Ricktwuhk

If your wheel matches, and a simple sensor is all you need, it's foolish NOT to rotate it in as you add 20% to the life of your tires. When it's time to replace them, you can either buy 5 new ones or buy 4 and use the best old tire for a spare - since a spare is supposed to take you 50 miles or less at 50 mph or less until you repair the old tire. If I didn't have to buy a new wheel and a sensor I would have done this.

Experts will tell you that if you rotate every 7,500 miles the tires will still be close enough in size that the truck is fine.

pat247

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I don't use the spare in the rotation but I do drop it, clean it, and check the air pressure as I do all of them during the process. It's a good time to thoroughly clean and wax the front and back of all the wheels while they are off the truck. I use the rotation method shown in the owners manual, backs go straight forward, fronts crisscross to the back. Using this method a tire will eventually land on all four corners of the truck and all four tires should wear evenly and the spare will be pristine for when you need it. I rotate the tires every 5000 miles as recommended by my local ford dealer.

RDFTS

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I don't rotate in the spare either and bo-hoo to the 20% loss. The faster I wear these BFG KO's out, the faster I can get the KO2's.


The TRR last year chunked up my rears so good that now those are my 2 spares and those tires were less than a month old. LOL

cbcgeneral

That's the way I look at it too. The more stock **** that breaks or wears out the more aftermarket upgrades I replace it with. It just seems like less of a waste of money that way. At least that's what I tell myself. Lol.