Endless opinion debate.
Tires-on your car I expect almost all of us have radials and front wheel drive. Warranty,
it says, you are sold a 70,000 mile warranty. Reality, if you read the deal, it is based on list price and is prorated base on wear. No one pays list price and the prorated warranty means any value expires long before the stated 70,000.
Front wheel drive. The front tires carry more weight, wear from engine power, wear from steering, wear from braking-the due to the fact that when you brake the weight shifts forward-you are opposing momentum, and often due to impacts etc the front tires are no longer properly aligned.
Nitrogen-nitrogen as a gas has less volume change, pressure change than the mix we call air. You pay extra for nitrogen. You take your car in for service and they top off the pressure. OOPS did they add nitrogen or the air from the hose laying around. You get a flat. You call ????? service. They plug the tire, the nitrogen has leaked out, they will fill it with air. You cannot get all the air out and refill it with nitrogen. It does work-IF.
Rotating your tires.
OPINION-mine. I have my tires rotated front to back and then back to front keeping the tire on the same side of the car. The typical pattern where you cross from side to side,
you case the cross over tire to revolve in the opposite direction from what it was doing.
It can cause failure. It used to be more common than today but I've had tires fail due to this.
Tires have gotten far more expensive than they used to be. They are also far better for handling, service life etc. In the 60's and 70's 20,000 miles was typical. Today 50,000 plus.
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