A question on rotating: I've usually done my own summer/winter swaps, and changed flats etc, but I've never rotated 4 tires in place. On the Model 3 can this be done with one jack? The Rennstand looks nice but for the price I can get a second floor jack.
You can do it with one jack but I'd be pretty nervous about lifting a car as heavy as the Model-3 with a single jack high enough to be able to clear both rims on one side.
You're talking maybe 15 minutes longer for the whole job if you have to do four lifts vs. two lifts if you have a good sized garage and a quality jack that you can easily roll around.
@leisurelee BMW actually recommends against rotating the tires. I believe that their engineers feel that due to the geometry of their cars and quite different wear pattern for front vs. rear tires that you are better off running the tires down without rotating them for safety reasons (part of this is probably also related to running their cars at crazy fast speeds on the Autobahn). So, there's at least one manufacturer who recommends
against tire rotation.
@DK21 Personally there's no way I can do a full rotation in 10 minutes, and I don't know anybody who can. Just getting out my air compressor, torque wrench, breaker bar, sockets, lubing my air wrench.... all of that takes more than 10 minutes. I can do a rotation in probably 30 minutes.
You really should consider investing in the tools to do this yourself as it's not particularly hard. Most of the care is in making sure when you put the nuts back on that the wheel is tight to the hub and the nuts are going in easily so you don't cross-thread or strip out a wheel stud (and eventually that will happen to pretty much anyone even if you're careful if you do enough wheel changes).
All you need to do it yourself is a high quality low profile floor jack ($150), a breaker bar ($20), a set of good impact sockets (for future use with an air wrench when you get tired of doing it the slow way $35) and a torque wrench ($65). Oh you'll also need a set of lifting blocks designed for the Model 3, you can get some on eBay for about $40.
So you can spend about $300 and have the minimal set of tools to do it right and not pay Tesla or anyone else $175 a year to rotate your tires.
If this all seems overwhelming to you then honestly just pay Tesla to do the rotation, or just take it to any quality tire shop... you are in CA where every mom and pop shop has probably seen a Model 3 by now, just make sure they know how to lift the car properly and video the condition of the car before they do the work.
