Which wear faster front or rear tires?

For those of you who have put enough miles on your 2nd gen Tacos and become familiar with tire wear attributes, have you found that the front or rear wear faster? Some vehicles wear the rear faster because that is where most of the start/stop torque is applied. Other vehicles wear front tires faster. My rear & front are worn evenly but one has more tread. I'm trying to determine if mine have been rotated or whether it's time to rotate them. Thanks.

 

Fronts from turning unless you do burnouts.

 

Personally I really cant say either way because I do get mine rotated every 5k miles so that way they all wear together.

 

usually
RWD will wear even
AWD will wear even
FWD eats the front tires

not taking into consideration sharp turns or heavy acceleration or heavy deceleration

 

Ive always been under the impression on a pick up truck, that fronts will wear out much faster than the rear because of the no weight in the rear.

 

Every pick-up truck I've ever owned (on my fourth now, a mitsubishi, mazda, ford diesel, taco), rear tires wore faster.

Including other vehicles, this can be generalized (purely anecdotal as only my cars & trucks were used for the sample) to all rear-wheel-drive vehicles, wear rear-first.

Or even more general, drive wheels wear faster (though I haven't had a front wheel drive car since 1998).

This doesn't apply to anyone else, of course, and driving style has a huge effect on tire wear.

 

If your front alignment is fucked up you can chew through a set in a couple weeks

 

Which pair has more tread?

When was it last aligned?

What is your driving style?

 

I'm wondering if towing might make the rears wear faster... do you tow much?

 

My tires don't wear unevenly because I rotate them every 5,000 miles like you are supposed to.

I also maintain proper alignment.

 

Just rotate them every 5-7k miles and they'll wear evenly. Will continue to better the ride quality too because most places will rebalance the tires when they rotate them too.

 

This. As it should be.

 

Of course they wear unevenly. If they didn't, you wouldn't need to rotate the tires
Rotating the tires *compensates* for uneven wear, and distributes it across all the tires.

And it's absolutely necessary, as you say. Except for my Landcruiser when I had that. It wore out tires perfectly evenly. I do miss it.

And extra kudos on the alignment point. Unless you're driving one of the new diesel super trucks with 900 bajillion lb-ft of torque which just eat rear tires, alignment issues have far more effect than most anything else.

 

If your alignment was right on and you never rotated your tires, your rears will will out quicker being it's a rear wheel drive that is the axle with the power. Alignment wear/ lack of rotating can kill your front tires but if alignment Is good and keep them rotated. They'll be even