Date:         Wed, 15 May 2002 15:10:02 -0700
Reply-To:     Bill Kasper <dragonlist@IPMTS.UCSC.EDU>
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From:         Bill Kasper <dragonlist@IPMTS.UCSC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Tire rotation and placement, oops.
Comments: To: "Fitz-Randolph, Douglas" <Doug@BEACONTEL.TV>
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put the better tires on the front...front tires wear out faster...but
make sure they're all within a couple of mm of each other (that's about
a tenth of an inch in the old-style) or you might just make your vc
permanently tight...

i came close to doing the same thing, but instead of numbering the tires
i just wrote out the rotation pattern in my carbook...now it doesn't
matter where i am in the flow of things, i just follow the pattern.
everything moves up one position from the current status.

one other thing:  any objection to me posting the actual text of your
instruction "image" at your spare carrier website?  including my mods?
for the archives...

take care, doug.

bill


On Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at 02:53 , Fitz-Randolph, Douglas wrote:

> Hi everyone. I did something really stupid when I put on my snow tires
> last
> fall. Rather than mark my summer tires with the positions from which I
> removed them - i.e. RR, LF, etc. - and then follow the usual rotation
> pattern, I numbered them 1 through 5. Why? Well, I don't know - I really
> can't imagine what I was thinking at the time. So needless to say, 6
> months
> go by and I can't remember where I started the numbers - was 1 the
> spare, or
> was 5? Duh! Anyhow, I put the most worn of the 5 in the spare location,
> which left me with two tires about equally worn, a little more worn
> than the
> other two, which are also about equally worn. So... where should the
> most
> worn tires go - front or rear - so that come fall perhaps all 4 will
> all be
> worn about the same? Phrased another way, which tires wear out faster -
> front or rear? Oh... '90 Syncro with a pretty tight VC. Thanks!!
>
> Doug Fitz-Randolph
> Freeport, ME
>