How often or ever should the tires be rotated on a c ?

[fordman17]

Just wandering if any of you rotate the tires on your c's or do you ever ?

[BruceMc]

I rotate mine when they get re-balanced.

I have short curved valve stem extenders that I use on the outer duals, it gets moved at rotation time so it is always on the outer duals.
My pattern: same side
Fronts to outer duals
Outer duals to inner duals
inner duals to front.

Granted, rotating outer to inner dual does little, but I like to give every tire a little front-end time.

I have the same short stems on all 6 tires; I have a long necked straight tire gauge that reaches the inner dual. When adding air to the inner dual, I have a short length of hose that I use to remove the cap, then with a hose w/ fittings from a valve stem extender kit, I can add air as necessary.

Simple, inexpensive, and works for me.

I've checked and added a small amount of air to the original spare. It is not weatherchecked so will serve in an emergency. So far we've never had a flat on the road, but I did need to pull the front wheel once when the front-end fell apart in Arches Nat'l park due to incompetent service that "aligned" my front-end. They paid for that service...

As most have said, they never rotate. That works too.

[j-d]

Forgot to say, I did the Spare/Front/Front/Spare rotation about once a year. I wasn't trying as much to equalize wear as to get some use on the Spare.

Some truck tire guys told me that if you rotate an edge-worn tire to the rear duals, the worn edge should be next to the other dual, not on the outer edge of the outer or far inside edge of the inner.

[j-d]

I haven't read it, but "I'm told" that Ford says we don't need to rotate the rear tires.
We have a spare but it's the typical orphan the RV builders provide and doesn't match the others.
When I had a spare that DID match, I rotated Spare >> Left Front. Left Front >> Right Front. Right Front >> Spare. That way, I felt I was "working" the Spare and spreading the front tire wear among three tires. I don't want to have an old unused spare that might fail on age when I finally need it.

[SFVdave]

Because of my Ford E-350 chassis, I tend to wear the outter edges of the front tires after about 10,000 miles. So I rotate them with the inner rear duals as they have the same straight metal valve stem. The outter duals have the Borg u-shaped valve stem and that won't work on the front. I have done the rotation myself in the past as I have 2 jacks, 2 jack stands and an impact wrench with compressor. But since buying my last set of Michelin tires from America's tire store, they give FREE tire rotation and it's much easier. Took them up on it last December.

[rvten]

Had 5 MH's and never rotated tires on any of them.

[Bobbo]

Since you will never wear the tread off, I see no benefit of tire rotations.

[PapPappy]

I think I'd be looking at the wear on the tires.
Being as most "C" MHs don't get a lot of miles on them, and the fact that most of the those miles are probably highway...you will probably be having the tires replace with age, before you need to rotate for wear.

What does the owners manual say about rotating the tires?
What does it say in your daily driver? I'm guessing that it's going to be something like 15-20K miles, which in a "C" may be 3-5 years.

[TyroneandGladys]

I will replace my tires because of age long before there is any need to replace because of tread wear so I do not rotate tires on the RV

[fordman17]

Thanks,my new ones after a year and 8,000 miles look to be wearing even so will just keep an eye on them.

[dennislanier]

I can't think of any practical way to do this. In my case, and probably in most others, you would have to take the MH to an RV repair facility and have them dismount the wheels and also remove the tires from the rims, then switch them out. Since the front and rear wheels are different, I can't see any other way to do it. Seems like it would be very expensive and probably not worth the trouble.

[Dakzuki]

Nope. Mine are wearing pretty uniformly so they'll all be ready for replacement when the time comes.

If one end of the RV wears out first (like the front), you can just replace them and do the rears when their time comes. The adage about replacing all tires at once applies to cars but not so much for RVs.

Lots of folks' tires age out before they wear out anyway.

[tatest]

The purpose of rotation is to try to compensate for differences in wear at different positions, so that you can replace all tires at the same time, as a matched set. Uneven wear is particularly a problem with front wheel drive cars that are also heavy, so rotation pattern is front to back ( no crossing, for radials, some can handle it, others don't).

On a dually two axle truck, you might rotate inner dual one side with outer on other, or inner dual to same side front, or front with opposite side outer, and still avoid reversing rotation. Ford recommends only rotating fronts with spare, not worrying about rotation direction, to include the spare in the wear set, to replace those three tires at the same time.

I've watched for unusual or uneven wear on my tires, but in 30,000 miles, over six years, there was little wear at all before the tires needed replacement for age.

Interval? Oil change interval is roughly 5000 miles, I would consider doubling that on tire rotation, if doing it. Maybe longer, you could be looking at 50,000 to 80,000 miles of wear, before replacing because of tread wear.

[dicknellen]

I have heard as long as they are wearing evenly, leave them alone and that is what I do. Regards, Dick

[Home_Skillet]

I don't.
I have in tire TPMS sensors that are position sensative.