Do you rotate your tyres?
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Gilly said:
It isnt for economy reasons really though, the reason why it can be good is that when you are due for a tyre change, you can replace all 4 and have a fresh set rather than be stuck in the situation of only ever having 2 properly decent tyres at once...
I would do it but cannot as my rear tyres are wider than the fronts.
Of course I do. How else does the car move if its tyres dont rotate? Bwuahahahahahaha!!!
But serisouly, I dont. Friend of mine once swapped his rear tyres with hsi fronts because the fronts were a lot balder. Only a temporary solution of course.
But serisouly, I dont. Friend of mine once swapped his rear tyres with hsi fronts because the fronts were a lot balder. Only a temporary solution of course.
I had to get a set of tyres swapped off the car and onto a different set of alloys. I took the opportunity to swap them on each axle (they are directional) as I run a fair amount of negative camber which wears the inner edges faster.
I'm in this situation at the moment, my fronts are starting to get low whilst the rears are looking as fresh as the day they went on.
On the one hand I could swap them over, meaning the low tyres will last longer if they are on the back and the nice new looking rears will move to the front and it'll be their turn to take a hammering, but as Gilly says this will require me ot replace all 4 when they do all wear out.
Or I could leave the fronts to wear out, replace those and not touch the backs as they will happily sit there for many many more miles.
On the one hand I could swap them over, meaning the low tyres will last longer if they are on the back and the nice new looking rears will move to the front and it'll be their turn to take a hammering, but as Gilly says this will require me ot replace all 4 when they do all wear out.
Or I could leave the fronts to wear out, replace those and not touch the backs as they will happily sit there for many many more miles.
Only in the sense that I put the newest tyres on the back...
Fronts wear quicker, when I bought new ones I put them on the back and moved the others to the front. Fronts needs changing soon so I'll probably put new ones on the back and the current backs on the front (if that makes sense...)
When pushing hard I like to know that the backend is as stuck as possible
Fronts wear quicker, when I bought new ones I put them on the back and moved the others to the front. Fronts needs changing soon so I'll probably put new ones on the back and the current backs on the front (if that makes sense...)
When pushing hard I like to know that the backend is as stuck as possible
TripleT said:Only in the sense that I put the newest tyres on the back...
Fronts wear quicker, when I bought new ones I put them on the back and moved the others to the front. Fronts needs changing soon so I'll probably put new ones on the back and the current backs on the front (if that makes sense...)
When pushing hard I like to know that the backend is as stuck as possible
although theoretically the part worn tyres you're moving from the back will provide better grip initially (until the new ones are a little worn) than the fresh ones you've just stuck on the back
Ev0 said:although theoretically the part worn tyres you're moving from the back will provide better grip initially (until the new ones are a little worn) than the fresh ones you've just stuck on the back
Very true! When they first go on she does like to wag her tail a bit
But you can soon scrub off that nasty first layer of rubber 