By Stephen on Saturday, June 09, 2001 - 01:22 pm: Edit

Do I want to rotate my tires or is this unneccessary? If I do rotate, I just switch front to back - keeping the tires on the same side of the truck? How often is rotation reccomended?

By Blue Gill (Bluegill) on Saturday, June 09, 2001 - 03:48 pm: Edit

just switch front to back - keeping the tires on the same side of the truck

I do it with every oil change (~3500 miles)

By Tom Proctor on Monday, June 11, 2001 - 10:06 am: Edit

I rotate all five wheels (including Alloy spare) in a rearward cross pattern, then swap the spare with the right rear. This rotation pattern moves all your tires through every position on the vehicle. I do this every 3-6k miles. Depending on the tire, you do not have to keep it on the same side of the vehicle.

Here is a web page worth reading:

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/rotate.htm

The bottom line about rotating the tires on *one* side of the vehicle depends on two things:

1. What the tire manufacturer recommends
2. Front wheel, Rear wheel, All wheel drive...

Hope this helps,

Tom P.
96 Disco

By Frank on Monday, June 11, 2001 - 07:52 pm: Edit

I was told from Land Rover that they DO NOT recommend the rotation. Has to do w/ the all wheel drive.