DIY: Tires - when to rotate/replace

This is not called DIY. It just tells when you are supposed to change your tires.

It's amlost a useless article.

How do you replace tire without balancing? How do you swap or rotate tires with a single jack? For rotating tire, almost every garage can do this. Just bring the car to them and ask for a regular maintance, it costs just about 30 dollars, and oil change included.
 
最初由 Squall 发布
This is not called DIY. It just tells when you are supposed to change your tires.

It's amlost a useless article.

How do you replace tire without balancing? How do you swap or rotate tires with a single jack? For rotating tire, almost every garage can do this. Just bring the car to them and ask for a regular maintance, it costs just about 30 dollars, and oil change included.

You can rotate tires with a single jack. Use your spare tire. You take the first tire off and put the spare tire on. Then take the second tire off and put the first tire on. next take the spare off and put the second tire on. Do the same for another side of car.
 
最初由 Squall 发布
This is not called DIY. It just tells when you are supposed to change your tires.

It's amlost a useless article.

How do you replace tire without balancing? How do you swap or rotate tires with a single jack? For rotating tire, almost every garage can do this. Just bring the car to them and ask for a regular maintance, it costs just about 30 dollars, and oil change included.

At first, the article is *WHEN* to not *HOW* to.
And many thanks to Timothy's for answering the latter.

Fair amount of people schedule their tires' rotation/replacement by listening to the mechanics from garage or advisers from dealership.
Trust me, I've done the same many years ago after I got my first brand new car.
This article is to encourage people who has very few knowledge with his/her vehicle to have something start with.

For those people, you can *Do It Yourself* to get the information from your own vehicle and make a good judgment so you won't get unnecessary spending on it.

I believe Squall is a very knowledgeable DIYer.
For the rotation part of your question, Timothy's answer is very smart one, especially when you don't have any thing handy and you are willing to double the workload.
For me, I use wooden support to secure every corner of my vehicle.
Since I always raise my vehicle on my drive way, it's easy to get the wooden stuff.
If you wandering around, you may see a few off-wheel vehicles setting on the wooden blocks as I mentioned.
And needlessly to say a single jack (you mean jack, right?) with 4 jack stands is the easiest way to your question.

For the replacement part of your question, my knowledge is you need proper devices to do the job so it's not a DIY task.
If you or any friends here have better solution for it, please kindly share with us.
 
I am lazy:D

Plus, I never rotate my tires! cuz it's a one-way tire. I hate it :(

I don't think I will get a second car with this kind of tires!
 
You can rotate one way tire too. Just rotate front to rear at one side of car. You rotate most cars this way anyhow.
If you pay somebody to do the rotation, you may not get your money back from prolong the tire life.
Another way to do it is just stick to same kind tire. When your front tires are worn out, you change them with same kind tires. When your rear tire goes you do the rear. I will do this after I finish with my original tire from the manufacture. I am lazy too, and I don't like to change to winter tire every year. I like to get something works better in the snow. The new Goodyear all season tires seem had good review for winter driving. I will go with it.
 
YES. Good year Allegra, it's good performance in snow although it's all season tire. It's on sale in CT by the way.
 
I am thinking about TripleTred, Allegra does not have my tire size. TripleTred rank number one at Consumer report all-season and rank # 1 at tirerack all-season. It is little expensive, but if it can save me the winter tires headache, it may well worth it.
 
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