Tire Rotation Miles

[Nickage87]

Rotated mine at 10k miles, on rwd it’s a must to evenly distribute wear between front and back. Did left/right swap when putting back tires on frond and straight front to back.

 

[Resist]

While Tesla recommends a front to back/back to front rotation, I think they do this for simplicity. I've always done a cross pattern rotation on my other vehicles and didn't with my first Tesla tire rotation, but I will from now on. This just takes more steps for me, to put the entire car on jack stands.

 

[Mr X]

Currently at 20,500 miles, haven’t rotated my tires yet, They still look good and no uneven wear, will probably get it done this weekend just to have something to do.

Fred

20K and no rotation yet? Dang. How slow do you drive?

 

[ebmcs03]

14k miles. Rotated once. All tires are 5/32. Which seems low to me. I drive like a granny too. These 18” OEM tires don’t seem to wear that great.

need to find some longer lasting tires when it’s time for replacing.

 

[Wennfred]

20K and no rotation yet? Dang. How slow do you drive?

Even wear all over, drives very conservative and stay around 70 - 75mph. Will get one of those tire gauges soon to measure the depth.

Fred

 

[St☰v☰]

Yes @Resist , Tesla changed it. In the May 2019 manual on page 139, they say to rotate every 10,000 to 12,000 miles.

Don’t know why it has been changed. Might be different next year.

That's interesting, my April 2019 version, page 128, says every 6,250 miles:

But a year later the March 2020 says every 10k to 12K:

And in a May 26, 20 version, it's back down to 6,250 miles:

 

[The_Observer]

A bit off topic, but for tire warranties, what about the their own tire rotation interval in order to qualify for warranty replacement/reimbursement? What should we follow?

 

[St☰v☰]

So on further investigating; it seems that each recent manual issuance has a software version noted on the cover. And this makes perfect sense because there may have been GUI or other tangible changes that weren’t covered by the previous manual version(s). So I looked at the versions I have downloaded.


The original manual I have notes 6,250 (4/19)
Version 19.16.1 shows 10,000 (6/19)
Version 19.34.1 shows 10,000 (10/19)
Version 20.4 shows 10,000 (1/20)
Version 20.20 shows 6,250 (6/20)

 

[BuggDDS]

14k miles. Rotated once. All tires are 5/32. Which seems low to me. I drive like a granny too. These 18” OEM tires don’t seem to wear that great.

need to find some longer lasting tires when it’s time for replacing.

Are most of the 20k miles highway or city? I have 23k miles and have yet to rotate

 

[sjohnsun]

Buy a tread depth gauge and rotate when you see a big wear differential. Like 2mm.

Or check out the quarter and penny trick:
https://www.discounttire.com/learn/...D_BwE&ef_id=Wmi2pQAAAU3KYz92:20200807193531:s

 

[FastGTR]

FWIW, I measured at my current mileage of ~5100 miles using a depth gauge which costs all but $3.
The front depth was just at 8.5/32nd. The rear depth was at ~7.5/32nd. These tires new come at 9/32nd.

The rear wore out ~3x faster than the front, and I have an AWD. so I rotated them. It's a 45 min job at the most. 10k seems too long for a car that wears out rears so quickly.

I could have waited for 6250mi, but that would have put me in December and I really didn't want to be out there in the cold doing this. Next one will be in spring 2021 unless I drive even less.

Don't forget to Reset TMPS so that car knows where the tires are --> Tesla DIY Geek: DIY - Tire rotation. Recommend doing it every 5k miles.

 

[AZAV8R]

In my previous car, i had issues with alignment but i never knew until i changed the tires or i went for an oil change. Given with lack of maintenance, I rather just go do the rotation at Discount Tires/America's Tires for free. BTW they will not even give you the free rotation option, they'll rather given you the $30 rotate and balance option instead. I figured it out as I was waiting for my turn at the store and i told the service advisor i only wanted free rotation. He replied with "I dont recommend it that's why i didn't offer it" But i told him to do it anyways.

Odd. I just had my local Discount Tire rotate only (no charge). Never even got out of my car.

 

[hmmwv]

Odd. I just had my local Discount Tire rotate only (no charge). Never even got out of my car.

Did they put the car on jack stand with you sitting inside?

 

[AZAV8R]

Did they put the car on jack stand with you sitting inside?

Yup. Two jacks on each side.

 

[sa012]

I have 2019 SR+ RWD and this is first car I have done my own tire rotations. I did a rotation at 7000 miles and now I'm at 14000. I checked the tread depth and all 4 tires are at 7/32. Should I still rotate? I have the OEM Michelin MXM4 Primacys. Didn't know if I should still rotate. Thanks in advance

 

[Ravire]

I have 2019 SR+ RWD and this is first car I have done my own tire rotations. I did a rotation at 7000 miles and now I'm at 14000. I checked the tread depth and all 4 tires are at 7/32. Should I still rotate? I have the OEM Michelin MXM4 Primacys. Didn't know if I should still rotate. Thanks in advance

Technically you don't rotate until theres a tread difference of like 2/32nds. The only thing is michelin wants rotations between 6-8000 miles for the warranty but its not like theyre going to watch you do them.