Include the Spare in tire Rotation?

[NIsaacs]

The tire thread blocks wear in a slight angle. If the direction is changed you drive them on the "high side" and wear them down again till they are back to the place where they want to be.
We lost easy 20-30% of milage that way.
So we stopped doing that.

On the rear duals we also switched outside right to inside left and vice versa for that reason.

I agree, especially a lug/mud tire. The all season/highway not so much. Generally just changing from front to back will change the torque from push to pull and relevel the tread. Sometimes on a lug tire it will get so ugly, you have to change rotation.

 

[bcbender]

I've always followed the manual for rotation, guess that's why I'm only getting 40-50k miles out of tires....

 

[Cummins2014]

Rotation is rear crossed to front, front straight back to rear and spare replaced with best tire when it's time for a new set

Just the opposite for me fronts crossed to the rear , rears straight forward . But probably accomplishing the same.

 

[bcbender]

Just the opposite for me fronts crossed to the rear , rears straight forward . But probably accomplishing the same.

I do the same and I think that is how its laid out in the OM

 

[lpennock]

Just looked in the 2018 OM
SRW with normal tires. Rear to front. Fronts crossed to Rear
SRW with directional tires. Straight front to rear.
DRW. Fronts crossed to Fronts. Rear outers crossed to Rear outers, Rear inners crossed to rear inners.

 

[Cummins2014]

Just looked in the 2018 OM
SRW with normal tires. Rear to front. Fronts crossed to Rear
SRW with directional tires. Straight front to rear.
DRW. Fronts crossed to Fronts. Rear outers crossed to Rear outers, Rear inners crossed to rear inners.

I googled truck tire rotation ,and it looks like on SRW you can cross the fronts to the rear , backs straight forward ,or you can cross the backs to the front , and the fronts straight back. Both accepted methods .

 

[Jim W]

Since I run a different size tire on my truck for the summer the spare is just a long for the ride, my winter tires are factory size. I do rotate but only twice a year when I switch tires from summer to winter. Each tire is marked with chalk as to what position the tire was removed from. So, I can rotate them when I install them for the next season.

 

[AH64ID]

Frontward cross is for FWD vehicles, and rearward cross is for 4wd/RWD.

I prefer to cross since the right side rear always wears faster. Without a cross the right side will be done a lot sooner, so I get longer and more even life with a rearward cross. You really only get uneven lug wear with alignment issues, so there should be minimal additional wear from changing rotation.

As far as paying for rotations I’ve never bought tires that didn’t include lifetime free rotations, or I’ll do it at home.

 

[Wiredawg]

I've always rotated the spare, when possible. Wife's 2019 Ram 1500 4x4, can't as found out spare is 18" same height as 20s on the truck. I rotate the spare on my 2017 Ram 5500 with the two inboard rears, since they're all steel rims. I considered getting black powder coated steel wheels when I upgraded to 34.4" 19.5s on my 5500 so I could do 7 tire rotations, but this truck is shiney, so went with the 4 Aluminum and 3 steel wheels.

Jeep gets 5 wheel rotation. LRE has different size rears than fronts, so nothing on it.

Best setup I had was 02 Ram 3500 with Travel Supreme triple axle. Ran new Michelins on truck for 3 years, then moved them to TS with new ones on the truck.

Cheers, Ron