tire rotation

Ah, love shit post Friday.......

 

Rotate??

 

Tire or vehicle manufacturer?
Toyota Corp is the only one who's going to say front-rear. Our resident forum Toyota tech even does rear-cross.

 

Tires on my Taco 2wd are directional. What do I do? Come to think of it, also directional on our other vehicle.

 

I thought it was sit and spin.

 

Because it's Friday at TW...

 

Could be worse, my M3 has staggered tires and they are unidirectional so no rotation. Granted I burn through them before they would ever need to be rotated......

 

BMW does not recommend rotating tires. I should say on a BMW due to their 50/50 weight distribution.

 

Well, I’d go with Toyota. They engineered the suspension. Tire manufacturers have no idea what vehicle they are going on.

Oh, and my personal experience with Toyota techs (notice they don’t dare call them “Mechanics”) is they aren’t the brightest bulbs in the pack.

 

I just rotate one to the left. The 5th one on my spare carrier goes to the rear driver and then they all scooch one over, rear passenger ends up in the spare carrier

 

Back when all vehicles had full size spares on stock steel wheels mounting bias ply tires that was the way.

Radials changed that.

 

While you are rotating tires, don't forget to rotate your wood stick if you are using one.

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