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Beachboy
Joined: 09 Dec 2007
Location: berkshire
Posts: 65
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I have noticed that my front tyres seem to wear quicker than the rears. Is it adviceable to rotate them through the axle's 
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AndrewW
Joined: 06 Aug 2007
Location: Saddleworth
Posts: 1423
 
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My wheels rotate.... 
No - seriously I don't think that anyone does this any more, but there remains a rolling wheel size equality argument.
My personal view is that a centre diff. does away with worries about wheel size - your front wheels go further than your back wheels anyway!
I was told - and believe - that to rotate tyres to balance out uneven wear has three detriments:-
1. reduced grip until they bed in
2. accelerated wear as they bed in
3. they all wear out together and you have to buy a full set
Despite/following the above, if my front tyres wear faster I stick 'em on the back 'til they wear out, then put the 2 new tyres on the front and move t'others back to the back.
But this time I got a woodscrew in the lateral tread of a back one and just HAD to buy a full set of AT2s  06 TDV6 SE Tonga Green
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| Sat Oct 11 2008 10:16am |
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DSL
Joined: 11 May 2006
Location: In the Dog House!
Posts: 10064
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I've never rotated wheels (too lazy or change wheels anyway for offroading regularly) but supose the advantage of swapping & evening out the wear is that U need 4 at the same time and can get the "4 for the price of 3" deals. Honda Dog U better DUCK!!!!!
and Honda Dog supports
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| Sat Oct 11 2008 12:26pm |
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dick dastardly
Joined: 29 May 2007
Location: location location location
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Rather than rotate tyres to get the last mm tread wear I prefer to not rotate but replace all 4 when 1 tyre reaches minimum. May be more expensive in terms of tyres but may prove less expensive in terms of human life should I need to stop 3 tons in a hurry. There are 10 types of people in the world. Those that understand binary, and those that do not
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| Sat Oct 11 2008 10:56pm |
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simonsi
Joined: 14 Oct 2007
Location: Leicester
Posts: 880
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Scorpions have a built-in noise encoragement to change at around the 3mm mark... 
Wouldn't bother rotating, I can't see any point in having an aim of all tyres equally worn out to that degree. Diffs are there to cope with a variety of rolling radius and distance differences/changes, only one factor of which is tyre wear. Cheers
Simon
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