Tire rotation

[aldive]

(1) Do you rotate your tires?
(2) If yes, at what interval?
(3) What rotation technique do you use?
(4) If you don't rotate, why not?
(5) How often do you ballance the tires?

 

[RubySlow]

1- Yes
2- Oil change
3- Ballance and rotate by local tire shop

 

[jimbo74]

i rotate about every 5k
i have them rebalanced at that time as well
i have them cross the fronts to the rear and move the rears straight forward

 

[Flandry]

(1) Do you rotate your tires?
(2) If yes, at what interval?
(3) What rotation technique do you use?
(4) If you don't rotate, why not?
(5) How often do you ballance the tires?

1. Yes.
2. Every 10-20K miles or so.
3. Same as Jimbo: cross the fronts to the rear and move the rears straight forward.
4. Though I don't rotate often or on a regular schedule, I do get a 4-wheel alignment every couple of years.
5. Once or twice over the life of the tire

I got 105,000 miles off the last set of tires on my X (Michelins rated at 80K).

 

[Creatve]

(1) Do you rotate your tires?
(2) If yes, at what interval?
(3) What rotation technique do you use?
(4) If you don't rotate, why not?
(5) How often do you ballance the tires?

1 - Yes I rotate them
2 - 5,000 miles
3 - I cross rotate my tires (front tires go to the rear crossed and rear tires go straight to the front)
4 - N/A
5 - 10,000-15,000 miles or sooner if I feel vibration at highway speeds

How about you Aldive?

I got 4 new tires(Dueller A/T Revos) about a year ago(11,900 miles) and its amazing how fast during the first few months the tread lowers, guess thats part of new tires breaking in....at least they are all wearing evenly and losing tread at a much slower rate

 

[aldive]

(1) Do you rotate your tires?
(2) If yes, at what interval?
(3) What rotation technique do you use?
(4) If you don't rotate, why not?
(5) How often do you ballance the tires?

1 yes
2 5k miles
3 Rear tires foward and cross fronts to rear
4 na
5 every 10k

 

[IAmTodd]

1. Yes
2. 5k(oil change)
3. Front to Rear, Rear to Front(Directional tread)
5. Whenever the truck shakes at speed.

 

[dirtbro]

(1) Do you rotate your tires?
(2) If yes, at what interval?
(3) What rotation technique do you use?
(4) If you don't rotate, why not?
(5) How often do you ballance the tires?

1) yes
2) 3k-5k
3) depends on if im running directional or not...usually i just cross them up
5) when it starts to rattle more so than it already does

 

[SuRrEaLNJ]

(1) Do you rotate your tires?
(2) If yes, at what interval?
(3) What rotation technique do you use?
(4) If you don't rotate, why not?
(5) How often do you ballance the tires?

1) Yes
2) evry 3 k (oil change)
3) drop the drives, cross the non
4) i rotate, its stupid not to, you wind up with sinething like the car on my lift right now. 06 ES330, 17K on the odo, both front tires are beyond destroyed
5) Ballance evry time i rotate

 

[toypaseo]

(1) Yes
(2) 5-6k
(3) What ever Discount Tire does
(4) -
(5) Whenever Discount Tire does it

 

[manaen]

(1) Do you rotate your tires?
(2) If yes, at what interval?
(3) What rotation technique do you use?
(4) If you don't rotate, why not?
(5) How often do you ballance the tires?

1) yes
2) once a year
3) depends on the type of tires and the treadwear on the front. If there is feathering on the front tread I do a reverse cross rotation so the feathered edges backwards on the rear tires so LF -> RR, RF -> LR, RR -> RF, LR -> LF. I figured this out on a 90 sport that I had, after rotating the tires and getting a horrible hum from the back ones, so I swapped them from side to side in the rear and it cleared up the problem and I have been doing it ever since. As long as the tread is not directional.
5) usually only when new, unless there is a problem detected

 

[Charlie]

(1) Do you rotate your tires?
(2) If yes, at what interval?
(3) What rotation technique do you use?
(4) If you don't rotate, why not?
(5) How often do you ballance the tires?

1-Yes, every time I drive
2-Usually daily
3-I put it in drive and go
4-Why would you have a car and not rotate the tires?
5-There are four of them, they are stable and don't need to be balanced.

 

[Maniak]

(1) Do you rotate your tires?
(2) If yes, at what interval?
(3) What rotation technique do you use?
(4) If you don't rotate, why not?
(5) How often do you ballance the tires?

On the explorer..

1) Yes
2) about every 6k to 10k
3) Criss cross.. Front to rear.. rears to front while swapping sides
4) sometimes they dont' get rotated for a while.. don't always have time
5) Never.. no wheel weights.. I use air soft pellets in the tires to keep them balanced (once you hit 40 they are well balanced)

 

[manaen]

5) Never.. no wheel weights.. I use air soft pellets in the tires to keep them balanced (once you hit 40 they are well balanced)

Huh? :scratch:

your gonna have to explain that one. wouldn't physics dictate that they would gather in the heaviest side of the tire do to centrifugal force.

 

[Maniak]

Huh? :scratch:

your gonna have to explain that one. wouldn't physics dictate that they would gather in the heaviest side of the tire do to centrifugal force.

Here's a long thread about the real stuff you can buy called equal. I use airsoft pellets becuase they are cheaper

http://www.explorerforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=135766&highlight=equal+tire+balancing

Here is the info from the company that makes it
http://www.imiproducts.com/equal/tire-balancing.aspx

~Mark

 

[manaen]

Here's a long thread about the real stuff you can buy called equal. I use airsoft pellets becuase they are cheaper

~Mark

interesting.. with that little tidbit of information I may just purchase and mount my own tires next time. The only thing that kept me from doing it was the balancing.