than 35K on it I was seriously disappointed with the land rover guidance on wheel rotating. I specifically asked for a wheel rotate and balance and came away learning that LR specs only recommend swapping axle to axle, NOT front to rear.

    I have a new set of AT's and I want to get max life out them as I know that the front wears more. It has too, there are heaps of roundabouts here. Even the tread measurements show a 2mm difference front to rear!!! But they wouldn't do it!! so now I have to go to Beaus or another and get them swapped.

    And how much did it cost....way too much
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  2. 29th October 2012, 07:51 PM #2
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    Why don't you just rotate them yourself?!

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  3. 29th October 2012, 08:31 PM #3
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    Swapping axle to axle is front to rear, I call it steers to rears,

    or did you mean its just been swapped left to right?
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  4. 30th October 2012, 11:10 AM #4
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    Read the manual -

    Tyre rotation - Front to Rear / Rear to Front...

    Do NOT swap rotational direction (eg. Swap sides of vehicle)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tombie View Post
    Read the manual -

    Tyre rotation - Front to Rear / Rear to Front...

    Do NOT swap rotational direction (eg. Swap sides of vehicle)
    If that is what the manual says, why don't the cars come with a spare wheel for the RHS and another for the LHS?

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  6. 30th October 2012, 11:44 AM #6
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    I rotated mine on my D3 (120000k) and D4 (now 60000k) and never had a problem.. My dealer told me to rotate diagonally, but often they are wrong in what they say!
    So if you go rear to steer where dose the spare come into it?
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  7. 30th October 2012, 11:58 AM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies View Post
    If that is what the manual says, why don't the cars come with a spare wheel for the RHS and another for the LHS?
    Don't be silly, they come with an ambidextrous spare wheel which is why it's now placed in the centreline of the car.


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  8. 30th October 2012, 12:58 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scouse View Post
    Don't be silly, they come with an ambidextrous spare wheel which is why it's now placed in the centreline of the car.


    Those who fit single rear wheel carriers are in a spot of bother come puncture time.

    Good point; I hadn't considered that.
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  9. 30th October 2012, 05:01 PM #9
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    Front to rear rotations are better than no rotation,but if your tyres are not directional i always do it in a way so each tyre ends up in a different place on the vehicle each time,so after 4 rotates each wheel has been on a different spot on the vehicle.

    Not using the spare,i cross the rears over left to right(easy to do if you have a trolly jack) & then swap front to rear(trolly jack & vehicle jack).

    If we do just front to rear,same as axle to axle,(at every10k) on our work vans we get at least 10k less out of each set of tyres than if we rotate them so each wheel ends up in a different place each time,not back in the same place every second rotate.
    Done this for a long time & never had any issues.

    Trying to get a dealer to do this is almost impossible,they seem to think front to rear is good enough,but for some vehicles it is not.
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  10. 30th October 2012, 09:24 PM #10
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    Tyre Rotation

    Two Spares are good for me.

    Spares onto the Rear, Rears on the Front and Crossed and Fronts to Spare every 5000km

    Hopefully yielding even wear over all six tyres over their life
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