Rotating Aftermarket Rims... Advice? - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

danny67x · 04-14-2002, 06:39 PM

Hey,

I have had my 18 inch rims for a while. When I bought them, the guy told me to rotate them after 8000 miles.

It has been 8000 miles, and I was curious when he meant rotate them, does he just mean switch the back tires with the front tires? That would be real easy for me because I installed them myself anyway.

Is there anything special I have to do? I'm curious because the guy told me to take it to a place to rotate them for me, but I figured I could do it myself.

Any other tips on prolonging my tires??

Thanks

danny67x · 04-15-2002, 11:00 AM

anyone? please lol

budking686 · 04-15-2002, 11:04 AM

Take the passenger side tires and switch them and take the driver side tires and switch them...That simple...Look for bad tire wear and nicks and scratches in your rims and stuff other than that you should be all set!.

SpectraBlueCam · 04-15-2002, 11:20 AM

NO! Rotating tires is not as simple as it sounds.

The CORRECT way to rotate tires is to bring the rear tires to the front without switching the sides, and to bring the fornt tires to the rear and switching sides (i.e. front driver side to rear passenger side and front passenger side to rear driver side). If you take a look at your owners manual, that is the recommended tire rotation pattern.

budking686 · 04-15-2002, 11:37 AM

You cannot switch the sides because it will mess up your car! Right....I think that is what I was trying to say...You cannot switch sides because they are radials...Doing so would screw up your steering and possibly burn out your tranny!

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danny67x · 04-15-2002, 02:03 PM

So Am i supposed to switch the rear sides or not? Lol confused.

Should I use Spectra's advice or Bud's.

Thanks

Dan

danny67x · 04-15-2002, 02:05 PM

Actually Bud makes more sense because there are arrows on the tires telling me what way it should spin... That complicates with Spectras advice....

Spectra, are you sure?

THanks

DAn

***Phi*** · 04-15-2002, 02:24 PM

As SBC said, the typical rotaion pattern calls for a front to back swap first, then a diaginal swap (ie. front left to rear right). However, if your tires are directional (which is what the arrows mean), a front to back swap is your only choice.

SpectraBlueCam · 04-15-2002, 07:23 PM

Budking, please explain how you can burn your tranny from changing the tires from one side to another?????? Moreover, it has NOTHING whatsoever to do with the fact that they are radials - that's not even relevant to the discussion.

Danny, like I said, OPEN UP YOUR OWNERS MANUAL and read this for yourself. Since OEM tires are not directional tires, follow that pattern only if you have non-directional tires. If you do have directional tires, then just swap front to back like Phi said.

danny67x · 04-15-2002, 07:25 PM

I did read the owners manual.. you don't have to emphasize on that....

I was CURIOUS because my tires are directional, and the earlier advice you gave regarding them WOULD NOT HAVE WORKED FOR ME.

SO THE INFORMATION IN THE OWNERS MANUAL WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ACCURATE FOR ME.

To all the others that helped, thank you very much, I'll go about rotating it when I have time!

Thanks again

Dan

***EKam*** · 04-15-2002, 07:26 PM

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On 2002-04-15 20:23, SpectraBlueCam wrote:
Budking, please explain how you can burn your tranny from changing the tires from one side to another??????

Imagine all your left tires are moving forward while all your right tires are moving backwards, then that'll give you the image of a burning tranny.

Sorry but that was hilarious!!!!!!

SpectraBlueCam · 04-15-2002, 10:20 PM

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On 2002-04-15 20:26, elegantcam wrote:

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On 2002-04-15 20:23, SpectraBlueCam wrote:
Budking, please explain how you can burn your tranny from changing the tires from one side to another??????

Imagine all your left tires are moving forward while all your right tires are moving backwards, then that'll give you the image of a burning tranny.

Sorry but that was hilarious!!!!!!

Oh! I get it now! So THAT'S what directional tires mean!!

speedemn · 04-16-2002, 12:25 AM

I think SBC and Bud were sorta trying to say the same thing here. More than likely you have directional tires on your rims. So you cannot swap left to right at all. The way to rotate would be to go rear left to front left and vice versa and then rear right to front right and vice versa.

Keyser Soze · 04-16-2002, 11:34 AM

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On 2002-04-16 01:25, speedemn wrote:
I think SBC and Bud were sorta trying to say the same thing here. More than likely you have directional tires on your rims. So you cannot swap left to right at all. The way to rotate would be to go rear left to front left and vice versa and then rear right to front right and vice versa.

Yes, Speedemn is right. You have directional tires if there are arrows pointing which way they should spin. In this case you can only go from front to back, and back to front. Do not switch sides. Go from left back to left front, and vice-versa. Right back to right front, and vice-versa. That is the only way you can rotate directional tires.