I just rotated my tyres using this very method today! One thing I would say it's worth doing in addition to this is chocking the tyres still on the ground, using a chock made for the job or a couple of bricks, just to be extra safe, especially if you are doing this on anything less than a level surface. Great video!
Great Video. "Discount Tire", will provide rotation and pressure check for free. Generally no appointment needed. I've also found them to be very professional and helpful.
Discount Tire is a good choice, but the ones around here are insanely busy every day. I can rotate my tires faster than the wait time at Discount Tire.
I have had a different experience with Discount Tire. They fixed a slow leak in one of my tires and when I got the car back to my house I realized they checked all the air pressure in my tires and set them all to 28lbs and forgot to put the valve stem caps back on. The reason I checked the tire pressure was because I got a low pressure warning on all four tires. I corrected the tire pressure and decided to check the torque on the lug nuts on the tire they repaired and it wasn’t even close. Sloppy work on their part. I’ve since repaired two tires myself, one with a nail and the other had a screw. I’m sure most Discount Tire locations are just fine, but our local store is crap.
@@jshomes10 maybe here in CA is different. I went today for a tire rotation and they told be only free for tires bought there. Otherwise $25 per tire. Tesla mobile is $65 for all. I went with Tesla.
I wished I had watched this before yesterday when I tried to do it myself 😀 probably took 10 years off my life yesterday! The one thing that is lacking from videos like this is what to do when you rotate your tires and your tire pressure monitoring system is reporting wrong locations on the wheels. I just had four new tires installed and the wheels didn't end up in the same location.
Just did this yesterday on the wifes 2022 Model 3 LR for the 5th time. Minus the pucks it's basically the same as any car. Lesson learned here and I'll accept all the responsibility for not noiticing before but all 4 tires are worn on the inside and need to be replaced at 30,000. I didn't notice it before at 24,000, 18000, 12000, 6,000. I'd guess the rest of the tire has at least 10,000 of wear left until they would need to be replaced. So if the car was brand new again I'd have them balanced 1-2 times. Rotating is easy enough but not balancing them was a mistake.
As always great video. I have heavy 20" wheels on my MY. I use two THREADED LUG BOLT GUIDEs from Abstract Ocean for aligning the wheel holes with the threaded holes in the wheel hub.
Old trick my dad showed me when I was a kid: Put the wheel back on the studs and hand tighten all the lug nuts until they stop. HIT the tire dozens of times with the palms of your hands along the sidewall of the tire. Don't be modest give it decently hard hits! Hand tighten all the lug nuts until they stop again. Repeat banging the sidewall of the tire in a circle with your palms of your hands and hand tightening the lug nuts until they all won't turn anymore. You now have the rim perfectly centered on the studs and are good to torque it down! 👍
Discount Tire in Omaha did mine for free and I didn't even buy tires from them. Obviously, they do it with the hope of getting future business, but that is pretty cool!
👍 I rotate tires 2 X a year because in November I install winter tires and go back to summers end of March or April, mark the tire position with chalk. Probably been doing the rotation thing for 25 to 30 years and back then there were oil changes back then and I have changed brake pads and disks a few times. A breaker bar is cheap insurance to keep your torque wrench from being abused.
Well unless EV tires are like unidirectional motorcycle tires. You'd have to swap them to the other side of the vehicle so they would roll in the other direction. 😁
Great video, as always. A quick comment. I believe the "miles ago" message on the screen is not how long ago you were supposed to rotate but how long ago you reset that number.
Thanks. Good video. Actually I just use Discount Tire for free. You could also use 2 inexpensive 2 ton floor jacks (such as the ones at Walmart) instead of the floor jack and jack stand. Actually cheaper than the 2.5 ton jack.
Great video and demonstration. Two things I would recommend: 1. Before putting the wheels back on, inspect the hub mating surface and lug nuts for rust, clean these with a wire brush if rust is visible. 2. After you lower the car to start torquing the lugs, don't do full torquing on the first pass. Torque them all to about 60 ft lb in the star pattern and then do a second pass for the final torque. Hope this extra info helps keep our Tesla Family safe. Extra Note, need to follow the "Reset tire pressure monitoring sensor TPMS" instructions in your Tesla Manual after the rotation to get them recalibrated to the new tire locations.
I don’t think the Tesla mobile service guy that was out to rotate my tires a few weeks ago reset the TPMS positions. Tried to look that up in the manual, but didn’t find it. I’ll try looking for it on the screen.
I will mention an important point for everyone to read! The first time you take your brand new car to a shop and you watch an idiot set his impact wrench to the maximum torque setting. Then you see him take the first lug nut and fully tighten it down ALL THE WAY! He doesn't bother to hand tighten the lug nuts first and make sure that the wheel is properly aligned. Then he precedes to put all the other lug nuts down at 200 plus foot pounds bending the heck out of your rim, studs, and even possibly warping your brake rotors. I have not seen a single mechanic properly center the rim on the studs in over 30 years! Here is the proper way to do it! 1. Put Tire onto the studs. 2. Hand tighten all lug nuts until they stop. 3. With the palms of your hands. Start banging on the side walls of the tire all around in a circle many times. This vibration helps to center the rim on the studs perfectly. 4. Continue alternating between banging on the side walls with your palms of your hands all around in a circle and hand tightening the lug nuts until they will no longer go down anymore. 5. Then, and ONLY then, do you snug them up more and lower the tire to touch the ground. 6. Proceed with tightening the lug nuts in a star pattern. You want to start at roughly 30 foot pounds first. Do two or three intervals working up to the manufacturer's recommended torque spec. THAT is how you properly center a rim on the studs and tighten it down without messing anything up!
I use an impact wrench. Those lug nuts are torqued to 129 ft/pounds and I am too old (at age 40) to use manual force to loosen them. I use labeled tire totes to remember the position of the tires each time I change from Winter to Summer and rotate accordingly. Tesla will try to add a tire rotation service if you go in for something else but have not registered your own tire rotation in the service section.
I once took my tesla in for an alignment check and tire rotation, and they didn’t do either! I had to pull a Karen to get them to do the work I brought the car in for. Lost another day without the car. I frigging’ hate dealing with Tesla.
This works when you have the same tires on the front and back. On both my Model Y Performance and my Model X Plain this is not the case so I do need to use the jack stands.
Haha our family owns 4 Tesla cars since Model S 2013, S 2015, 2020M3 and MY 2024, never rotated a wheel buy new rear tires every second year. All depends of driving habits and driving style.
Great. BUT…. I have an X and have different size tires on the front and back and therefore need to rotate side to side and not front to back. How about showing how that is done. Thanks in advance.
One jack and three (purchase four) jack stands. Lift up front on one side, jack stand on the rear. Repeat on opposite side. After Jack Stands on both rear sides, lift one front side again. Place #3 jackstand on side opposite the jack. You'll them have the entire car off the ground using the Jack and three jack stands. If necessary some blocks of wood under one of the tires as you're doing the two front tires at the same time will be helpful.
If you have an Austin built Model Y AWD with the 4680 batteries and 279 miles of range, those standard pucks DO NOT FIT!!! The holes the pucks fit into are smaller than the other Model Y’s. I have yet to find a set of pucks that fit it. I decided to take it to Discount Tire and bought their package that does the rotation, balancing, and hazard warranty.
Your car (model Y) weighs about 2.5 tons, when you jack up the car, it is usually one side (two wheels off the ground), so you are lifting 1.25 tons at a time. 2 tons should be fine, but I would use a 3 ton jackstand because they are higher and give you more clearance when you change the tire.
@@iowatesla I see, maybe so. I was just thinking the people that own Model Y performance are stuck not rotating because of tire size differences. That’s to bad.
Even I know you have to rotate your cars tires.. Ever truck or car has suspension each corner of our suspension wear at different rates, ... that's why you rotate your tires. Doesn't matter weather it's All-wheel drive or two wheel drive. ROTATE YOUR TIRES
@@Wendy-nm9zw I never did for the five years I owned my 2018 Model 3, went through two sets of tires. Both sets wore evenly. I asked the tesla mechanic about tire rotation and he said it wasn’t really necessary. I’ll go by what my experience is, and from what he said. I won’t be doing it on my new 2023 Model Y, I’ll take my chances.
Pretty sure you are supposed to rotate them in an X pattern unless they are directional. You know that they are directional if they have a rotation arrow on the tire.
"tyre rotation" would be to remove them from the rims if they're not directional. This is wheel rotation, being pedantic. :) Obsessives would also re-balance them at half wear and have the wheel alignment done.
Is your tire directional? I’m probably going to rotate exactly how you did (I have the standard 19in Gemini / Non Directional Tires) but the manual says to do the cross pattern. What are your thoughts?
What about going across? I saw another video where someone uses 2 floor jacks to lift the back of the car up and switch the rear tires after rotating both sides
Perfect explanation on how to do this. Here in NY it is $70 to have Tesla come do the rotation, but a local car wash/service place did it for $30. However, it was good that I had lift pucks for them since they didn't have any!!
That looks super easy, thanks! As for your cost estimate, that seems way off. The approximate cost of all the necessary tools and supplies is about $200. The cost for me to have my Model Y’s tires rotated is $30. That comes to 7 rotations to fully pay for the tools, not 2-3. That said, I will hit that in less than 2 years, which is still reasonable. Tesla may charge more, but I get mine rotated locally which is only $30. Just putting that out there so people who choose to go this route don’t have unreasonable expectations, but it is still worth it.
@@bluedog9935 No one out in the world uses pucks. I've been to a number of shops for state inspections and tire mounting. Never saw a puck. No damage as far as I can tell.
@@incognitotorpedo42 Really, no one? Yeah, no one has time to reach under the car and install that silly little rubber puck. Just gitter dunn. Besides, what’s the worst that can happen? It’s like safety goggles and seat belts. Why bother, I mean what with the time you save, you could pluck the lint out of your bellybutton.
@@iowateslawell..not really... everytime I rotate the wheels the tire dealer finds some changes and has to install 1 o 2 little weights to restore the tires balancing. Bear in mind that even small holes in the asphalt can change the balancing...
I think that is too nitpicky. Most tire shops will not check your tire balance when they rotate your tires, only when they install new ones or have repairs done to the rim. One or two tokens on the wheel do not make a big difference to the driving experience.
@@khuo0219 well.....this how the tyre shop do not act in a professional way. When I go to rotate my tires for 5 euros for each tire they check the balance and usually for every tire they need to add those weights...and I see with my eyes that the tires are not balanced and I feel some vibration at certain speeds... sometimes are hardly perceived, some other times more evident. It is obvious that the axles, the wheels, the suspensions must be in perfect conditions, otherwise you don't feel those vibrations... So, if you want to drive as you should you should check the balance everytime you rotate your wheels, otherwise don't do it. I prefer to spend 20 euros every 15.000 km...so everytime I rotate my wheels.
Interesting question. It did not occur to me that the TPMS is fixed to the tire rather than the car. I carry an air compressor and check manually if something seems off. But if you know how to update the location please let use know!
Second the use of lug bolt mounting extensions. Also the Michelin cross climate two tires, definitely worth the investment. Surprised all the comments about the TPMS sensors, I thought Elon’s favorite part was no part. Last two VW’s I’ve had eliminated the TPMS sensors and simply monitor the wheel speed sensors. Improperly inflated tires don’t spin at the correct speed and can be detected after a short drive. Only requires the addition of a optional switch hardware or software to initiate a relearning after setting your tire pressures.
TPMS Sensors are required on all new vehicles in the USA. "Among other matters, within TREAD Act of 2000, the U.S. federal government mandated the required implementation of TPMS on all new vehicles in the following phased rollout: 20% of new vehicles from Oct 5, 2005-Aug 31, 2006. 70% of new vehicles from Sept 1, 2006-Aug 31, 2007."
@@LordTimelord it’s an indirect system, still considered a tpms system even though it’s not actually measuring the actual pressure and requires the vehicle to move an appropriate amount for it to calculate if the wheel rotation has changed since it was last calibrated. As far as how they got that system approved, not sure 🤔 $$$🙊but it seemed to work fine on my 2012 Passat, and I like that there are less parts on the car to fail. That and since I ran mounted snows I didn’t have to buy more sensors when I bought the extra wheels and tires. Very simple system to use, just set your pressure with a gauge, then press the calibrate button in the glovebox and take the car for a drive.
"tyre rotation" would be to remove them from the rims if they're not directional. This is wheel rotation, being pedantic. :) Obsessives would also re-balance them at half wear and have the wheel alignment done.
This is how you do it if you don't have a proper lift. I use a quickjack lift. You are supposed to move both rears to the front and then put the front right to the rear left and front left to rear right. The emway you are doing it will always have the fronts back where they originally were. Even a small miss alignment will make them wear unevenly. Just saying, if you want it done properly
The only issue is that your TPMS sensors are out of whack, if you move them around they no longer register in the proper location - the Tesla tech can reprogram them so they they register on the correct wheel.
