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Gray_Fox
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May 31, 2016

tire rotation

Should you rotate tires on a 5th/W and at what mileage should it be done?

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  • I rotate my TT tires once a year when I do my annual wheel inspection. We average 4-6 thousand miles per camping season.

    I rotate ours because I have never had a trail where the four wheels were in perfect alignment. Plus road crowns, and shoulder debris and roughness can cause uneven tire wear. That way I get all tires to wear equally and 5-6 years of service from a set of tires.

    If I ever had severe abnormal tire wear I would determine cause and get the issue corrected. Never had that problem yet.

    Everyone has their own theory whether to rotate trailer tires or not and how often. :@
  • Have never rotated. Something over 22,000 miles on current tires and no detectable wear difference in any of them. Since there is no steer axle, and the axles are only about 4' apart, the wear pattern should be about the same across all tires on a trailer.
  • We take our FW to get our tires inspected by the business that we originally purchased them from and they don't rotate them. They said it is because they are not under the same use and load as daily drivers or regular tires. What they do is take them off, inspect them, do a free spin test to check for the tire wearing or being uneven. The Free Spin Test is recommended by the Tire Guy - Roger Marble.
  • Not sure what the "official" word is on this. We have never rotated tires on any of our trailers.
    We do have them balanced when we replaced them.

    Watch for any unusual or uneven wear.