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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcrware!adam
- From: adam@microware.com (Adam Goldberg)
- Subject: Re: What is current wisdom on rotating tires (tyres)?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.205942.8871@microware.com>
- Sender: news@microware.com
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- Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
- References: <1992Nov4.205441.26521@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:59:42 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- merchant@cbnews.cb.att.com (shahrukh.s.merchant) writes:
-
- >I have heard two schools of thought on whether tires should be rotated:
-
- > 1. Front to Back only, so tires that start out on one side (left or
- > right) always stay there, or:
- > 2. Front to back as well as diagonally, so that a tire ends up in all
- > 4 positions eventually.
-
- >(Forget about the complication of a spare, for the moment.)
-
- >This is for a sub-compact front-wheel drive (Toyota Tercel) with all-
- >weather radials.
-
- >What is the wisdom of the net?
-
- For Bias-ply tires, use one of the following:
-
- 1 2 1->4->5->3->2->1 (with spare)
-
- 3 4 1->4->3->2->1 (without spare)
-
- 5
-
- For radial tires (like your tercel), use either:
-
- 1->3->5->1 AND 2->4->2
-
- OR
-
- 1->3->1 AND 2->4->5->2
-
- OR
-
- 1->3->1 and 2->4->2
-
-
- ie, use cross-rotation ONLY for bias-ply tires, and DO NOT use cross-rotation
- for radials.
- --
- Adam G.
- adamg@microware.com, or ...!uunet!mcrware!adamg
- The above is not to be construed in any way as the official or unofficial
- statements of Microware, or any Microware employees.
-