Importance of tyre rotation

[AussieAub]

Was just browsing on the web, curious to get opinions on tyre rotation on modern cars and 4WD's in particular when I came across this most descriptive article.

A great example of why not to drink before compiling a written piece of work!
Just had to share:
Importance of Car Tyre Rotation



Cheers,

[MickS]

That's funny. Might have been translated into enGrish from gibberish

[Celtoid]

Reads like one of those Nigerian eMail Scams...

[Redback]

Funny as

It is important for all cars but generally for front-turn-drive models wherein the front car tyres do a lot of work. In such car models, chairs on all the might counting the braking might, steering brawn, and the major might on the front axles tyres. However, the rear hinge tyres collect solely the braking might. This outcome in greatly nearer carry time of the front tyres, chief to meager treatment and compact toehold.

[ramblingboy42]

cant rotate mine or some will be running backwards

[wrinklearthur]

Hi All

Today I asked at the tyre place, about rotating my five wheels to get the best wear from my tyres on the D1.
The kid, told me "Oh, that's old fashion, we don't do that any more"!


I'm going to do the B******** B******* things myself

Cheers Arthur

[numpty]

I only change front/rear on the same side. Dont like the idea of them rotating backwards by doing side to side.

Have over 100000 k's on the current tyres with no dramas, so cant be all bad.

[Sully]

If you're going to rotate your tyres, the rule of thumb for a 4x4/AWD is as follows:

Front right and left directly back to rear right and left.
Rear right to front left.
Rear left to front right.

Of course, this gets blown out of the window if your tyres have directional tread. In this case, just swap fronts for back.

[wrinklearthur]

Hi All

The plan for our D1 is;

Spare is same size and tread pattern as the on road tyres therefore.
Spare goes to Front Left,
Front Left to Front Right,
Front Right to Rear Left,
Rear Left to Rear Right,
Rear Right becomes the Spare.

Tyre pressures are adjusted so the rears are 4 PSI greater than front.

The spare ( which had a puncture repaired recently ) then will be checked for balance at another tyre place run by a mate who is a long time professional tyre bloke, definately not by the Kid at the big place in town!

Cheers Arthur

[popemobile]

Hi All

Today I asked at the tyre place, about rotating my five wheels to get the best wear from my tyres on the D1.
The kid, told me "Oh, that's old fashion, we don't do that any more"!


I'm going to do the B******** B******* things myself

Cheers Arthur

Best way to achieve best wear is to rotate them gently. Keep off the loud pedal, and keep of the stop pedal

Sorry, couldnt help myself....

More seriously, Apparently rotating modern radials (particularly large 4x4 ones) in a manner that causes them to change direction of rotation upsets carcass biasing as the tyre ages and settles with use. Apparently this can cause the carcass to delaminate prematurely, usually resulting in tyre bulging or more serious failure.

According to reputed tyre reps etc you should only rotate front to rear not side to side.

Having said this, many ignore this with minimal consequence, and sometimes wear on tyres almost mandates ignoring this. The other thing i have noticed is the biased wear toward the drive edge of each block on an aggressive offroad tyre. If you change the direction of rotation expect accelerated wear till things settle and increased noise due to the blocks worn at an angle and riding on high spots till they wear off.