Xarnette15 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Hello, So I have owned my car for about 3 months now. Put on about 2K miles. I am planning to change my oil here in the next few months / few thousand miles. Purchased w. 51K right at 53K. My question deals with tire rotation. Please bear with me as this is the first car I have personally owned. Before this I drove a dodge dakota, ford explorer, chevy blazer. All vehicles I never gave much TLC. Now things have changed with the lexus. So I would like to do things right. When it comes to tire rotation do most of you follow your rotation schedule at each oil change? Also the tires that came with the car are Nankang. I believe that these are directional. Should I stick to rotation every oil change? Is there anything about these tires (nankang) that i should know? Sorry for the simplistic questions. I just hate asking a mechanic. "Yeah we are going to have to pull those baby's off coat them four times in petroleum jelly, balance a marble on them & they will be ready to go".......ok slight exaggeration but you get my point. Thanks for the insight. Regards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillsndale Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 Glad to hear you are enjoying your Lex! Lexus recommends rotating every 7500 mi. but it is not super critical to be done exactly on time. Rotating them evens out the wear and makes the tires last longer. If you look at the side of your tires, if they are directional they will have an arrow or pointer showing the direction of rotation when driving. (of course don't try to look at them while you are driving, you might get a sore neck or bugs in your hair or something) :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRK Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Radials get rotated front to back - no crossover. In other words, don't change the rolling direction once they have taken a set. Lots of tire guys will tell you "modern tires can change direction, it's no problem". No they can't - you'll get a vibration just like an imbalance and it will never go away. If you have to go side to side, then the tires should be dismounted and installed so that the direction does not change, when they are switched to the other side - the left side tire outer side wall becomes the inner on the right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xarnette15 Posted June 15, 2009 Author Share Posted June 15, 2009 So that being said a proper rotation, even with these directional tires would be front left --> rear left rear left --> front left front right --> rear right rear right --> front right. Any info on these nankang tires? From what I read they are fairly cheap-o tires. I have yet to drive a GS on any other tires, so I have nothing to judge against...but they seem fine to me. Im curious to see the difference when I do replace them. Thanks for the advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRK Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 Your sequence is correct. Nankang tires are terrible. Buddy of mine peeled a few off the front axle of the company semi-tractor he drives, until he told the boss he would NOT drive the truck unless quality NA made tires were installed. Absolute junk tires. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xarnette15 Posted June 16, 2009 Author Share Posted June 16, 2009 Your sequence is correct.Nankang tires are terrible. Buddy of mine peeled a few off the front axle of the company semi-tractor he drives, until he told the boss he would NOT drive the truck unless quality NA made tires were installed. Absolute junk tires. Damn I would love to avoid a situation like that. Looks like when time comes to replace them I will avoid them. Regards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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