3500 owners, do you rotate your tires?

[brobeson]

I have heard 2 schools of though on tire rotation of tires on the 3500.



1) rotate as per owners manual. If there is a small propblem it will rotate the good tires into the bad location, hiding any real proplem.



2) Do not rotate at all, if a prplem area arises, fix then just replace the needed tires.



What do you do?



Bob



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[Chad Sheets]

I do at every oil change. Do the wifes blazer that way also.

 

[illflem]

You need one more answer on your poll, rotating a 3500 isn't worth the hassle. On a dually my experience has been that the tires all wear about the same, it's just not worth the hassle to rotate them. I rotate my 2500 at every oil change.

 

[moparguy]

I've aways rotated, but I may run the set I just installed without rotating, just to test the non-rotate theory.



As an aside, one of those take it for what it's worth things. Bought the wife a new horse trailer, we pull about 2k per year. It has 5 new Uniroyal Larado 235-85-16 E tires, my truck needs tires. So for $200 I buy one new Uniroyal, have the tire shop swap em all around. Every thing is hunky- dorey. NOTTTTTT on your life.



This was a good deal for me for about a week. My advise is don't even think about saving a few bucks this way.







Ronnie

 

[CGoyette]

on a real truck (4 feet of rubber in the back) everything is bigger heavier and if it gets out of alinement it shows up fast. However since you have to buy 6 (my case michelins) its expensive just to wait and see if you have a problem.



what I do is a visual inspection on all six tires on the vehicle every 5000 miles. I also use a staight edge to see if I get any uneven wear.

I will rotate at 15000 and balance. next inspection I will do it only at 10 k now no problems.



I also have a drawing of where the tire wts are so I can see if any fell off since the last inspection... . more comon than you think. Just make a drawing stick it in the glove box... . use the valve stem as a referance point.

 

[willyslover]

I rotate but don't bother with spare. . it is a spare for life. .

I eat up the out side edges of my tires by the driving style [slot car] and the mountains I live in . . so I have to or much lower mileage

If I drove only flat land prolly would not rotate.

 

[QRTRHRS]

I rotate mine once a year wether they need it or not. While I only have had my truck three years, it appears with my habits/useage, two years is about max.

 

[MikeJ]

I rotate my tires every oil change (usually from 6000 to 8000 miles) I got about 82,000 miles out of my factory Goodyear's, 156,000 miles out of my 1st set of Michelin's, 128,000 miles out of my 2nd set of Michelin's and about 32,000 miles so far out of this set with hardly any wear. I don't believe I could have got that kind of mileage without rotating and keeping up with the tire pressure.

Just my opinion

 

[Briar Hopper]

It's a terrible pain to find a competent tire store to rotate these tires, I ended up doing it myself twice. Only got 59K miles out of the original Michelins. Bought 5, and used the spare as a new sixth tire, saved a couple hundred that way.

On a good note, I do have a tire store, now, that knows to oil the lug nuts and to use a torque wrench when re-mounting my wheels. I check on the truck while they're doing it, though, instead of sitting blindly in the waiting room.

 

[MCummings]

Rotate?? What's that mean,, ?



I rotate my tires daily Diesel smoke, and White tire smoke usually follows. .



I just replace tires as neede,, I don't like rotating, ONE, It's a pain in the Butt, and TWO, I wear out tires to fast to rotate,, I'd have to rotate every 500 miles. To keep from having different sizes on the duals.



Right now I have about 30K old tires on the rear, and about 5K old tires on the front. So my rear are about 75% worn, and the fronts,, less than 15%.



MerrickNJr