Tyre Maintenance

[Bubba]

Takin from another thread:

but all this is irrelevant if you just put them on and dont care for them with regular checks

Hey Skid, this is a genuine question; what checks, how often? All I hear from the tyre sellers is "come in every 3 months to give us more of your money" which I ignore.

Takin that I am happy enough as long as the roundy things keep roundy and not square or woobly how often should I get my tyres checked and how much $ should I be looking at (just ball park). Maybe I need to look at the sticker on my windscreen, aye?

By not having my tyres regularly serviced how much am I shortening the life span as a %? I realise that it may depend on what I have been driving on but ball park.

[Taz]

Fronts wear faster.

If they're directional swap front and back on the same side.

If not you can swap front and back plus left to right according to wear/your whim.

Can flip/pay to flip directionals on the rims if you feel the urge as well.

I guess keeping the pressure high for slower wear could be counted as maintenance too.

[Bubba]

The whole rotating tyres thing leaves me confused, so many contradictions, back to rear, clockwise but not if they are directional etc etc

Does it really matter that much?

[Taz]

It can save you money. If you don't care, you don't have to I only do it on my car which does a lot more KM's.

[TJ]

The whole rotating tyres thing leaves me confused, so many contradictions, back to rear, clockwise but not if they are directional etc etc

Does it really matter that much?

If you include the spare in rotations then you will get extra life out of the set. Five tyres wearing vs four tyres wearing out.

[Dirtydog]

have a space saver but with my car tyres when the tread gets about half way worn i swap fronts to rear otherwise i would do the rotation with spare.

i also check tyre pressure every full tank.

[skid]

Fronts wear faster.

If they're directional swap front and back on the same side.

If not you can swap front and back plus left to right according to wear/your whim.

Can flip/pay to flip directionals on the rims if you feel the urge as well.

I guess keeping the pressure high for slower wear could be counted as maintenance too.

what he said

all of the above

every single customer that leaves our shop gets told to come back every 2-3 months so we can keep an eye on thier tyres, to make sure pressures are right, they are wearing fine, checking alignment etc etc

as with you, hardly any of them come back until the tyres are so worn they need new ones

then they are shitty that thier $200-300 tyres only got 12000-15000kms and you point out that they didn't maintain thier own vehicle and if they had, then they would of got longer life out of thier tyres.


I regularly tell customers about a customer I had who had nice sticky tyres on his R8 Commodore but was only getting 12000kms out of them.
After listening to what we had to say and following our advice, the next set got 54000kms.
Massive difference


so you can take all of the advice and use it and possibly save money, or choose to leave and do nothing and possibly waste your money.

the decision is entirely with the customer