When to Rotate Car Tires

Tire rotation will increase the life of your tires and make you vehicle safer to drive.  Rotating your tires will allow them to wear evenly.  Your vehicle will have a smoother ride when the tires are rotated regularly. It is important to know what to look for and when to rotate your tires, this will ensure your tires are properly maintained.

• The owner's manual has the guidelines as to when to rotate your vehicle tires.  The tire manufactures recommend that you rotate your vehicle's tires between 5,000 to 10,000 miles.  Inspect your tire treads at regular intervals to ensure that they are wearing evenly.


• Rotating your vehicle's tires will ensure that the tires wear evenly.  The tires on each side of the vehicle work differently and the right side of the vehicle have a lot more exposure to the curb and other obstructions. Therefore, by moving the right side tires to the left side tires of the vehicle, the tire will wear evenly overtime.


• Front tires on a front-wheel drive vehicle will wear faster than the rear tires, so if you notice that the front tires are more worn than the back tires, you should rotate your tires to make the back tires evenly wear as much as the front tires.


• When buying only two tires to replace the worn front tires, rotate the new tires on the rear axles of the vehicle and put the rear tires on the front axles.