tire rotations??

[ucilxj]

is there any specific direction for tire rotation on an XJ? does it make a difference with a 5 tire rotation??

 

[Yucca-Man]

SOME tires are direction-specific, in other words you can only run them on the left or right sides once they are mounted on a rim. There are some around here that would tell you to never change direction of a radial tire because of some voodoo mumbo-jumbo story they got from their uncle's cousin's neighbor 40+ years ago when the first radial tires were put on their Flintstone-mobile.

That said, I rotated my BFG ATs in an X pattern (just lke the book showed) and only got some 50-60,000 miles out of them...

 

[MaXJohnson]

I think the recommended pattern is to move the rear tires straight forward and cross the front tires back to the rear. I do just the opposite, moving my fronts straight back and cross the rears forward. For anything but stock tire sizes, rotate every 5,000 miles or sooner.

Picturing A as your drivers side tire:

AB
CD

would end up as:

DC
AB

If you have a matching spare, add it to the rotation:

AB
CD
E

would end up as:

DC
AE
B

This got me 60,000 miles out of my last set of BFG MT's with enough tread left to sell the set for a hundred or two.