Originally Posted by bachman
Originally Posted by UG_Passat
Originally Posted by bachman
Originally Posted by UG_Passat
The key point is rotate them often enough, that you don't have too much of a wear difference between each tire.
VW calls for 10,000 mile rotation to coincide with their maintenance schedule, which IMO, is way too long between rotations.
Yeah, that's by far not real-world - 10k
You can so easily tell by viewing tires , tread wear, even or uneven and depth of the tread block etc...
I think the belted tires of years ago warned against side to side swaps due to the belts shifting off center. Anyone who know the prices of good tires and doesn't like to skimp isn't be cheap IMO being somewhat anal about monitoring the tire wear and doing the rotate front to rear accordingly to get the life and performance bang for buck.
If you have to do a side to side swap for a reason, it's probably an alignment issue.
With especially European manufacturers with their extended drain intervals, that's when you rotate tires, if they even rotate them at all.
But, even the other makes are slowly going to longer oil drain intervals, which in turn, means longer tire rotation intervals.
UG_Passat
I realize you are repeating what 'they say' and I hope not buying into it or promoting the smarts of it....
IMO Oil change interval = tire wear and rotation needs ? There is no part of the globe where that wound make more sense, less sense or any sense ! Is that by some coincidence when I should add washer fluid too ?
On the OP point, I have not seen many car owner mans that do not state exactly how the rotate pattern is to be done per manufacturer design. Most of the time it's a bold diagram with arrows and very limited reading.
Go look at a VW maintenance schedule. The German overlords says 10,000 mile rotations are fine.