Rotate Side to side

[SmartDigger]

I rotated my tires side to side today @ 5,000 mile. I will let everyone know how it works out. Anyone else doing this?

[sato7]

every one should rotate the tires off of the rims to put the inner side now to the outer side... that way you will wear the tires evenly... well more so.. our cars have very aggressive angles on the suspension to aide in handling. If you look at the car from behind you can see the tires look like /\ it helps corner better but eats your tires on the inside quite quickly.

[Bum-bling-B]

My rears have worn evenly over the last 28,000 miles despite how it looks (negative camber). The fronts on the other hand......I flipped at around 25k.....trying to talk the wife into letting me get new rims with a good LRR tire.

[fortow]

Originally Posted by sato7

every one should rotate the tires off of the rims to put the inner side now to the outer side... that way you will wear the tires evenly... well more so.. our cars have very aggressive angles on the suspension to aide in handling. If you look at the car from behind you can see the tires look like / it helps corner better but eats your tires on the inside quite quickly.

You're referring to the rear wheels but it's not the rear tires that wear unevenly, even though there is some negative camber. The wear is on the front tires that do not reveal camber when at a standstill. As suspension is compressed the camber changes and, because they are also the steering tires there is excessive wear on the inner portion of the tread. You're right that the only way to compensate for this is to re-mount the tires reversed on the rims. Changing from one side to the other will not help. That is the reason why the factory does not suggest rotating the tires.

Unfortunately, changing front to rear will help somewhat but with different sized tires that isn't possible. That is one reason why I installed the same sized tires on all four wheels (with suitable rims) - so that the wheels can be rotated front to rear.