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Re: wheel alignment
Rich,
Invest 10 bucks or so in a tyre gauge which you can always keep in the glovebox to save yourself the embarrassment and costly tyre replacements 
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15/Dec/2009, 8:45 pm
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craig90
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Date Registered: 12-2009
Location: Brisbane
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Re: wheel alignment
I've always been told to never rotate your tyres on new cars because the tyres wear to the suspension on that side of the car and if you change the tyre over it doesn't sit correctly on the road with the independant suspension. Or was i told a furfy a long time ago? 
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16/Dec/2009, 7:00 am
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rescue1
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Date Registered: 01-2009
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Re: wheel alignment
The general rule of thumb is that radial ply tyres should never be switched from one side of the car to the other unless they are reversed on the rim, which I always did with the tyres on my 180B as the rears got chewed up on the inside. Front to back on the same side is quite OK provided the wheels are the same size (never had to rotate the wheels on the smart)
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16/Dec/2009, 7:06 am
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Swagman
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Date Registered: 05-2009
Location: Victoria, Australia
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Re: wheel alignment
quote:
rescue1 wrote:
The general rule of thumb is that radial ply tyres should never be switched from one side of the car to the other unless they are reversed on the rim, which I always did with the tyres on my 180B as the rears got chewed up on the inside. Front to back on the same side is quite OK provided the wheels are the same size (never had to rotate the wheels on the smart)
Yeah, that fits with what I've been told by tyre engineer colleagues, and what I've done since my first car in the 60s.
Typically I just put new tyres on the front, then move the old front tyres to the back (keeping them rotating the same direction - i.e. on the same side of the car). The spare is kept out of the mix (I just keep the "next" best tyre as the spare.
I tend to think that while rotation does even out the wear, it ALSO disguises the fact that there might be a problem. If a tyre is showing wear that indicates a problem (whether that's over/under inflastion, balance, alignmnent, whatever), I'd prefer to have the evidence visible rather than hidden becaue of the rotation. That way you can address the problem itself.
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16/Dec/2009, 11:29 am
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