Jotosuds17

i'm following the honda manual guidelines, and they say every 10,000, but i know people do it more often.

i have 16,000 miles, and i've rotated once... should i do it more often?

maxsin

I say every 6,000. Just to make sure that the condition of the tires are ok. Check for nails and such.

armieo

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My tires have these arrows on them saying that they can only spin in a certain direction to increase ground rainwater dispersing efficiency. Therefore, I can only rotate the tires from each side from front to back, but not from one side to the other.

Zzyzx

as long as they arn't Asymmetrical a tire shop can rotate the tires on the wheels, and give you a bit more tread life.

armieo

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And that costs money right?

And then they scratch ur rims and are like. "Uh.. we didn't do that."

Or: "Uh.. we're not liable."

alienmeatsack

I move mine on the wheels from front to back when I change my brake fluid. And then I have the tire shop move them from side to side for me later.

I've found that this helps esp in the front due to the uneven power distribution and the engine weight on one side.

Unfortunately I need new tires. The tread is wearing thin (too many track days on my streeties) and I have punctures in 3 of the 4 tires from stupid Tulsa crappy roads filled with staples and nails.

invasian

had mine rotated and balanced around 70miles (when i bought my rims)

robbclark1

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I try to rotate them around every oil change so around 7k.

Boilermaker1

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I do the street wheels every 5K. Probably excessive, but oh well.
I do the Race wheels every 2-3 events, just to keep them semi-even.

civicvtec1ps

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Every 6-7k.

mig

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every oil change (6k mi). dig the rocks and other crap out, plus a good chance to clean/polish the inner part of the wheel. remember to check the spare tire pressure also.

armieo

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How much is this costing you guys to remount the tire on different rims EVERY 5k miles?

YUL

ya man..i've got a set of steelies with winter tires on and i just put my summer set up on.

I do it all myself and rotate them when I change to back to my winter set up in the fall (every 8,000 kms or so)

Boilermaker1

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WTF are you talking about? All you need to do is move the wheel to a different place on the car. No one is remounting anything. If you've got directional tires you can have them "flipped" to the other side half way through their life (5/32-6/32" of tread remaining), to keep the wear even, the standard mounting/balancing charge of the shop would apply. Its not necessary, some people do it.
It takes 20 minutes in you're garage. If anyone is paying someone more than $10 or an equivelent case of beer to do this, let me know, you're wasting beer money.

armieo

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If you rotate directional tires on rims from one side of the car to the other without getting them remounted, wouldn't that make the tires go against the direction they are meant to roll?

Boilermaker1

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Directionals go FRONT to BACK on the same side of the car. Thats all you do. Get them off the drive wheels and along for the ride.
Go to tire rack's website. They have a wonderful explaination page of how to rotate tires.

usafstud

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about every 2K

sometimes every few hundred miles, depending on road racing/autoxing schedule

i love abusing america's tire program

armieo

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Uh I know how to rotate tires but I also thought it was healthy to change the sides too.

Like..

Switch right front for left rear

Switch left front for right rear.

tfnaaf

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its recomended to rotate front to back approximately every 5,000 miles to even out tire wear and maximize tread life. Going only side to side in most cases will prematurely wear out your front tires. As your front tires USUALLY take more wear then rears. Lots of tire shops rotate for free to try to earn your business....

robbclark1

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You can't change sides with directional tires. YOu just have to suck up the fact that you are going to get wear. It is good to change sides but only on NON DIRECTIONAL tires.

Zzyzx

ya know, Grassroots motorsports did a test with Directional tires, and they found that running the tires backwards didnt have any noticeable effect on performance, wet or dry.... This may not be the case with all tires though. (They did find that they were a little noisier though)

armieo

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See.. this is the sort of helpful information I needed. Thanks robb.