I only rotate/switch front to back and my tires wear evenly. I thought the
roads here were bad but I've never had an alignment done on the Saturn I've
had three years and about 50,000km (approx. 30,000 miles) and my car runs
straight and doesn't wear the tires out prematurely.
"Ron Herfurth" > wrote in message
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> "micven55" > wrote in message
> lkaboutautos.com...
> > While 3000 miles is a short interval it is by no means outrageous. If
> you'd
> > like all four tires to wear evenly and not develope odd wear patterns
then
> > you should probably rotate the tires every 5000 miles or less. It's
> > preferable to have tires that have the same amount of wear at each
corner
> > of the car and then replace them 4 at a time. Also, an alignment check
> > every 15000 or when the car starts wandering wouldn't hurt.
> >
>
> 15,000 ????? with all the pot holes in Virginia if I only "checked"
> alignment every 15,000 miles I'd need new tires every 15,000 miles. I'm
> figuring I've spent more money on alignments than all other services
> combined - about $80 a throw at least once a year for 11 years almost
> exceeds the cost of both alternators, all 3 batteries, 6 tires, 2 T-fluid
> flushes, 2 radiator flushes, every oil change, a handful of gas and air
> filters, 2 sets of pads, and a break shoe in a pear tree. I've wondered if
> it would be cheaper to just align it only when I got new tires and replace
> them when they wore out from mis-alignment.
>
> The only advantage I see from rotating is all 4 will need replacing at the
> same time so there's no confusion later about how old the replacements are
> or where you got them. Would you get even wear by just rotating front to
> back (but not side to side)?
> Ron- 94 SL1 (considering a Cypress Green 06 VUE)
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