Tire Rotation - how you getting it done?

[kdn]

'm with Chris P on this. At my age I let a professional work on my vehicles. I use my phone and schedule the work to be done at my house. I think it was $59 plus tax for them to come out and rotate the tires in my driveway. Why would you want anyone else to work on your car? For the younger owners....... go for it.

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[TyPope]

The Cyberbeast is normally Front-Wheel Drive (when not accelerating or regen braking hard), the Dual Motor is normally RWD. The front wheels do most of the steering too. So it makes sense that the Cyberbeast front tires normally wear faster. The exception to this would be if the owner was constantly doing insane acceleration and very little cruising along at steady speeds.

In my experience, and from reading tire wear reports from other Dual Motor owners, most Dual Motor owners won't need to rotate tires. Even some Cyberbeast owners might not need regular rotations (depending upon usage patterns). But everyone should have a tire tread depth gauge so they can periodically monitor tread wear patterns. They are cheap and pretty easy to use:

Amazon.com: Tire Tread Deapth Guage, Tyre Depth Guage Meassurement Tools 32nds Color Coded Tire Thread Guage Tool for Cars Trucks(Double Color) : Automotive

By taking left edge, right edge and tread center measurements after a few thousand miles of driving with consistent and carefully maintained tire pressures, you can determine if that tire pressure is suitable for your particular use case. A deeper tread in the center indicates pressures too low. It has to do with how much cornering your driving involves and how much gear, passengers and other weight you typically carry around with you.

By taking careful measurements around the center of the tread, you can measure how well your tires were manufactured and balanced. Variations here indicate the tread is not wearing evenly all the way around. Unless this is caused by poor balancing, there is no way to compensate for this. I buy quality tires, and keep them balanced, so I've never had this problem.

If tread depth measures very close to the same from tire to tire, and from inner to outer edges, there is no need to rotate them. If the only variation is from center to edge, you need to adjust your tire pressure.

Well said. While I DO, occasionally, make cars very small in my rear view camera, I typically drive calmly and in traffic. My wear pattern tells me that rotating my tires may not be worth the effort. I won't be extending their life much if at all. I used my digital caliper with depth gauge and hit multiple spots on my tire for the numbers I gave.

Thanks for the reminder about how tire pressure can affect tread wear. While it's obvious, I don't think about it much. Tire pressure and weight are related. So, unless we all weigh the same and carry exactly the same stuff, our optimal tire pressure for tread health differs.

 

[HaulingAss]

'm with Chris P on this. At my age I let a professional work on my vehicles. I use my phone and schedule the work to be done at my house. I think it was $59 plus tax for them to come out and rotate the tires in my driveway. Why would you want anyone else to work on your car? For the younger owners....... go for it.

I'm 61 years old and there are a few reasons I do all tire work I'm set up to do (summer/winter tire swaps, rotations, tread wear inspections and maintaining my pressures).

1) Quality of work. I started doing my own tires on my motorcycles, before I even owned a car, because my life was on the line. Motorcycle tire techs were pretty good back then, but I figured if I were to die on my motorcycle due to a tire issue, I wanted it to be MY mistake. It gave me more confidence when I rode to know I had inspected everything myself. In the auto tire industry, the amount of carelessness and incompetence is astounding. This is a development that began around 25 years ago, from what I can tell. Because tires are so critical to a vehicle's performance and safety, I'm loathe to let unknown others do it. Plus, I've had two vehicles damaged (both seriously) at a local discount tire store due to poorly trained/careless tire jockeys. And the tire pressures are almost never correct afterwords, so I still have to adjust them myself. Tesla techs seem better than average, but not perfect.

2) Availability. Here in the PNW, winter conditions tend to come on suddenly, without much forewarning. That means I could need to do my winter tire swaps right when the local tire shops are overwhelmed by people wanting winter tire installations.

3) Time savings. It's quicker for me to do it myself than wait for a tire shop to do the rotation/swap. Plus, I still have to pack up the seasonal tires to the shop and vice versa.

The cost doesn't really matter to me, if there were true professionals available, and it was convenient, I would just let them do it. Unfortunately, the cost race to the bottom means true competence is low. Even many more expensive shops have poorly trained tire techs because business owners look at tire work as simple, low skilled, lowbrow positions.

The most skilled tire professionals I've ever encountered were independent mom and pop operations in Mexico. In more rural areas they operated out of their house (often on a dirt pad in front of a tiny one car garage). Tires cost a lot for Mexicans without high-paying jobs, so they value tire techs more highly, not that tire jockeys in Mexico make a lot of money, they just take more pride in their work and tend to stick with it for many years, their entire lives in many instances.

 

[Bill Hull]

Had mine rotated per Owners manual at the tesla service center..$65.
As soon as I got home I walked around the truck and noticed the technician forgot to reinstall my after market lug nut caps..had to immediately return in massive traffic to get it corrected by service Mgr himself in photo

 

[DR. LOPEZ]

$65 Tesla in NY rotated mine. Took 30 minutes.

 

[NotMyTruck]

What are these Red/black pucks? Are they for placement between truck/jack?

Yes. It’s an opinion. Not a popular opinion.

 

[CapheDa]

My local tire shop does it for free every time. Community Tire in Brea, Orange County, California. They have one lift that can handle it so I always call ahead.

 

[Jason B]

I drive pretty aggressive and the fronts definitely are wearing down faster I think do to quite a few launch ? mode sequences, lol. 6k miles and definitely need rotated!

 

[Rache2]

Appreciate the reply. Mavis doesn’t charge for rotating the tires, and at 70 years of age, I’d rather not get hurt doing it myself. I rebuilt my 1972 Ford Pinto decades ago, and used to service all my cars myself years ago, but now …

I have never rotated tires on my Teslas. Measurements and balance are so precise these days. i do check for differences in wear but so far have found none. i have no data to prove it not necessary but I'd like to see some proof that it is.

 

[DrShah]

I get them done for free at Discount Tire, I will buy my new set through them when the time comes.

 

[The_Thing]

Go to Discount Tire. Best customer service! Rotation is $80

It's $60 at the Tesla service center.

 

[DrShah]

Discount Tire in south florida rotates for free, they didn’t charge me anything.

 

[Goog]

How often should the CT tires be rotated?
Miles?
Wear?

 

[DrShah]

How often should the CT tires be rotated?
Miles?
Wear?

I do every 6,000 miles, I drive 2400-3000 miles a month ?.

 

[bigbangbadaboom]

did mine for free americas tires
I also got their tire warranty just in case anything happened to these oem ones

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