Rotating your wheels

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Does anyone still rotate their tyres to even out the wear? If so how often do you do this?
 
I do on the both MG and Land Rover. I even get the tyres switched on the MG to get all the wear out of them, due to the lowered suspension they wear unevenly.

If they are wearing unevenly due to lowering, this seems to me that the geometry needs adjusting.
 
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I am surprised that no one else has suggested that their tyres rotate all the time their car is moving.

Sorry :)
 
I move fronts to rears at the right time so I can replace all 4 at once.

I sometimes rotate but these days most tyres are directional so unless you pay for someone to take them off the wheel and refit you can't rotate from left to right.
 
OG, the tyres are wearing due to the camber setting, they've not been adjusted for road use. They are dropped about 55mm so this is the cause. I just did not get around to getting adjustable arms for it yet. I have a long list of parts wanted! However the car is being reverted back to road spec so the suspension will be adjusted heightwise accordingly and the camber won't be as bad. However I shall still be looking to purchase some new arms, told the wife I had some advisories ;)
 
I guessed as much. As you can see from my car thread, I have been messing around with adjustable wishbones as the car will be dropped as much as possible/practicable.

My chassis guru, Graham Hatherway, says that, due to the very small suspension movement on my car (approx 50mm), we can get away with the chassis end of the wishbone being lower than the wheel end.

Nice move re the avisories :)
 
I have never rotated the tyres and to be honest the geometry is perfectly set up so I should not need too. If the tyres wear down then I replace in a pair or all four at once.
 
Even with geometry perfect though your nearside front will always wear more on its outside edge because of a) the camber of most roads which are lower at the edge than at the middle to aid drainage and b) the fact that we go clockwise round roundabouts.
 
Even with geometry perfect though your nearside front will always wear more on its outside edge because of a) the camber of most roads which are lower at the edge than at the middle to aid drainage and b) the fact that we go clockwise round roundabouts.

Did not even give this a thought, thanks for pointing it out Yugguy ;)
 
Can't say I have ever bothered to rotate. Mind you, the Elan, when last working, had different sizes back to front so rotating wasn't possible anyway. When it is back on the road it will still have different sizes.

The Chevy seems to wear tyres pretty evenly so , again, I can't see the point of the hassle of rotating just to gain, possibly, a few hundred miles wear. Also, by rotating, don't you end up having to buy 4 tyres at a time as opposed to spreading the cost by buying 2 at a time?
 
You can negotiate a better discount on 4 tyres than 2 in most tyre places so although it does hit the wallet hard you are in a strong position to save money.
 
I will only go front/back, keeping the tyres on the same side of the car, thus rotating the same way. Even with assymetric patterns (as opposed to directional patterns) such as the Michelin Primacy HPs on my car I have found problems with vibration if swapping from left to right.

I'm not sure why this should be but a couple of tyre specialists have also agreed with me on this one.

Any ideas folks?
 
I can only imagine that it's due to the tread wearing to suit one direction of rotation. Perhaps if they were swapped about every 1000 miles or so it wouldn't be a problem.
 
I can only imagine that it's due to the tread wearing to suit one direction of rotation. Perhaps if they were swapped about every 1000 miles or so it wouldn't be a problem.

Just about to say that, scrolled down and there you are :)
 
yeah swap front / rear ever few months for even wear. more so with the camber issue on the rears of the octavia that causes heavy wear on the insides.
doing it this way means i can keep an eye on them and get the camber adjusted when nessessary
 

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