How To: Rotate Your Vehicle's Tires

Rotating your vehicle's tires can go a long way in maintaining the life of your tires. It's important to pay attention to a few factors when attempting to do it yourself. Watch as we show you how to rotate your vehicle's tires.

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0:00 Welcome Back
0:31 Front Wheel Drive Rotation
0:45 Rear Wheel Drive Rotation
0:56 All Wheel Drive Rotation
1:07 Directional Wheel Rotation
1:46 Inspect Your Tires
1:59 Park Your Vehicle
2:10 Remove Your Wheels
2:48 Rotate Your Tires
3:05 Inspect Braking Components
3:13 Reattach Your Wheels
3:46 Tips

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Transcript:
There are four different rotation patterns you may use, depending on your vehicle and your tires.

If your vehicle is front-wheel drive, it’s typically recommended that you take the front tires straight back, the left rear tire to the right front and the right rear tire to the left front.

If your vehicle is rear-wheel drive, it’s recommended you take the rear tires straight forward, the left front tire to the right rear and the right front tire to the left rear.

If your vehicle is all-wheel drive, it’s recommended you rotate the tires in a double-cross pattern, where the front right and left rear tires trade places, and the front left and right rear tires trade places.

If your vehicle has directional tires, it’s recommended the front tires go to the rear, and the rear tires go to the front, unless tires are removed from their rims so direction can be changed. Supplies Needed for This Job:

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[williampennjr.]

I spent over an hour rotating my tires with my little jack only to run over a nail as soon as I pulled out of my parking space. Had to get 2 new tires, alignment and all that. Umf.

[AutotechWoodworking]

As a "front end" technician, (steering, suspension, tires, and alignment), I find fault with the procedures that auto and tire manufacturers recommend to rotate tires. Their recommendations do not take into consideration whether the vehicle is in proper alignment, if the tires are wearing irregular due to worn parts, low or high air pressure, or any other variable. They are not "real world" recommendations. When I rotated tires, I would "read" the tires first to determine what side of the vehicle the tire should be placed, and it almost never coincided with the usual recommendations. All tires develop a wear pattern from turning in one direction as you drive, if that wear pattern is more than a moderate amount, then the tires should be rotated to the opposite side of the car, no matter whether it is front, rear, all, or four wheel drive. If they are rotated to the same side, the wear pattern will continue to get worse, especially it the vehicle is not getting an alignment, or has not had one recently.

[frankmontez]

I think I'm going to do it myself . I'm going to try using my impact driver ( not wrench unfortunately ) and I probably need to loosen / tighten lugs with tire iron .

[sounique]

Thanks for the explanation and detail. Where would it tell the arrows or info for how the direction for tires go???

[brucemartini]

heck, i rotate my tires, everytime i drive my truck🤣

[Jason-odfh]

1:22, “tell me about a PT cruiser🗣️‼️🔥”

[blairakana]

I wish you would’ve shown the entire car lifted and showed more detail on his video. But thanks for the information.

[Greenpower]

Does this mean you have to take the rear tires off the rim so so when you cross the tires to the front, the worn out side of the tire is now facing inward?

[rickbat]

Video completely passed over the home lifting and securing the vehicle part. It said follow the link but that is hard to find. The rest of the information is mostly remedial.

[seanewan]

New tires, after 7, 000 miles you perform the first rotation, putting front to back, back to front, same side. Next rotation, after another 7, 000 miles, should be an off rim rotation to keep the inner tread wear uniform with the outer wear, taking the back right up to the front left and the front left to the back right and the back left up to the front right and the front right to the back left. 3rd rotation after another 7, 000 miles will be the same as the first rotation. Then another 7, 000 miles you do the same as the second rotation, an off rim crisscross rotation. Repeating these steps every 7, 000 miles will extent the life of your tires to their designed limit and will prevent them from premature failure due to improper wear. You should be putting 4 tires into the dump every ten years, not 12 tires. Get real!!

[knightrcer]

I think I'm being ripped off but how much should a tire rotation cost in general?

[FluxPrintD]

I go get tires rotated and end up with a $2400 bill. New tires, suspension, alignment, oil change…..😩

[davidmiller]

This is stupid. I rotate the tires on my car every day, when I drive it.

[stashorama]

You don't need a floor jack and four jack stands to rotate your car's tires. Frankly, having the car up on four jack stands is foolish.

You can use the jack that came with your car, remove one tire, temporarily mount the spare tire in its place and then proceed rotate the tires from there. When you are finished, put the spare and jack back in the trunk.

Also, don't carry the tires like the guy in the video. Roll them, don't carry.

[praisethesun]

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[ronw]

Who rotates tires every 5 to 7 thousand miles?

[Pandemos]

This is a "draw the owl" tutorial, where you completely skipped how properly jack up a vehicle. One of the most important stages. "Watch our video"...okay, that's what I'm doing. At least have a link pop up or something.

[GG-egkn]

“Rotating” is the wrong word to use.. to me rotating tyres mean rotating them in situe? Don’t they rotate on the road when driving? It Should be called “swapping your tyres”