Simple question. When ever I buy tires,, free tire rotations are included.
Purchased, new, Subaru, AWD. Where, do you folks go, to have your tires rotated on a new car?
Why? IME experience the tread wear warranty on tires isn't worth much. That's just Subaru, or any dealer, trying to extract more unnecessary service $ from you.While I measure my tread depth and rotate as required. The OP has a Subaru. They're very fussy about any variation in tire wear so rotations need to be by the book.
I also rotate my own tires. Keeps me up to date on the tire wear, and also lets me check the brake pad wear as I am doing it. I follow the manufacturer's recommended interval.I rotate them myself. Only when they need it. Rotating every X,000 miles doesn't make sense to me, but I look for uneven wear periodically. My car has 168,000 miles and is maybe halfway through its 3rd set of tires.
Why? IME experience the tread wear warranty on tires isn't worth much.
The $ reimbursement value of your tires are very aggressively prorated (it's not linear), tire wear has to be completely even across all tires or it's considered your fault, and they all have to get to a dangerously low tread depth before the warranty might kick in. I had some tires that wore before the warranty claimed, and they were evenly worn down to 4/32" but they said I had to keep driving on them until all 4 tires were at 2/32" or less - that's unsafe IMO (see wet stopping distance below). I usually replace tires at about 4/32."
Relative wet stopping distances from 70 mph:
Rotating tires often to preserve your warranty rights is a waste of time, money and effort IMO.
- New tire 10/32" tread = 195.2 ft
- 4/32" tread = 290.0 ft
- 2/32" tread = 378.8 ft - almost twice as far! And this is the tread depth the tire company will insist you drive on before the warranty might apply.
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/tires/why-tread-life-warranties-are-next-to-useless
+1It has nothing to do with tire wear. It's all about strain on the Subaru AWD drivetrain. Not to slam Subaru but this would be true on any true AWD system. Google it, uneven tread depth on AWDF vehicles.
Same here, just boost the number of years to 50I change my own oil, rotate my own tires, and replace my own brake pads. For 44 years now.
Simple question. When ever I buy tires,, free tire rotations are included.
Purchased, new, Subaru, AWD. Where, do you folks go, to have your tires rotated on a new car?