Rotating tires?
04-22-2005, 10:14 AM
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Rotating tires?
I am no car expert, but I thought when you rotate tires, the front left will go on the rear right and vice versa. But the rear tires and fornt tires are not the same size. So how would they be rotated?
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Originally Posted by rockinar
I am no car expert, but I thought when you rotate tires, the front left will go on the rear right and vice versa. But the rear tires and fornt tires are not the same size. So how would they be rotated?
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If you look on your tires there is a little arrow, this arrow indicates which way the tires should turn.
So if you took front left and put it right rear that tire would be rotating the opposite direction....this is not good.
Also if you are running different size wheels front/back thats obviously not going to fly.
So if you took front left and put it right rear that tire would be rotating the opposite direction....this is not good.
Also if you are running different size wheels front/back thats obviously not going to fly.
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On the stock Z I don't think the tires can be rotated at all. All the tires are directional, and as you already noted the fronts and backs are of different sizes. So you can not rotate unless you went from back to front in parallel which would give the correct rotational directions but give you really poor handling since the fronts will be wider than the backs.
Perhaps if you removed the tires, turned them inside out, and swap them in parallel from left to right .... why bother?
Perhaps if you removed the tires, turned them inside out, and swap them in parallel from left to right .... why bother?
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Originally Posted by rockinar
I am no car expert, but I thought when you rotate tires, the front left will go on the rear right and vice versa. But the rear tires and fornt tires are not the same size. So how would they be rotated?
what you have to do is remove the rubber from the rims. flop them to the other rim but turning them inside out, so you can keep them directionally correct. not the easiest job but well worth the end result in evening out the tire wear. if you cant do this yourself, most cant, you can easily find a place that will do it for say 20-30 bucks.
just pay attention or have them pay attention so they do not scratch your rims!!!
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