Rioja

Has anyone heard about the concept of "tire rotation"?

I had been reading up about it online recently but never seen anyone do it in reality. It's where the rear tires and front tires are switched out periodically in the interest of wheel safety.

Something to do with rear tires/ front tires wearing out differently as they are used differently by the car.

Fabian

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Yeah. Front driver switches with rear passenger.
Front passenger switches with rear driver.
This is assuming they're not directional tires. If they are, you simply swap the same side front to back.



But this is an F body forum. Most of us never rotate because we have staggered or mismatched combos. I have 315s out back, 275s in the front and they're also directional. So no, they can never be rotated.

leadfoot4

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"In the interest of safety"??

No, it's done with the idea of evening out wear, between the front and rear tires......as long as they're the same size, and as long as the wheels are the same, too.

M4N14C

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The advantages of a square setup. I rotate my 315 tires every time I do an oil change. 5000 street+track miles on a sub 100TW tire and they're all hardly worn.

Rioja

Hey Leadfoot, should it be done something like this:

https://www.greasemonkeydirect.com/b...nd-tyre-safety

Front with rear. In either orientation. Switch out passenger side rear with passenger side front... or cross them over diagonally.
Looks like a good idea for evening out wear. I'm on it!

JD_AMG

Are you new to cars? This is a common maintenance thing for most cars like oil changes, except less frequently.

leadfoot4

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First of all, you have to understand that some tread patterns are "directional", therefore they can't be moved to the opposite sides of the car. Secondly, and this is my personal $0.02 worth, I've been a car enthusiast for close to 50 years, and sold custom wheels/tires part time, for a number of years in the mid-70s through the mid-80s. Back then, radials were new to the marketplace, and had some "quirks", one of them being that they sometime developed a "pattern" based on their directional rotation.

Therefore these tires didn't like to be swapped side to side, reversing their direction of rotation (their tread patterns were such that the rotation didn't matter). Based on this, I've always kept tires on the same side of the car, and just move them front to rear....

rudytirerack

Modern Radial Tires can be rotated without issues. Even directional tires run the wrong direction won't hurt the tire but does channel more water into it so you would not want to do it on a safety stand point. Here is some tech information from our website.

https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiret....jsp?techid=43