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How often do you do it and why?
I was told it needed to be done every 6000 miles to make sure the tread wear is even.Malum Prohibitum said:How often do you do it and why?
some of my cars have different sized tires so they dont get rotated... for example my 91 GT Mustang has 10.5 inch rear rims while the front uses a 9 inch rim...you rotate your tires because when you turn etc the tire isnt flat it angles witht he turns and wears the outer or inner edge of the tire so you swap them around so they will wear in a different spot etcMalum Prohibitum said:How often do you do it and why?
Front wheel drive does tend to eat the front tires but the rear tires tend to get chopped/cupped from lack of weight and they actually bounce going down the road.samman23 said:I do them every 6k. if one tire or two tires to wears unevenly compared to the others, rotating the tire spreads the wear around so that they are all equal. FWD tends to eat front tires and RWD tends to eat rear tires. Rotating them helps even it out so that all your tires get replaced at once instead of one or two at a time.
Very well put. Also when I was in school(General Motors school) they told us best tires on front to help with steering in bad weather Western Auto also used to go by that. Tire stores like tires plus and tire kingdom say the opposite.Adam5 said:There are two schools of thought on having better tires on the front or rear.
School one is that the front do 100% of the steering and 60-80% of the braking while the rears just roll along, so you want the best tires there for safety on rain slickened roads.
School two is that if you have good tires on the front and bad tires on the rear, your vehicle could spin, due to the rears sliding while sliding on rain slickened roads, so you want the better tires on the rear to prevent this.
Tire manufactures and dealers argue this all day long and get nowhere, just like arguing over calibers and whether chili should have beans.
To each his own.
What's far more important than rotation and what tires are where, is maintaining proper inflation according to the vehicle manufactures specs (unless tire sizes have been altered), and periodic inspection of the tires for signs of abnormal wear, damage or dry rotting. Another important safety factor is that if you have directional tires, that they are installed in a manner that causes them to rotate in the proper direction.
Any AWD and 4WD if you engage the 4WD is sensitive and can damage something in the transfer case(Subaru and Mitsubishi(I own a Lancer Evolution VIII) call them center differentials) especially.Fallschirmjäger said:Subaru AWD and synthetic oil.
I rotate front to rear only, and every oil change witch is every 5-7,000 miles. Subaru's are sensitive to having all tires the same rolling diameter with their AWD transmissions.
Yes, and you can add a little negative camber to offset that tendency. Adjust to suit (assuming the inflation is sufficient and the toe-in isn't excessive).ed4 said:Also you can get cornering wear(edges of outside front tires) from cornering too fast the tire rolls under itself and rides on the very edge. Alignment won't fix cornering wear.
It just depends on whether you want to hit something with the front of your car or the side of your car. :lol:Adam5 said:There are two schools of thought on having better tires on the front or rear.
School one is that the front do 100% of the steering and 60-80% of the braking while the rears just roll along, so you want the best tires there for safety on rain slickened roads.
School two is that if you have good tires on the front and bad tires on the rear, your vehicle could spin, due to the rears sliding while sliding on rain slickened roads, so you want the better tires on the rear to prevent this.
Tire manufactures and dealers argue this all day long and get nowhere, just like arguing over calibers and whether chili should have beans.
To each his own.