Thread: Rotating Tires

Personally my tire rotate each time I drive but if you are going to do it by the book (and in my opinion if you keep a good wheel alignment you shouldnt really need to rotate tyres) you should move the spare to rear left, rear left to front right, rear right to front left and front left to rear right.

Now the reasoning around this for those that will argue the point is that the spare will have slightly taller rubber on it so you put it to the lower side of the camber in the road to assist in keeping the vehical tracking in a straight line....................or some crap like that.

Chuck it on when you get a flat and when they are worn out replace them, you should get a few years out of them so if you take about $8 per week out of you wages into a money box, you should have enough to buy a new set when they are worn out.

For what its worth, I run 2 spares and just move spare->rear->front->spare. Its a good way of getting consistent tyre wear.

Originally Posted by mcrover

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(and in my opinion if you keep a good wheel alignment you shouldnt really need to rotate tyres)
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You do with aggressively treaded tyres, they heel and toe something terribly, regardless of alignment.

BTW, I was always taught not to switch rotation direction on radials, but no ones seems to bother about this these days........

FWIW, to maximise life on the numerous sets of BFG MT's I've had, I get my tyre bloke to swap them on the rims, too, at a bit over halfway into their life, so they run in the same direction but on the opposite side of the vehicle. It offsets the camber/toe out/heel and toe wear they accumulate.

thanks for the info.
Did the swapping around last night, boy are they heavy.
Good thing I did cause the wheel nuts seemed pretty loose for my liking.

I switch a lot between tyres and just have no rotational plan. Tyre set come off and put in a random pile, and the random pile is put back on in a random order. The tyres have all worn really well and evenly using this precise method.

Originally Posted by Slunnie

I switch a lot between tyres and just have no rotational plan. Tyre set come off and put in a random pile, and the random pile is put back on in a random order. The tyres have all worn really well and evenly using this precise method.

Same here . I did try to keep track what came off where with chalk marks, but failed miserably. I guess by law of averages they will be unlikely to always go back on the same corner. ( I hope). But like you the tyres all seem to be wearing nice and evenly.

This isn't helping answer the original question at all, of course.

Slunnie isn't about time you fixed your sig

bottom right is what you want.