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Old Sep 9, 2005 | 05:50 AM
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Rotate your tires more often too,like around 4000 miles. My rears have benn wearing faster which is the norm for RWD but the fronts can wear a bit quicker if you corner on them hard frequently.
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Old Sep 9, 2005 | 06:38 AM
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yea. i think im just gonna go ahead and do it after my trip to nyc this weekend..
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Old Sep 9, 2005 | 06:41 AM
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Originally Posted by lee
yea. i think im just gonna go ahead and do it after my trip to nyc this weekend..
If it is starting to wear already, try to rotate them before your trip and it will probably even out. this way you fix the problem before you make any more variations bewteen the front and rear
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Old Sep 9, 2005 | 06:45 AM
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im not driving down there, my roomate is

but youre right, i need to do it asap
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Old Sep 9, 2005 | 07:30 AM
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I've heard a lot of places that if you want to get good milage out of your mud tires that you need to rotate and balance every 3000 miles. This is so no wear patters appear, and so you make sure that the tires are always balanced, so they aren't out of balance and wearing wired because of it.
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Old Sep 9, 2005 | 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by lee
im confused.

you all seem to disagree with one another!

i guess ill just have em rotated and see what happens.

We LOVE to disagree, dintcha know? Me and Beartracker had a major egofight over tires not long ago, but we're still friends.

Actually, when you get different answers that all make reasonable sense, it generally means different people have different results.

On my vehicles the fronts tend to wear out much sooner, and the fronts wear the shoulders off quicker - my daily drive is a curvy mountain road and I push it a bit. My GF tires wear dead flat, evenly front and rear - her daily commute is 65 miles each way on the only long flat straight stretch of Interstate in Oregon...
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Old Sep 9, 2005 | 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Flamedx4
We LOVE to disagree, dintcha know? Me and Beartracker had a major egofight over tires not long ago, but we're still friends.

Actually, when you get different answers that all make reasonable sense, it generally means different people have different results.

On my vehicles the fronts tend to wear out much sooner, and the fronts wear the shoulders off quicker - my daily drive is a curvy mountain road and I push it a bit. My GF tires wear dead flat, evenly front and rear - her daily commute is 65 miles each way on the only long flat straight stretch of Interstate in Oregon...
Flamedx4, now there you go spoiling everything because this time I agree with you,Lol.
People drive different and the area can make a big difference. Here in south central WV where I live is nothing but mountains and some real bad hairpin curves. You drive on great pavement for a while and then on hard limestone gravel or dirt all the time, Really hard on any tires.
I can guarantee you that the front will wear much faster than the rear and the best thing you can do around here is check your tire preasure all the time
And rotate , rotate often! Mike
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