Tire Rotation Not Needed?

Quote JRscooby:
I inspect my tires, and put them back where I got them. If a tire is wearing unusually I go to truck and find out why. If you just rotate, and something is causing a tire to where, it will wear all the tires. And likely you will not see the problem as soon.
When I was young, I wore rear tires faster. Now, the front wears a little faster than rear. When I need to replace tires, I buy 2 at a time. If I had 4X4 I would act different.

Tires just work differently in different positions. If your tires are wearing perfectly flat across the tread without any rotation, they must be some pretty amazing truck tires. I suppose it's possible with a rib tire or something, but it's certainly not likely.

I agree with you JRscooby, although I doubt anyone else will. Radial belted tires like to stay where they are first installed and broke in. 2nd, If a vehicle has an alignment or some other type of wear problem, fix the problem, don't just rotate the tires around thinking everything is fine.

JRscooby wrote:

twodownzero wrote:


If you want your tires feathered and riding like **** for the last few years you own them, this sounds like a wonderful way to accomplish that. Find me a person who claims their tires all wear evenly regardless of position and I'll show you a liar.

I inspect my tires, and put them back where I got them. If a tire is wearing unusually I go to truck and find out why. If you just rotate, and something is causing a tire to where, it will wear all the tires. And likely you will not see the problem as soon.
When I was young, I wore rear tires faster. Now, the front wears a little faster than rear. When I need to replace tires, I buy 2 at a time. If I had 4X4 I would act different.

Tires just work differently in different positions. If your tires are wearing perfectly flat across the tread without any rotation, they must be some pretty amazing truck tires. I suppose it's possible with a rib tire or something, but it's certainly not likely.

twodownzero wrote:


If you want your tires feathered and riding like **** for the last few years you own them, this sounds like a wonderful way to accomplish that. Find me a person who claims their tires all wear evenly regardless of position and I'll show you a liar.

I inspect my tires, and put them back where I got them. If a tire is wearing unusually I go to truck and find out why. If you just rotate, and something is causing a tire to where, it will wear all the tires. And likely you will not see the problem as soon.
When I was young, I wore rear tires faster. Now, the front wears a little faster than rear. When I need to replace tires, I buy 2 at a time. If I had 4X4 I would act different.

Cummins12V98 wrote:
My question is why are the fronts wearing faster? Under inflation?

Chances are they have already been rotated. Go by seasons that hot summer heat eats rubber.

I say rotate by tread depth not mileage.

Silly me, I thought it might also have something to do with safety

opnspaces wrote:

But I also remember a service writer friend who calculated that paying an half labor (say $50) for a tire rotation every 5,000 miles would cost a set of new tires by 60,000 miles. $50 times 12 services = $600 So it's possibly cheaper to just never rotate the tires and save the money for the replacements.

If you want your tires feathered and riding like **** for the last few years you own them, this sounds like a wonderful way to accomplish that. Find me a person who claims their tires all wear evenly regardless of position and I'll show you a liar.

My question is why are the fronts wearing faster? Under inflation?

97chevor wrote:

jfkmk wrote:

97chevor wrote:
And as a tire wears down the tread depth doesn't wear as fast.

:h
Not sure what you mean by this. Tread depth is how you measure tread wear, no?

As an aside, if you were buying only two tires, you'd always put them in the rear. However, at only a 1/32" difference, I'd insist on rotsting them.

I mean for tires to last longer. The intervals between rotations should become longer as the tire looses tread depth. Because the tire doesn't not loose depth as fast as it did when new.

Ah, gotcha! Thanks, I was certainly misreading what you posted.

jfkmk wrote:

97chevor wrote:
And as a tire wears down the tread depth doesn't wear as fast.

:h
Not sure what you mean by this. Tread depth is how you measure tread wear, no?

As an aside, if you were buying only two tires, you'd always put them in the rear. However, at only a 1/32" difference, I'd insist on rotsting them.

97chevor is saying that the wear rate isn't linear.

jfkmk wrote:

97chevor wrote:
And as a tire wears down the tread depth doesn't wear as fast.

:h
Not sure what you mean by this. Tread depth is how you measure tread wear, no?

As an aside, if you were buying only two tires, you'd always put them in the rear. However, at only a 1/32" difference, I'd insist on rotsting them.

I mean for tires to last longer. The intervals between rotations should become longer as the tire looses tread depth. Because the tire doesn't not loose depth as fast as it did when new.