Tire Rotation, which way?
 

OK the manual says criss cross rotation, which reverses the rotation of the tires and is what I was raised with.

A search on a couple of sites finds a bunch of people that say front to back rotation, (never reverse the tires)

We are talking pickup truck tires Load range E, I know all about sport car and race car tires

Re: Tire Rotation, which way?
 

All the belts get stretched in one direction, criss-crossing loosens the belts and supposedly weakens the tire. I used to do criss-cross years ago, but just do front to back now..

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The tires on all of our vehicles are directional so you have to do front to back. If you criss cross they will be rolling the wrong way.

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On the radials of yrs ago you couldn't change the direction or you would have major blowouts due to seperation.
I just had my dually tires rotated about 25000 miles ago and x-crossed them and everything seems great. I was however very concerned, guess I'm showing my age. :(

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This is what Discount tires website shows for dual-lies http://www.discounttire.com/dtcs/infoTireRotation.dos

it's basically a front to back rotation

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I usually alternate each rotation: front to back, then cris-cross, then front to back and so on. Trying to get each tire in each position for awhile. It's worked well so far. 50k miles, about 40% tread left and they all seem to be wearing evenly. :cool:

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Kinda, the outside dually goes to the inside though which changes the direction of the tires though, same as x-cross. Which was what i was worried about, but like a said, its been 25000 miles and all is well and the excess wear on the inside fronts is now even outed. :D

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Here's how I've always done it on rear-wheel drives. The illustration is from bridgestone.com.

On directionals, naturally it's front to back only.