Fair point but over this side of the ocean our farmers cant buy plows in any color for love nor money so they’re reduced to making do with ploughs which can be purchased here in a variety of colours:)
I found that on my last Pathfinder, a ’93. The front and rear tires wore about the same. I drive a lot of mountain highway miles and use 4x4 a lot though. I suppose city drivers would have a different experience.
As far as expense. I got my last set of tires at a national (USA) chain. They will rotate them for free.
Only some tires are directional, because of tread design, and they are usually marked w/ arrows on the sidewall. Directional tires can only be rotated front to rear, not side to side.
I did a little calculation-I assumed front tires wear at the rate of 20% (tread depth) -per 10K miles. The rears wear at 5%/10K miles. under these assumptions, it makes sense to rotate (but it makes no sense to do this at less than a 10,000 mile interval. Where i am, a rotation costs $20.00-so it is cost effective.
I don’t rotate my tires, though I do a full switch from 4-seasons to winter tires in November and then back again in April or so. Over the several years that I own each set of tire for, I just tend to assume that they end up on different points on the car after every switch!
in rwd cars, the driven tires wear differently than the steering tires, rotating them distributes the wear. In fwd cars, the front tires handle both planting the power an steering, which wears the whole tire more quickly. Rotating the tires ensures longer life for all of them and also keeps them aging at the same rate (vs old old tires in back, while you keep replacing the fronts. Further, if you have great differences in tread depth, your car can have a dangerous tendency to over or under steer. Rotating’s good, umkay?
I wasn’t responding to you. So there.
And when you go to get new tires but have rotated them faithfully, you don’t get the tire guy tsking about cupping. Whatever that is.
I hate being tsked at by the tire guy. It makes me feel ashamed.
I was under the impression that with radial tires, you were only supposed to rotate front to back anyhow. With old bias-ply tires, you were supposed to swap sides, but not with the newer radials.
I find that rotating your posts annually keeps them from wearing unevenly.
That’s not entirely true. You CAN rotate side to side, it just requires dismounting the tire from the wheel. (Not something people typically want to do), and I’m not sure what wear situation would warrant doing so. (perhaps a kid who has money to swap sides, but no money for new tires, a lead foot, and a tendency to only turn left.)
It’s rotation in the volleyball sense.
I do hope you mean flipping it to the other side of the car, and not flipping the actual wheel around and bolting it back on.
That was the case maybe 40 years ago, but improvements in radial tire design have eliminated this concern for a few decades now.