[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy

LOL! on rotating tires on a front wheel drive car! I have driven front wheel drive cars since 1980, and never rotated tires once. All cars were driven at least 120K-140K miles.

Fact: front wheel drive cars front tires wear out faster than the rear wheel tires, by a ratio of between 3 to 5 x.
Fact: you can't change that wear ratio by rotating tires.

Rotating tires just evens out the wear so that you buy 4 new tires at the same time.
Not rotating tires means that you wear out the front tires, and replace only the front tires.

The killer is all wheel drive all the time. The front and rear do not wear at the same rate due to turning, and to any differential issues in keeping the turning rates identical. So frequent rotation is highly recommended. I did not rotate the subaru tires frequently enough, and never got more than 40K miles out of a 60K rated tire, either front or back.

I do not recommend driving all wheel drive cars in florida

So, you wore out a lot of tires?

I have never worn out tire since I was 21. I had to replace them due to age and cracks in side walls.

Fact: there reason some are coaches and some are mechanics.

[bob47]

Originally Posted by SugarBear

Front tire wear exceeding the rear tires has to do with not balancing the tires, not the traffic circles.
If you think about it, the front tires are rotating on an axis going around a turn whilst the rear tires are still trying to go straight around the turn.

This is not exactly true. Steering linkage is designed so that all four tires are following the circumference of a circle and the four circles have different radii. If you want to understand how this works, google "Ackermann steering geometry".