Miata Mailing List: August 1998, Message #90

With all due respect, I'd say there ARE different schools of thought... 
with dependencies on the task at hand and the conditions to be addressed.

Ric Allan
Cridhe Treun 97M
Loveland, Ohio

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> From: LeanAngle1@aol.com
> To: Multiple recipients of list <miata@realbig.com>
> Subject: Re: Tire Rotation
> Date: Saturday, August 01, 1998 4:43 PM
> 
> In a message dated 98-08-01 23:36:17 EDT, R-Reinhardt@TAMU.EDU writes:
> 
> << 
>  DO people still rotate tires?? 
> 
> * Bob,
> 
> Rotation is a relative term. When speaking of radial tires..the rotation
is
> from front to back (or back to front etc..) on the same side.
> 
>  I figured with the radials front to back
> 
> * Yup....or back to front same side...
> 
>  was all you could really do and since (at least in my case) the rears
>  are going to wear earlier it would be a bad choice to put those on the
>  front.
>   
> * Big misconception here...we should all have excellent tires on all four
> corners right?..Ok..with that being understood, the drive wheels should
be the
> ones with the best rubber (tread), most think it should be the other way
> around..and this is incorrect....it's always the drive wheels....
> 
> FWIW,
> 
> Aaron
> aaron@miata.net