5 Tire Rotation...??

I've been searching about 5 tire rotation and haven't found a definitive answer to the actual pattern to use. Are there any more thoughts on this? One answer I did find was to keep consistent with a pattern and really won't matter what pattern you use.

I'm leaning to the pattern suggested for 4WD's, a cross rearward pattern...

 

Front to back. Back to front. Radial tires are directional. If you change sides you change the direction of rotation.

 

Sup man! When I bring mine in for a 5 tire rotation, they do the typical 4 tire rotation then sub the passenger rear with the 5th tire. It’s been working just fine for me for about a year and a half!

 

I've read that radials can be changed to the opposite side (as long as they are not directional tires). What you said maybe once was true but todays radials can swap sides. (This is what I read)....

 

Only directional tires should be front to back, and back to front

 

BS. Only a handful of tires are directional. Certainly not all radials.

There is no right or wrong way as long as they are rotated and they do need to reverse direction. Here are some examples. Pick one.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?...ACD01FF859&form=IQFRBA&first=1&cw=1117&ch=511

 

Some are and some are not.

If they are directional it will be molded into the tire sidewall with a directional arrow to indicate direction of rotation.

 

My 2008 has a 5 tire rotation pattern right in the owners manual. Take a look.

 

Just checked both my 12 and 15 manuals. Both only have a 4 tire rotation (front to back)....

 

I think this will be the pattern I'll be going with. Thanks!

 

This definitely is being over thought.

 

From my Owner's Manual:




That said, it's not the pattern I use. I make an X bringing the rears up so each tire spends time at all 5 positions. I don't use directional tires.

Edit: The method shown here in the owners manual is actually pretty dumb. The tires won't wear evenly over the course of their life if you use this method. Make sure each tire spends time at the spare location.

 

I always move front's straight back, cross rear's to front. Rear passenger tire is the one replaced with the spare. But as many said, as long as you choose a pattern and stay to it, you'll be fine. I do suggest crossing the rear's when they go to the front to promote even tire wear, and reduce cupping that typically happen's to the rear's, as long as you don't have directional tires.

 

The tireS will wear just fine if your alignment is good. I’ve never cross rotated tires and have never had tire wear issue. No less than 60k put on any set of tires. So the edit attached is completely false.

 

Yet again trying to out engineer the engineers. Guess Toyota has it completely wrong.

 

The only issue I see here is that your 2 driver side tires are going to spend way more time on the road than the 3 that are being rotated out on the pass side. Maybe im just crazy.

 

It's right only if you are running a 5 tire rotation with directional tires. I'm guessing the number of people doing this is zero. As pictured, When the tires on the driver side have 50,000 miles on them, the tires on the passenger side will only have 33,000. So no, they will not wear evenly.

 

I can see that. I’ve never rotated the spare in. It’s the spare.