Tire Rotation??

[craiggo]

Wondering how you all rotate your tires? Front to back/back to front or do you cross them?



I'm at 10k and they've been rotated F-B/B-F only at the dealer (according to the manual, this is correct). However, I've always felt I got better wear when going front to back and then crossing when moving the backs to the front.



I know this may be old school so I'm tapping into this resource for some wisdom.



Thoughts?



Thank you.

 

[amsoilman]

Wondering how you all rotate your tires? Front to back/back to front or do you cross them?



I'm at 10k and they've been rotated F-B/B-F only at the dealer (according to the manual, this is correct). However, I've always felt I got better wear when going front to back and then crossing when moving the backs to the front.



I know this may be old school so I'm tapping into this resource for some wisdom.



Thoughts?



Thank you. [/QUOT

I change mine around like you; FRONT to BACK and crossing the backs to the front. Only have 13,800 miles, and have rotated once at 8,000 miles

 

[rtbctd]

I cross mine when going to the rear,that way the direction changes on the rear wheels. I move the rears straight forward

 

[HBarlow]

I buy my tires from SAM's Club, have for years. The way I rotate my tires is drive up near the Tire and Battery area every 7,500 or 8k miles, walk in and drop my keys on the counter and tell the tire guys who are all my friends now I want a tire rotation and balance. I wander around in the store for awhile, maybe do a little shopping, and return after 30 minutes or so.

It works well every time in all weather. Never get cold, wet, or my hands dirty.

 

[Jim W]

I used to rotate my own tires like the manual suggest every 5,000 miles. I was able to achieve 41,750 miles on the factory installed tires. I might have been able to get 45,000 out of them, but the Michelin tires I wanted were on sale. Discount Tires now rotates and balance them every rotation at 6,000 miles.

You may know this already but the rear tires are very very difficult to get off. I use to lay under the truck and kick the tires off the hubs to break them lose. After the first rotation, I put a light coat of anti-size on the rim to allow the tires to be removed some what easier than when the factory installed the tires.

Jim W.

 

[HBarlow]

I got about 65k miles on my OEM Generals on my '06 dually and on my ccurrent truck. Around 110k on Michelins.

 

[GOTSOOT]

got 67,000 miles like this : take inside to outside,same sidetake outside to opposite front and that front to inside opposite rear. make any sense?works in my mind

 

[Alan Reagan]

I cross mine when going to the rear,that way the direction changes on the rear wheels. I move the rears straight forward

That's how I do it.

 

[craiggo]

Ok, I'm going to Chris-Cross. Though the SAM's club is not an option as we don't have any around here and Costco only rotates tires bought with them (not even on cars bought through them).

 

[SearsK]

I got about 65k miles on my OEM Generals on my '06 dually and on my ccurrent truck. Around 110k on Michelins.

How did you rotate your tires ?

 

[HBarlow]

As I wrote in post # 4 above, I don't. I take the truck to SAM's Club and they provide free rotation and balance every 7. 5 to 8k miles. I don't know what pattern they follow.

 

[Alan Reagan]

On my 2005 2WD, I bought new tires at 105,000 and I had just about reached the wear bar. Those were the Michelins A/Ts.



I rotated the tires every 5K miles. I use the cross method because there will always be that little wear edge on the outside starting at about 5K.



I don't have a feel for how my 4wd wear is going to be yet. So far, no problems at 17K miles. I do my Cardan joint lube when I rotate so that I can turn the shaft.

 

[CRath]

I rotated the tires on my 2011 DRW Longhorn the other day and answered a question I had about the factory aluminum wheels. The aluminum wheels are not interchangeable front to rear as the non-visable side is not polished... still has deep machine grooves, and the inside duals of course are steel wheels. For owners of a 2011 DRW truck with factory Alcoa aluminum wheels the rotation pattern is side to side only... no front to rear or inside dual to outside dual... unless you demount the tire. The owners manual of course isn't up to date to reflect this. Hope this answers a few questions out there.

 

[RonD]

On my 2012 DRW, they have the Alcoa wheels, rotation would involve dismounting the tires, I think I will go against my normal routine and just forget rotation, when the fronts wear out, and I suspect they will go first, new fronts only

 

[HBarlow]

Since the owner of a new 2012 with aluminum wheels would almost certainly have to pay a tire shop to dismount and rotate the tires and the tire monkeys would almost certainly damage the aluminum wheels in doing so it would be pretty costly to have them rotated with a normal interval making the savings resulting from increased service life useless.

I would not rotate either if I owned a new '12 with aluminum wheels.

 

[Alan Reagan]

On the DRW trucks, isn't the recommendation side to side on the front?



When I had a DRW, I did the inside forward, outside went to the inside and crossed the fronts to the rear outsides.



Bad news on the aluminum wheels with rotation.

 

[LarryM]

CRATH is spot on about the new aluminum wheels. I used to rotate the tires on my Y2K dually as the manual stated, only I did it every 5-6,000 miles and averaged 65 to 70,000 miles in the tires. My new truck has the Alcoa wheels, so I think it best to swap both front and rears side to side, that way the opposite side of the tread is bearing on the road crown and they are rotating in the other direction, maybe this is futile, time will tell.

 

[SearsK]

As I wrote in post # 4 above, I don't. I take the truck to SAM's Club and they provide free rotation and balance every 7. 5 to 8k miles. I don't know what pattern they follow.

I think I would want to know