I need to rotate my tires. Is there a specific way to do it or can I just move them around. If just able to move them around, what tire goes where....

BAAAOOONNNGGG

Front to Back or Back to Front my friend. You have dirrectional tred on your tires. Rotate them any other way like right to left and your gona distroy your tires. Hope that helps :)

Edit: The following procedure is for tires that are NOT directional:

If you have a FSM there is a diagram on page MA-23 showing you the proper way to do it. I'll attempt to explain it to you though, exactly as it is detailed in the FSM. The front two wheels get moved directly back to the rear, while the driver's side rear wheel gets moved to the passenger side front and the passenger side rear wheel gets moved to the driver's side front.

Original Location -> New Location
Front Driver's Side -> Back Driver's Side
Back Driver's Side -> Front Passenger's Side
Front Passenger's Side -> Back Passenger's Side
Back Passenger's Side -> Front Driver's Side

I believe this method is refered to as a crisscross rotation (that's what I've heard people call it, anyway). I've been rotating my tires like this ever since I got my car. It definitely requires the use of a spare tire. You can just use the dougnut spare that came with the car. I use one of my old stock wheels that has a tire on it.

Originally posted by SERiouSEntRa
I need to rotate my tires. Is there a specific way to do it or can I just move them around. If just able to move them around, what tire goes where....

BAAAOOONNNGGG

Funny thing is I tend not to rotate my tires and find I only need to replace a pair at a time. Helps with the wallet that way.

Assuming you have directional tires (which pretty much all performance tires are), you can only rotate front to back unless you want to get your tires unmounted and remounted. You could just not rotate you tires and replace a pair at a time, but I like having even wear on all my tires and the same make too :)

Khiem

I didn't take that into consideration. My bad on that. My tires (Dunlop SP Sport 5000's) are asymmetric. If your tires are directional, you obviously can't follow what the FSM says without getting certain tires unmounted and remounted, as Khiem said. Sorry again.

I will edit my last post so I don't mislead anyone.

Originally posted by spdracerUT
Assuming you have directional tires (which pretty much all performance tires are), you can only rotate front to back unless you want to get your tires unmounted and remounted. You could just not rotate you tires and replace a pair at a time, but I like having even wear on all my tires and the same make too :)

Khiem