Front or rear tires?

[Jeff00000168]

Which set of tires wear out faster? The front or the rear? I just bought new tires for the front about 6 weeks ago and I'm about to buy 2 more for the reaer and I was wonderin if I should put the new ones in front and put the slightly used ones in the rear.

Thanks in advance!

 

[schmoken]

The fronts wear faster due to the steering angles and stress. But they should wear fairly evenly IF you are rotating your tires...

 

[FROADER]

Yes you should always put the newer tires on the front, then like schok said regularly rotate them.

 

[jimbo74]

newer tires on the steering wheels

rotate them about every 5000 miles......


as far as wear goes, it varies due t odifferent circumstances, since my truck is lifted and im too lazy to fix my camber, it is causing wear on the edges, but i drive like a maniac, and my rear tires go bald way faster from excessive tire spinning

 

[SkanlaxJMO]

if you do burnouts then the rears will wear faster but if you drive moderatly they should wear at the same rate if you are rotating them properly.

 

[Jeff00000168]

Thanks for the info!

 

[extremexplorer]

ive got a question. whats the proper rotation cycle?

 

[Larry2010]

front to back one time ... next time side to side ... then repeat

this gets each tire on all 4 corners equally

 

[Yomie]

The preffered method is to cross the non-drive tires, in our case cross the fronts bring the rears straight forward every 6000 miles

 

[jp450]

I have read, albeit a many years ago, not to change the rotation of radial tires. Like putting the tires from the right to the left. I had read that this is because once the belts in a radial tire wear in and then when you change the rotation of them the belts can break. Any comments? I have always just rotated front to back.

 

[Larry2010]

The preffered method is to cross the non-drive tires, in our case cross the fronts bring the rears straight forward every 6000 miles

Actually, I can see some advantage to your method because it's always the same swap ... never have to remember what you did last time.

 

[whoathere]

I have read, albeit a many years ago, not to change the rotation of radial tires. Like putting the tires from the right to the left. I had read that this is because once the belts in a radial tire wear in and then when you change the rotation of them the belts can break. Any comments? I have always just rotated front to back.

Thats the same way I have always done it too...My dad told me that like 10 years ago when I was watching him rotate tires. I don't think he gave any reason why not to, but he said never switch sides

 

[mwking]

Not crossing radial tires is something that goes way back to when they first became popular. I was told at the time that the belts gave a little when rotating one way, and if you reversed them the extra give would cause the belts to work back and forth possibly causing a failure. Since then tire design has come a long way and I am told that this is not a concern anymore, but am still in the habit of switching front to back.

 

[Larry2010]

Why Rotate?

I've always wondered if this was really necessary, so when I bought my Sport 3 years ago I planned on replacing the tires since they were about half gone and decided to not worry about the Goodyear Wranglers that were on it. Since then, I put 45,000 miles on it and never rotated the tires. I only made a average effort to keep tires properly inflated and when I finally replaced them last week I couldn't see or measure any difference from one tire to the other!

For obvious reasons no dealer or manufacturer is ever going to say you don't have to rotate tires, but now I have to wonder if it not just one of those carryover things that no longer have a real need.

Opinions?

 

[ap81590]

I've always heard to cross the ones that push/pull the vehicle. So on an Explorer, the right rear would go to the left front, the left rear would go to the right front and then you would bring the two fronts straight back. If you have directional tires, obviously they must stay on the same side of the car, but you can swap out front with rear.

 

[jp450]

I've always wondered if this was really necessary, so when I bought my Sport 3 years ago I planned on replacing the tires since they were about half gone and decided to not worry about the Goodyear Wranglers that were on it. Since then, I put 45,000 miles on it and never rotated the tires. I only made a average effort to keep tires properly inflated and when I finally replaced them last week I couldn't see or measure any difference from one tire to the other!

For obvious reasons no dealer or manufacturer is ever going to say you don't have to rotate tires, but now I have to wonder if it not just one of those carryover things that no longer have a real need.

Opinions?

I have done the same thing with my sport in the past. Gone 60K mi without rotating and wihtout problems. (60K +/- on OEM Firestone Wilderness and 60K +/- on Goodyear Wrangler RT/S) I rotated my LTX M/S's a few weeks ago cuz the front right was cupping and making a bunch of noise that was bothering me. I need to get the camber done but many a shop says that it can't be done. I know it can... I will just wait till it goes to the dealership and have them do it...

 

[Ford_Racing_Guy]

a big hoax.


I rotate mine all different ways and never had any problems

Bridgestone/Firestone suggests crossing the non-drive tires and putting the drive tires straight forward or backward every 6000 to 7000 miles.