I rotate my tires on the RAV4 and it costs me $45 each time. To me, tire rotation seems pointless as the cost to rotate them ( if you can’t do it yourself) can easily buy you new tires and have money left over.
I’m not a big fan of rotating tires except on AWD vehicles. On FWD, I use a tire depth gauge and rotate from front to rear, keeping the tires on the same side of the car so they do not change direction of rotation, when the tire tread depth on the front tires is down to about 6/32". The rears are usually at around 9/32".
First rotate front to back on the same side and on the next rotate switch the front left to rear right and front right to rear left. On a side note, I asked the dealer what happens when you have two different tire sizes on the front and back and he said that they do not rotate those tires at all.
Mechanic refused to rotate my tires because the tread was too low
I have my tires rotated every six months and at that time I have the wheels balanced too. I was wondering, would it be reasonable to pay to have an alignment done at that time too?
You rotate tires to get even wear out of the set of four. I don’t rotate tires so that I can wear them out in pairs and amortize the expense. Besides, by not rotating I can monitor the wear for any anomalies and address them. Rotating masks wear anomalies. There’s more to the reason that the industry has settled on putting the new ones on the rear. Weight = traction, and a typical FWD car ...