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08-05-2015, 05:53 AM
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Senior Member
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Location: Waynesville
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Rotate Tires on Units!
I rotate my TV tires every (5000 miles)! Same with our TT tires. Members who have OEM ?? Tires sometime (Replace/Remove) more often!  Do you Rotate your RV tires?  Youroo!! 
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08-05-2015, 06:24 AM
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Phat Phrog Stunt Team
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Iowa
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Quote:
Originally Posted by youroo
I rotate my TV tires every (5000 miles)! Same with our TT tires. Members who have OEM ?? Tires sometime (Replace/Remove) more often! Do you Rotate your RV tires? Youroo!! |
I rotated the sabre tires this year.
x them side to side.
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08-05-2015, 01:58 PM
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Senior Member
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Because RV trailer tires are all subjected to the same forces all the time they probably don’t need to be rotated. However, I rotate mine from side to side every 3000-5000 miles to off-set the effects of road crown.
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08-05-2015, 02:02 PM
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Location: Concord, NC
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Never have and probably never will, see no need as has been said, they all see the same use at the same time. IMO, just a waste of my limited energy. 
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08-05-2015, 02:03 PM
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If you have a tandem or triple axle they need to be rotated for sure. The. Rear tires scrub side ways when turning and wear.
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08-05-2015, 02:25 PM
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Location: Northern KY
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The. Rear tires scrub side ways when turning and wear.
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wouldn't the most loaded axle, front or rear as the case may be scrub less then the lesser loaded?
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08-05-2015, 02:40 PM
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Mod free 5er
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Location: Concord, NC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mud yapster
If you have a tandem or triple axle they need to be rotated for sure. The. Rear tires scrub side ways when turning and wear.
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All 4 tires scrub when turning if you look closely.
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08-05-2015, 03:05 PM
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On a fiver there is no drive nor steer axle, so I see no need to rotate my tires. Both axles optimumally have the same camber and toe-in and yes both axles scrub a bit on turns.
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08-05-2015, 03:25 PM
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Cyber Phrenologist
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Southern Crescent
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No, I don't rotate the 5th wheels tires.
The mortal enemy of my tires is dry rot from lack of use, not wear. The sidewalls will have cracks long before any uneven tread wear becomes apparent.
Need more time to camp.
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08-05-2015, 03:32 PM
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Location: Moose Jaw, Sask. Canada
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I read somewhere that you never rotate radial tires from side to side as it changes the rotation and the steel belts are conformed to going one way.
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08-05-2015, 03:34 PM
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Never have, never will on any RV.
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08-05-2015, 04:22 PM
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Phat Phrog Stunt Team
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Iowa
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2 rv's in ten years and have yet to buy a tire.
Guess it must be something else.
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2011 32bhok Sabre
2015 camping "24 nights"
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08-05-2015, 04:25 PM
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Phat Phrog Stunt Team
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Iowa
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ayotte
I read somewhere that you never rotate radial tires from side to side as it changes the rotation and the steel belts are conformed to going one way.
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If you've properly rotated the tires on your car or truck two always go side to side and turn the other way.
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08 duramax tuned n modded
2011 32bhok Sabre
2015 camping "24 nights"
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08-05-2015, 04:34 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TURBS
2 rv's in ten years and have yet to buy a tire.
Guess it must be something else.
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Maybe it's your sparking personality ...
To each their own. I've had 5 RV's in my lifetime as a RV'r and have yet to rotate any tire, never had a flat, never had to replace a tire either. Nor will I start now.
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08-05-2015, 05:10 PM
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Mod free 5er
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Concord, NC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TURBS
2 rv's in ten years and have yet to buy a tire.
Guess it must be something else. TURBS
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And I doubt if both rvs together have/had 10K total on both of them together.
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08-05-2015, 05:22 PM
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Location: Texas
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I'm sure if you hardly get to travel with your RV you will not need to rotate the tires before they rot off. We use ours and we have a triple axle and the rear tire definitely wears more than the front one does. so I just rotate the back to front and front to middle and middle to back each rotation.
I also spray my tires with Areospace 303 so they never dry rot.
To each there own.
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08-05-2015, 05:28 PM
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Mod free 5er
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Concord, NC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mud yapster
I'm sure if you hardly get to travel with your RV you will not need to rotate the tires before they rot off. We use ours and we have a triple axle and the rear tire definitely wears more than the front one does. so I just rotate the back to front and front to middle and middle to back each rotation.
I also spray my tires with Areospace 303 so they never dry rot.
To each there own.
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I can understand different wear patterns on a triple axle, but not on a double axle. If I had a triple axle, I would rotate the tires as you do, I would under no circumstance switch side unless I unmounted the tires and turned them on the wheels and then switch sides. Changing direction on a radial tire is, IMO, bad news.
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08-05-2015, 05:44 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: NEPA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ayotte
I read somewhere that you never rotate radial tires from side to side as it changes the rotation and the steel belts are conformed to going one way.
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This was also told to me by a tire guy. Radials break-in or wear in going one direction, then when you move them to the other side of the vehicle, they wear faster now that they're rolling in the opposite direction from how they were broken in. I know car manufacturers will tell you to go side to side, but tire makers will not...😉
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08-05-2015, 06:16 PM
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Senior Member
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Location: Virginia
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 If I rotated tires on the camper I would be in the tire shop every other week I am there enough now that we are on a first name basis. I have bought as many as 20 tires in one year, (only bought 8 so far this year) so no I do not rotate the tires on the camper nor do I on the other 2 duel axle trailer I have. The DW says I have a car for every day of the week............
Never had a trailer tire wear or blow out & yes I have a few China bombs.......
I pull 5 different trailers & it is not unusual to be anywhere in the mid Atlantic moving one of the boys esp when they were in college. The box trailer was in Clarksville VA a couple weekends ago moving our niece & in Wilmington NC in April moving #2 son.
The wife's car was bought last Sept and she has put 35K on it so far, I have the truck, a driver Mustang (to go to work) & often (last weekend) help the boys get their tires. I try to rotate the cars tires ever 7-10K but that does not always work. I usually put 30K a year on my car too but this year I may not quite make it. 
The long and short of it is in 30 years of owning campers & other duel axle trailers I have never rotated the tires. Mine always time out before they wear out.
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