Do you rotate your tires?

[toddjb122]

Front to rear or side to side?

I have a new set of Pirellis which have about 8000 miles on them. Wasn't sure if I should start out a new set with regular rotations or just leave them in place. I have heard recommendations from both camps regarding the LR3.

Thanks!

 

[CMGRover]

I do front to rear.... because I only have 2 jack stands at the moment...

 

[JackMac]

Todd,

See below for standard 4 wheel rotation patterns. I prefer "A".

Not sure why people would not recommend regular tire rotations, unless they are concerned about the cost/benefit. My shop does them for free, so this not an issue.

My LR3 has a 5 wheel rotation pattern (have the HD package), performed every 5K miles since new.

 

[Trynian]

I do the A every 5k. Mostly because I have never been able to really get a perfect alignment and always seem to get slight but funky tire ware. I know that due to my heavy duty off-road activities it is probably not possible to keep a good alignment for any length of time and I usually destroy my tires long before I would ware them out anyway.

Option A at least keeps them all warring relatively the same. As long as the vehicle is driving striaght I do not bother much with alignments anymore.

 

[merrion13]

I do option A every 5-6k as well; I've had good even wear on both my LR3 and Disco2 sticking to this routine so it works for me.

 

[huelsmma]

Oh crap....ive been rotating my tires every 5k miles but for some reason i was told front to back, back to front on same side. Guess i should reconsider this lol

 

[roverman]

Oh crap....ive been rotating my tires every 5k miles but for some reason i was told front to back, back to front on same side. Guess i should reconsider this lol

I wouldn't worry too much about it. With unidirectional, like my snow tires, that's all you can do. And they still look good after 4 winters - uniform wear. I do "front to back" with my regular tires too, just because it's easier for me. I use a fork lift to lift the truck and I can only do one side at a time. This is sort of like the oil thread, don't sweat it, everything will just fine!

 

[ncburch22]

I haven't done a rotation yet on my Kelly Safari TSR's, but I'm due for one sooner than later. I'll probably do B mainly because of the tire wear pattern.

 

[toddjb122]

Thanks!

 

[CMGRover]

On mine, with the old set of tires (which rarely got rotated) side to side wear was the same, it was front to back that differed.