Tire Rotation

I was looking for some input for those of you who rotate your own tires, what type of pattern do you use? Im on my 3rd set of tires, each of a different brand and model, and each set have gotten loud after getting a little wear on them, usually around 10,000 miles. I always have my tire rotated along with oil changes every 5000 miles at the dealer. Im not sure what type of rotation pattern there using but Im wondering if its the incorrect one. My tacoma owners manual shows a front to back/ back to front pattern with no crisscrossing. Some diagrams and people show a crisscross pattern to follow with a 4wd vehicle but the owners manual shows something else.

 

Are you using tires with big lugs like an aggressive looking A/T or maybe M/T ?

 

Front to back unless you add the spare to the mix.

 

Edit : non-directional tires benefit to cross rotations. Dealers typically don’t cross to prevent issues, cross rotations can result in noise and harshness.

Typically you cross the front tires to rear and move rear straight to front. This prevents any harshness till the operator.

I do full cross on trucks when I can, most truck tires feather on the edge and get noisy over time. Reversing the rotation combats this.

 

Which tires are you using

 

I do front to back / back to front, driver / passenger sides stay on the same side

 

Every 5K on all my vehicles...

Lift DS, swap front to rear, lift PS, swap front to rear, lift rear, swap sides...EZPZ

 

On 4x4 truck I go rear straight to front. Then, front X to rear if they're non-directional.

 

My Wildpeaks started getting noisy after about 30K of FT/BK rotation. Switched to the cross the front to the rear and move rears straight forward. After a few thousand miles, the noise became less. I rotate like this every time now.

 

Rearward cross 5 wheel rotation for me. Never noticed increased noise with wear

 

Spot on.

 

I stopped cross rotating my tires, and spare tire many years ago. I always rotate mine front to back, but I’ve failed to initialized the tire pressure warning system after tire rotation.

I’m so bad, no issues though

 

The tires Ive had are all all-terrain. Nothing aggressive like mud terrains

- Cooper AT3s
- Falken Wildpeaks
- Hankook AT2s

 

I would do cross rotation. Rear to front, cross fronts to back.

 

Parking brake. Lift front from center cross member under engine add jacks. carefully lift rear from rear axle. add jacks to the axle. Rear tires forward Front tires crossed. Lower torque to 75-85 ft/lbs

 

All tires get louder with wear. The design is optimized for a new tire and no tire wears perfectly. I've had lots of sets of tires.

 

This is your best bet on a truck and regardless of what type of tire.

 

per the manual the tire lug nuts are to be torqued to 83 ft/lbs no more or risk tearing the bolt

 

Your bolts don't tear. I doubt the safety limit is 83 on the dot. 75-85 is well within that limit

 

In the old, old days you would cross. Then steel belted radial tires came a long and it was thought to be bad to switch sides. People thought it was bad for the tires and that belts would 'shift'. This was funny because there really is nowhere for a belt to go. A tire is solid construction. In any case in modern times the modified X pattern has gained popularity. This put your tires at all 4 corners over the rotations. Theoretically creating the most even wear.

The reason people recommend against putting the tires on the other side (aside from the old belt 'shift' nonsense) is that they are rolling in the opposite direction. This is why you shouldn't cross directional tires. The only real drawback to this is that you can get additional road noise if the tires have a wear pattern. Also worth noting is that if you have a wear pattern, you won't fix it by moving positions. A worn tire will continue to wear.

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