Tire talk

[DomOfTheDead]

How about some analytical rotation?
758 miles since last rotation
5 tyre rotation including spare, trying to include traditional rotation pattern with special accomodations to excessive wear patterns

1. Passenger front move to driver front: reversing rotation direction to balance wear on left side, sharp feathered edge of lug


2. Pass rear to pass front: even wear with minor chunking from auto locker, move forward to promote heavy, even wear

3. Spare move to pass rear: even wear on lugs, rotation direction to lightly feathered edge on left side of lugs

4. Driver rear to spare: heavy chunking on rotation \ left side of lugs due to auto locker, time for a brief rest


5. Driver front to driver rear: even wear, move to rear for some auto locker abuse

 

[Corbet]

My longtime pattern is as follows

Spare > right rear
Right rear > left front
Left front > right front
Right front > left rear
Left rear > spare

This way every tire changes rotational direction every tire rotation. And they all spend equal time front and back.

 

[allen.wrench]

Gnarly man. Have you tried tires with a significantly different tread pattern to see if the wear pattern plays out the same way?

Also, I'm assuming you've weighed your truck. Like you know the weight on the front & rear axles separately. Did you do the load calcs based on max tire load at max pressure?

Idk. Just tossing out ideas to help narrow down variables.

Allen

 

[DomOfTheDead]

Gnarly man. Have you tried tires with a significantly different tread pattern to see if the wear pattern plays out the same way?

Also, I'm assuming you've weighed your truck. Like you know the weight on the front & rear axles separately. Did you do the load calcs based on max tire load at max pressure?

Idk. Just tossing out ideas to help narrow down variables.

Allen

Wear pattern is similar with other tread designs and compounds, mostly due to the locker and hard usage. I'm not upset about it, just mitigating damage

But no, never weighed it, just educated guessing. My heavy wear comment was referring to typical front tire wear patterns from the weight of the engine and steering

 

[allen.wrench]

Makes sense. Give me a few days maybe. I need to unpack a few things from "moving". Then I'll post an easy spreadsheet to calc out tire pressure based on axle weights for max load at max pressure.

Chances are educated guessing is good enough but I'm also happy to play with numbers. Go ahead you can call me a nerd. You know I like it

Allen