You NEED to rotate your tires. HOW & WHY 

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But Cooley, my wheels are staggered.

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Couple of caveats to this: 1) Across the vehicle is only applicable so long as the tire treads are NOT unidirectional 2) Staggered tires cannot be rotated front to back But most of Master Cooley's wisdom is applicable for most vehicles.

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It's not so easy with directional tires since you can't just change wheels from one side to the other without taking the tires off the rims. That being said, it's good to see Brian Cooley again!

I've been driving since I turned 7 and I didn't know this. Thanks

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Very good video. Do I balance every year. Have two cars cost $200 every year for summer and winter tires switch. So I purchased jack from Costco now I need power tool to get the bolts. Any suggestions sir?

Cooley, if i have a full size spare should i rotate that too?

When buying two new tires, Why do shops put the new ones in the back and not in the front?

I have an extreme proof case of this on my cirrus. I don't remember how long ago that I had my tires replaced, but the front are down to the wear bars, while the rear are both still over half life. Of course, I do drive QUITE aggressively.

Cooley (in San Francisco) didn’t mention that it can be done during the regular switch from summer to winter tires ☀️❄️

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COOLEY check the balance while rotating

Some tires also have a rotation arrow on them so they must be rolling in the same direction after you have rotated them. Some owners manuals address that too.

Do we need to do wheel alignment every time we rotated tyres

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I always do it, but I do live in a country with winter so it's a bit easier :)

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What about directional tyres?

Cooley - Not that it is very common, but adding a car with a staggered setup would have been nice as well. Especially since those with mixed sized tires have different warranty restrictions as well.

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Little disappointed he didn't talk about directional tread. Not all wheels can be moved to the other side of the car without unmounting and re-mounting the tires, something not easily done at home. I have 2 sets of wheels, summers and winters. When I change over in the spring and fall I do rotation at that time, but as both sets are directional tread, I only rotate front to back, never side to side.

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My Genesis Coupe have different sizes between the front and rear tires. So I only rotate the pairs from left to right every 10k kilometers.n

Should have mentioned what to do if you have a performance setup with staggered tires.

Schools need to have classes that teach the basics of living honestly. "How to tale care of a tire" "Doing taxes" etc.

Oh. So, THAT'S what tire rotation means. I just thought they rotate the tire around the axle.

If the front and rear tires are of different size, then they can only be rotated from left to right.

How you deal with the sensor on the tires because it doesn't tell where the tires are ?

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The tires under torque stay on the same side, while the free rolling tires get crossed. With a 4X4, that means the rears go straight to the front and the fronts cross to the rear, same as a rear wheel drive vehicle, which is different than the AWD pattern. The major problem comes with DIRECTIONAL tread patterns, which is one reason I never recommended them much at the tire store. In order to rotate tires, you need to dismount and remount and rebalance 2 tires. Unless, of course, it's an AWD vehicle, then you need to dismount & mount, and rebalance all four tires. And we haven't touched on duallies, or working a full size spare into the rotation. Spoiler alert, if you have a dually, swap the rear INSIDE tires to the same side front, and take the front and move them to the rear outer, rear outer to rear inner.

I go to Costco free tire rotation and balance for the life of the tires that we bought there

Yes! Everytime the car moves.

Every time I drive

You didn’t mention directional tyres

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What about tyres that have censors in them, will it bother the computer?

Overall I agree but just to debate with nobody, I've always had very even wear on my many cars and often didn't rotate, and then just needed to buy only two at a time. Now that I can afford it as an old guy I can rotate and buy all four at once. In my long experience, both methods work. Total miles gotten out of a tire will vary this way but so much goes into tire wear that there is no way to test that without two identical cars driven the same days on the same roads in the same way. The main thing I believe is whether a car is driven aggressively or if you baby it to get every mile of life out of the tires.

Just do it when you're changing between winter and summer tires. Why didn't he say that?

Don't forget about directional tires when rotating

I see more and more cars having different size or width tires around the car. ??? Just "rotate" between the common size?

Hmm...I agree and disagree...so yes tire rotation can help extend life and even wear but it depends on the car, rims, directional tires, miles driven per year. My meaning is for example I have an 80's Porsche that has the same sized tires all around but the front rims are narrower and at times I had directional tires so I'd literally have to dismount and remount 4 tires at $100 per pop and risk rim damage. I've had rim damage happen to a set of rims that just were refurbished and then taken to costco and they scratched every single rim on the installation machine...Next tires only last about 5 years before they dry rot so if you aren't going to wear the tires out by tread life it's another thing to think about. I think on a "normal car" with non directional tires and the same tires size on all rims go for it :) but if you have directional tires, or a special use case it isn't as clear cut.

Nobody does this in Europe never heard of anyone doing this other than on HGVs maybe

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I rotated my tire once, but afterwards the car steers to the right on it own, so I had to switch them back.

The outside edges are the outside edges no matter what position they occupy.

Why doesn’t he say how often it should be done?

I never rotate. Keep the rears on until they dry rot or don't go past 6 years of age. Learn to read the tire date codes. The rear tread will last a very long time especially on FWD biased vehicle. When the fronts start to get close to the wear bars I replaced them. Having your tires balanced yearly is more useful than rotating.

Did not know about that Mom does her rotating tires once because she don't drive very much tires tent the last Almost 5 years

And get the wheels balanced while you have them off the car.

Unfortunately, staggered arrangement from the factory dictates that my car simply replaces my tires after sufficient wear.

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Didn’t say how often 🙄

Aren’t tires directional? So you would need to take them off the rim to rotate them, not just move the whole wheel?

“Inexpensive rotation appointments” ? I thought it was the law that they have to do tire rotations ?

DONT DO THIS ON A STAGGERED WHEEL WIDTH CARS ! LOL this only works with cars that have square wheels! meaning they all share the same width!

I don't because my car came with staggered tires

Or I can just swap the front tires and replace them when they wear out! You need to replace front tires only 1once if drive on decent roads in 15years lifetime of a car. So why struggle so much?

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Rotation makes no difference over several years, if you rotate you end up buying all 4 less frequently as they wear evenly, if you don’t rotate you will end up buying 2 but more frequently , over time you end up buying the same amount of tyres.