Tire Rotation - tire shops that do it properly?

[Nidavellir]

What places have members been using that know how to rotate your CyberTruck tires properly?

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[FL370]

Discount Tire

 

[CyberVeteran]

Les Schwab and America's Tire

 

[smcnaughton829]

I just paid the $65 and did it at the local SC by me

 

[cadamo001]

My driveway. I use a 5th wheel (spare) and harbor freight badlands jack and can do the rotation in about 30 minutes or less. I do it pretty often (5k miles) and with just over 20k miles on my beast I have plenty of tread left on all 5 tires. I should be able to get 30k easy, maybe 35k miles.

 

[JUSTICEQD]

I just paid the $65 and did it at the local SC by me

Same. There was a bunch of back and forth between service center and mobile service as they couldn't decide whether or not they were going to come to me or have me go to them. Ultimately I had to go to them. Challenge then was that the lifts each had dead cybertrucks on them so they gave me a loaner for the day.

On pickup, there was also a nail they wouldn't repair as they said they don't plug. I stopped at least Discount tire on the way home and they handled.

I'll do it myself going forward as mentioned above using a badlands, etc

 

[cyberic999]

I got a lifetime rotation and balance from my local Discount Tire for $150. They said they've serviced a couple of CT. They replaced my Model Y tires last week. They had all the proper setup, so I trust they'll do the same for my CT.

 

[REM]

I don't trust anyone except Tesla at this point, and I even have to check behind them since they put one of my tires on backwards.

The workforce today isn't rewarded for quality; they are just threatened with getting it done as fast as possible.

 

[Nidavellir]

My driveway. I use a 5th wheel (spare) and harbor freight badlands jack and can do the rotation in about 30 minutes or less. I do it pretty often (5k miles) and with just over 20k miles on my beast I have plenty of tread left on all 5 tires. I should be able to get 30k easy, maybe 35k miles.

Are you rotating the way Tesla recommends in this picture or just going same side front to rear? A lot of shops only go front to rear without the crisscross. Rear tires should go to front on same side and front tires should go to rear on opposite side.
Assuming they are Non-Directional Tires and All Tires are the Same Size

 

[cadamo001]

I’m doing a standard 5 tire so spare goes on rear passenger and rear passenger moves to front passenger. Front passenger to rear driver and rear driver to front driver. Front driver becomes new spare. This way all wheels spend equal time in all locations.

 

[Nidavellir]

I’m doing a standard 5 tire so spare goes on rear passenger and rear passenger moves to front passenger. Front passenger to rear driver and rear driver to front driver. Front driver becomes new spare. This way all wheels spend equal time in all locations.

Interesting. When it comes time to buying new tires do you have to buy 5 new tires doing it this way?

 

[pi_4x4]

I use discount tire as well, tire rotation is free, but had to haggle for tire balance. One discount tire I called said $100, while the one I went to wanted to charge me $129. Anyways the second shop agreed to do it at $100.
Note that lifetime means you’re only getting about 2x out of them, then they’ll refuse to do it anymore until you buy new tires. I’m at 13k on my second rotation and they claimed me being at 5/32. Which is the lowest that they’ll rotate and balance.
The lowest treads are all on the inside of the tires. Here’s some food for thought, I think it’s because the truck auto raises up and down when parked and it’s pulling the inside of the tires. Just my 2 cents.

 

[TexasRaider]

Discount Tire

I second that - Discount Tire.
(But it has a lot to do with the actual mechanic who is working on your vehicle. If they know how to handle the vehicle.)
My local DT shop is near perfect. Whereas I had my tires rotated at another DT and they set off the security alarm when the tech slammed the vehicle down instead of slowly lowering it.

 

[DJAlan2000]

I use discount tire as well, tire rotation is free, but had to haggle for tire balance. One discount tire I called said $100, while the one I went to wanted to charge me $129. Anyways the second shop agreed to do it at $100.
Note that lifetime means you’re only getting about 2x out of them, then they’ll refuse to do it anymore until you buy new tires. I’m at 13k on my second rotation and they claimed me being at 5/32. Which is the lowest that they’ll rotate and balance.
The lowest treads are all on the inside of the tires. Here’s some food for thought, I think it’s because the truck auto raises up and down when parked and it’s pulling the inside of the tires. Just my 2 cents.

Hmmm... I got my tires rotated when they were at 4/32 (on model ylr) at discount tire... I JUST purchased new ones (35K miles on them) and they still had ALMOST 3/32... Sure, they tried to get me to get new tires at the last rotation, but I said no and they rotated them anyway, even though they were in the 'yellow' on their in house 'chart'... Now I have brand new ones!! But I was able to get 5 rotations out of the OEM ones... Oh, and you can take it in every 5000 miles (or more) if you want to... Don't have to wait for 6000-6500 like Tesla says... In fact, that's what my local American Tire/Discount Tire says I should do...

Not quite sure why you would think raising and lowering would make changes to your tires, I would hope that, if the suspension is fine, that it shouldn't be noticeable at all! But I suppose that the camber MIGHT change a bit when it's raised/lowered, but I can't see that the TINY amount it would change, when stopped, making a difference...

 

[notanormalEV]

There are several “Discount Tire” dealerships in my locale. One of them would not rotate them at all— stated because of liability. Then I drove to another a couple of miles away. It was “can do” and only $25; several rotations in its hard to not have them do it as they do outstanding work. I photocopied the rotation pattern that Tesla recommends and they follow it to a “T”. Plus another CT owner gave me some small wooden blocks to use at the lift points since the truck does not use pucks. They only use the larger capacity lifts due to the 7000 lb weight of the CT.

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