i just have to jiggle my jack under that rubber lip....then its all good.



i used to have a magnum and frequented lxforums. There was a guy had a drag magnum. 1/4 mile machine. and he worked on others cars at his home shop.

he went out to deliver a car......wanted to check one thing......no jack stands......wife found him under the car.....he passed/

true stuff you could go over there and I bet its still posted.

 

how do you guys rotate your tires anyway?

do you jack the front, put 2 jack stands in the front, jack the back, and put 2 jack stands in the back?

 

i lift the front and put a jackstand under the front side.

then lift the rear and put the other jackstand on the rear side.

I only rotate front to back so i only have to lift one side at a time.

 

The best way would be to jack up front and rear and place jack stands under the previously mentioned 4 side jack points.

Personally I don't trust balancing the car on the rear tow hook, so I just jack up one wheel at time. I can do all 5 (I put the spare on to start) in <20minutes.

 

i usually rotate my tires while i do an oil change. since the front end is already lifted for the oil change, i remove the front tires, then use my floor jack to lift a rear corner, swap the tire, then lower it again, probably within a minute. then i move onto the other rear corner.

 

just rotated my tires but i think i fucked up a little bit. my car has the Pilot® Sport A/S 3 tires. they are asymmetrical...should i cross rotate them?

as in move front tires to the rears on the same side. then move the rear left tire to the front right, and the rear right to the front left?

 

Are your tires all the same size? If they are, and they're asymmetrical, do option D.

 

i already cross rotated them. is that okay still or should i switch them back?

 

This is not okay. Rotate them to as if you did option D onto your old setup. Do not switch them as if you did option D to your current/new setup (where you've crossed them), or it would still be a waste of time. So, make sure you remember how to undo your cross rotate, then do option D.

Asymmetrical tires should not be cross rotated because their tread pattern makes them directional tires, not unidirectional. Cross rotating them will cause them to face the "wrong direction", which is not how they were intended to be used (I don't know the exact side effects, but I'm sure you could imagine they're not good (performance? safety?).

Also, if your asymmetrical tires are differently sized in the front vs. the rear, they are not rotatable.

 

they are same-sized...damn. i rotated them right the first time. i will switch them back tomorrow.

thanks

 

Before i put yoh on ignore one last comment


The size of the tires does NOT determine if the are asymmetrical/

 

no, the tire specs says that it is. i thought asymmetrical and non-direction were the same thing. some websites said you could cross rotate asymmetrical, but some sites said you can't.

 

Asymmetrical and directional are not the same thing. Directional tires need to stay on the same side (with the arrow pointing forward), asymmetrical tires just need to be mounted properly (with the "this side facing out" label facing . . . out); they will work on either side. Of course there is the rare tire which is both. I'm a fan of keeping tires on the same side regardless of whether or not they're directional, but it's personal choice.

 

Thanks for the clarification. Adversary, my apologies. You don't need to do option D per se. But as Simba pointed out, he prefers to keep the tires on the same side for rotation (and so do I, hence why I recommended option D to begin with). Since your tires are asymmetrical and not necessarily unidirectional, I think you can keep it the way you did previously did it. My bad if I caused you to redo everything lol

 

it's alright. i needed to check my brakes anyway to figure out where everything is.