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BF Goodrich KO2 - 5 tyre rotation setup and frequency?

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14 Nov 2020 07:15 #229998 by Groenewald
I fitted some BF Goodrich KO2 tyres yesterday.

They are pumped to 26 PSI.

What type of 5 tyre rotation and frequency would you guys suggest?

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14 Nov 2020 09:33 #230000 by Roger Fairclough
Tyres have different jobs to do on a car. The fronts steer and do most of the braking and the rear - talking Jimny here - do the driving. Consequently they wear differently and rotating them means that you will scrub off the old wear pattern and generate a new one which, in my opinion, will shorten the life of the tyre.

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14 Nov 2020 09:59 #230004 by Soeley
The Jimny Handbook (Gen4) recommends every 6000 miles.

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14 Nov 2020 10:04 #230005 by Scimike
I understand the rationale behind tyre rotation and certainly all my previous FWD vehicles have seen a dramatic difference in the wear rate between front and rear.
But here's the thing, all my current and previous RWD vehicles have shown no or very little wear difference. Of course there are a few caveats, I don't corner hard and equally don't accelerate hard, my vehicles are well maintained (tracking etc).
My Jimny is no exception to this and I've just replaced four equally worn tyres for new, and I have never rotated the tyres.
So on my RWD vehicles I never bother with tyre rotation.
Just me and my driving style or anyone else noticed this?

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14 Nov 2020 10:17 - 14 Nov 2020 10:20 #230006 by Lambert
Having only a set of four bfg not 5 I go diagonal front to back one service and straight front to back the next service so every 9 thousand miles. Currently my tyres are all wearing evenly and have about 5mm left on after about 50000 miles on 2 cars so nominally half worn.

In the past I haven't bothered with rotation and I was seeing 2 sets of front tyres to one set of rears at around 15 ish thousand miles though that was not with bfg which are known to last almost indefinitely. This was caused by the significant use of trailers requiring more effort to stop and even with the tracking correctly set, where I go cleaning has a selection of tight left hand turns surfaced with really course tarmac which coupled with the local propensity for roundabouts I am constantly knocking the outside corner off the near side front tyre even with the bfg.

Oh and track days.

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14 Nov 2020 10:32 #230010 by Roger Fairclough
With my MG 1300 I would wear out front tyres 4 times as fast as rears. this was partly normal road use but also trials, road rallies and treasure hunts.
Vivs last two cars, a SWB Shogun - set to permanent 4wd - and an Audi Q3 Quattro wear their tyres at equal rates front to rear, so I never rotated them.

Roger

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