Your post is complete speculative nonsense.
1. You have absolutely no empirical evidence that rotation results in faster tire wear. This conclusion is purely your untested and unverified hypothesis from your contact patch ideas.
2. You have absolutely no empirical evidence that rotation results in more dangerous handling. This conclusion is also purely your untested and unverified hypothesis. (Yes,
hypothesis, it's not even a theory).
3. BMW (and many other vehicle manufacturers) pay a tire manufacturer to come up with a "BMW-specific" or "Tesla-specific" tire model that becomes the OEM tire. This optimizes handling and ride, but also gives the vehicle manufacturer a kickback on each tire sale. BMW (or Tesla, or anyone else) thus has a conflict of interest in recommending maintanance that would increase tire life. BMW's recommendation to not rotate the tires might be based on a tiny, non-noticeable technicality of handling superiority, but has zero basis in economic sense, and therefore cannot be trusted by the consumer, who may have different priorities.
4. Your own link to the
Car Talk guys, whom you appear to trust as if their word was gospel, states the following:
The Car Talk guys plainly state that tire rotation extends tire life, but they don't believe it's economically a net positive. This contradicts your first hypothesis.
Other trusted sources state that tire rotation is part of regular tire maintenance and extends tire life:
TireRack.com
Michelin
Discount Tire
Firestone
Goodyear
Tire Industry Association of America
US News and World Reports
5. Your own link to the
Car Talk guys also states the following:
This directly contradicts your second hypothesis where you state that the handling becomes
dangerous. That's pure nonsense. The handling may not be the pinnacle of optimum, but would be such that only a race car driver would notice that it's changed.
6. Based on the previous tear-down of these speculative hypotheses, the only root basis of an argument to not rotate tires is an economic one. This doesn't even apply because:
A. You can rotate tires yourself for free if you have the equipment.
B. If you don't have the equipment or do not want to rotate yourself, there are various tire shops that will rotate your tires for free. Discount Tire (also America's Tire in some locations) offers free rotation.
Both of those facts negate the economic argument.
Furthermore, whether you rotate or not, one thing you must do several times over the tire's lifetime is balance them. As tires wear, the weight distribution changes and the tires require rebalancing. You cannot spin-balance tires at home yourself without thousands of dollars worth of equipment, nor can you balance the tires while they're on the car. Thus, you are forced to take the car to a tire shop at several points during the tire's life to have them balance, and they must be removed from the car to do so. Rotation at that point is a no-brainer since the tires are already off the car.
7. Rotation not only extends tire life, it also
reduces noise later in the tire's life. Wear is not the only reason to rotate.
You have zero idea who I am or where my loyalties lie. This lowbrow insult is irrelevant and childish.
Take your non-rotation nonsense elsewhere. Your hypothetical musings are typical these days of those who simply believe whatever they want despite evidence that's right in front of them. You do a disservice to others with these mistaken faiths.
