which way do i rotate my tires x or circle?


Thanks in advance

I've been pretty successful lately using modified x-rotation patterns on my Hondas.

On the FWD variants, I move back to front, front cross to rears.

On the 4WD variants, I move front to back, back cross to fronts.

So far haven't had a lick of trouble with tire integrity doing this sort of rotation, and it keeps the natural feathering of the tread down to almost nothing. Back in the "old days" you'd never change the rolling direction of a tire, but with the new mfg technology this seems to not be an issue.

Only exception to this, obviously, are directional wheels/tires, as well as snow tires with studs (which you cannot change the rotation of the tire, otherwise your studs start to become projectiles. :paranoid: ).

andy

Sounds good, every how many miles do you rotate?

Thanks Andy

Honda says to rotate straight front-to-back, then cross back-to-front. If you have *directional* tread, rotate straight front to back and back to front, i.e. don't cross.

As for how often, there are lots of factors and opinions. But my experience is that if you do not drive aggressively and/or you drive a lot of highway miles, and you do not have to do a lot of turning, twisting roads, you can do 10-15K miles rotation intervals with no problem. Heck, some people never rotate, but I don't recommend that.

Conversely, if you drive more aggressively, or have tires with softer compound ("grippier"), or have a lot of twists and turns, you may want to do it at more like 5-6K.

As always, YMMV.

Honda says to rotate straight front-to-back, then cross back-to-front. If you have *directional* tread, rotate straight front to back and back to front, i.e. don't cross.

As for how often, there are lots of factors and opinions. But my experience is that if you do not drive aggressively and/or you drive a lot of highway miles, and you do not have to do a lot of turning, twisting roads, you can do 10-15K miles rotation intervals with no problem. Heck, some people never rotate, but I don't recommend that.

Conversely, if you drive more aggressively, or have tires with softer compound ("grippier"), or have a lot of twists and turns, you may want to do it at more like 5-6K.

As always, YMMV.
+1 to all that he said.

great!

i do mostly hwy driving so I can wait till 10k then.

thanks guys

History Lesson – back in the early ‘80’s someone at Honda had the revelation that Honda cars’ front tires wore out about twice as fast as the rear tires, so for a short time, the “official” recommendation was to not rotate the tires at all, and by the time the 2nd set of front tires wore out, it’d be time to replace all 4.

That didn’t last very long, although I’m not sure why. I’m guessing that they realized that rotation is relatively cheap/easy and is great for minimizing cupping and other effects of other non-ideal factors such as suspension wear, imbalance, etc.

Rotated my tires the other day... Did the front to rear, and rear to front but crossed.

Man, I'm either getting old or I'm out of shape. My back was killing me. But then again, I was kinda rushing it while changing out two of them.

Haha...that's why I do all the maintenance myself. I rotate my tires at oil changes and it only takes me about 20 minutes top to rotate them because I use 4 jackstands to do it. So a total of about an hour, I have my oil changed and tires rotated at about $35 (M1 oil and filter). Not a bad deal at all!