How often do you rotate your tires?

Guidelines often suggest doing it every 6 to 7.5K. I must admit I have never been so good at doing that. Do the rest of the TMs do better?

Every 15K.

Not regularly and have come up with very inventive ways to put it off. Like if you do the first one at 15K you can do the second one at 45K because of the uneven wear that the tires get after the first 15K will take 15K to correct, then another 15K to go the other way.

5k at the same time as the oil changes, 5 tire rotation. Once I kill one of them I’ll go to a four tire rotation.

Every 6K. It come free with my tires, takes 15 min. with an appt., and they inspect the tires. High speed blowouts are frightening.

Twice a year, when I switch between summer and winter tires.

Every time I drive; they just rotate by themselves.

I do it when I change the oil, so each car varies a little bit. Some cars, they don’t get rotated, like the Jeep. Those tires don’t wear, they “chunk”. The 65 Ford has bigger tires on the rear, and I it only gets a few hundred miles a year.

Me too. The owner’s manual recommends against it, but it should make all 4 summer tyres wear out at the same time.

:dubious: Why would the owner’s manual recommend against this? I do it too - with 12K per year, it works out to rotation every 6K or so - but I can’t fathom why the manufacturer would recommend against it.

I do it every other time I get my oil changed, which is every 5,000 miles, so every 10,000 miles.

I switch from summer wheels/tires to winter wheels/tires, twice a year.

Otherwise, my wheels/tires are directional and staggered, so no rotation.

The auto shop in my office building includes tire rotation with an oil change, so every 5,000 miles for me.

The last time, they found a screw in one tire, and didn’t charge any extra to dismount, patch remout and balance it.

When I think about it and feel like spending ~$25 on it, which isn’t often enough.

Same here but with one more rotation of the summer tires at the end of July so three time yearly.

Since the rear wheels of my handcycle are canted and the front remains vertical(no leaning), I rotate every three months-about 1,100-1,300 miles.

Aren’t they rotating while I drive? :slight_smile:

Had my last POS car for 3.5 years and about 23,000 miles (yeah, that’s all). They got rotated three times, but that was as tires were replaced or repaired. They seemed to be wearing rather heavily and unevenly.

Car before that I don’t think I had them rotated more than a couple of times in 120,000 miles, usually as wear indicated.

The place where I buy my tires does free tire rotation and flat repairs. Still I only rotate them about once per year. They are directional tires and seem to wear very evenly all around.

I’ve had it done once that I know of, it was included as part of my transmission fluid change at the dealership… unless the people who change my oil rotate the tires without telling me (which is possible, they’re pretty cool). I’ve been driving for 3.5 years on the same tires. No flats or blowouts or significant loss of tread yet.

I don’t.