Tire rotation is essential for tire upkeep and safety. Routinely repositioning your vehicle’s tires in specific patterns such as side to side or front to back can extend the tire’s expected life. Regular tire rotations also provide the opportunity for inspection of damage, air pressure check, rebalancing, and inspect the tread depth. Tires should be rotated based on the vehicle manufacturer recommendations or every 5,000 miles. This could correspond with your vehicle’s oil change.

Why is Tire Rotation Important?

Your tires will inevitably wear over the course of time, but rotating your tires spreads the wear evenly for all four tires. Therefore, tread life is maximized with regular tire rotations. Your vehicle’s tires require specific positions based on give. For example, if you have a vehicle with front-wheel-drive then your front tires take a larger portion of the torque and friction required for turning, accelerating, and braking which leads to more wear on the tire.

Treadwear also keeps the tread depth of your tires even and therefore maintains even traction across all four tires, improves cornering, and braking performance. For all-wheel-drive tires, tire rotations can reduce wear on drive components and drivetrain. Failure to rotate tires regularly can cause a decrease in an expected useful life. If you keep applying the same force to your tire by leaving it, say, on the right front corner of the car, you're going to see deep tread damage in the typical wear pattern for that wheel position. You may see wear on the inside edge, the outside edge, feathering on your sidewalls, a cupped shape in the center of your tread or lumpy, chopped tread.

Unevenly worn tires can be dangerous, causing your vehicle to wander or pull to the side.  The cornering limit, creating enough force in a corner to break traction, will be significantly reduced which translates to poor handling when going around a curve.  At the very least, unevenly worn tires are noisy and make driving tedious. Once this happens, it has gone too far and cannot be fixed. Only a replacement will solve uneven wear issues.

Pugh’s Tire and Service Centers

Your specialists at Pugh’s Tire and Service centers can provide you with the tire rotation you need. We pride ourselves on highly motivated and carefully trained technicians. We have been a staple in Greenville, North Carolina since 1945, offering free alignment checks, brakes, suspension, driveline, oil changes, computerized engine analysis, national/fleet accounts, state inspections, and other quality services. Choose Pugh’s! Where your first price is the right price, guaranteed!