Question on tire rotation

[Loren]

Be sure your alignment is good. Keep an eye on your tire pressures.

Then, just watch the front tread depth. When you get close to 1/2 tread depth, rotate front to rear. That should be all the rotating you really need to do for a mostly highway-driven car.

Do watch for uneven tire wear. You aren't likely to see it in the rear, but in the front, if you take those tight turns agressively and frequently, you could see outside edge wear. If that's happening to excess, you can get more miles out of your tires by having them flipped on the wheels before that wear reaches more than 1/2 tread depth. You can incorporate that into your rotation schedule so that you'll be doing a flip of the fronts and a front-to-rear rotation at the same time.

Rear tires on a light FWD car hardly wear at all. You just need to manage the front tire wear. Keep them from wearing too unevenly, or letting them get so far gone that they're not useful for the rear.

Resist the urge to NOT rotate your tires, as you'll then have to put new tires on the front and have rubber that is much older and harder in the rear.

To sum up: No real rotation "schedule", just do what the tires tell you to do.