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caporajm

Member Since: 25 Jul 2005
Location: Austin, MN
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2006 Range Rover Sport Supercharged Vesuvius Orange

Rotating the tires

Has anyone rotated the tires yet? I have 10,000 miles on and I haven't heard if we need to and when. Any thoughts? RRS S/C Special Edition, Vesuvius

Fri Apr 07 2006 7:37am

Supertrotter

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Re: Rotating the tires

caporajm wrote:
Has anyone rotated the tires yet? I have 10,000 miles on and I haven't heard if we need to and when. Any thoughts?

My tyres rotate everytime I set off

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Fri Apr 07 2006 9:01am

RRUK

Member Since: 10 Jun 2005
Location: Leicestershire
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2013 Range Rover Sport Supercharged Autobiography Stornoway Grey

I have 11,500 miles and not heard of any need to rotate them L319 D4 HSE

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Fri Apr 07 2006 9:02am

Tim in Scotland

Member Since: 30 May 2005
Location: Driving along in my automobile
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2013 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Stornoway Grey

My understanding of full time 4 wheel drive cars is that wheel rotation is not necessary. In 10 years of owning various Land Rovers I have never rotated my tyres. I cannot find anything in the UK version of the owners manual about it either. I assume that either the dealer does it as part of a service ( ) or it isn't necessary. I have run tyres up to 74000 miles with out a rotation on a V8 Discovery1 and even then I only changed the tyres because at 3mm they were definately passed their best in the snow! Since then I have run my Defender up to 57000 miles on the original BFG All Terrains tyres which still had 6mm average tread depth on them (they started with 15mm) when I sold them on to somebody else who didn't take their Defender offroading.
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Fri Apr 07 2006 9:07am

RRUK

Member Since: 10 Jun 2005
Location: Leicestershire
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Does anyone know how much tread depth new tyres come with in general?

Last time I measured mine they were all at about 6mm. L319 D4 HSE

1998 110 TUM HS FFR Hard Top XD WOLF

1982 Series 3 SWB

Fri Apr 07 2006 9:09am

Tim in Scotland

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The Grizzly Claw MTRs on my Defender have 20mm on their tractor type threads, certainly don't have anywhere near that on the Sport or on the BFG ATs that I normally run the Defender on! Depends which tyre make you have I think RR 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
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Fri Apr 07 2006 9:12am

shmoogle

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On standard road tyres, "new" tread depth is normally 10mm.

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Fri Apr 07 2006 12:50pm

Supertrotter

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shmoogle wrote:
On standard road tyres, "new" tread depth is normally 10mm.

Shmoogle...you just don't get it do you?

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Fri Apr 07 2006 12:52pm

shmoogle

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Damn!!! DAMN!!!

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Fri Apr 07 2006 12:53pm

Supertrotter

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shmoogle wrote:
Damn!!! DAMN!!!

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Fri Apr 07 2006 12:54pm

Pelyma

Member Since: 29 Sep 2005
Location: Sussex
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Tyres are rotated at the service for a D3 and Freelanders, I can't imagine bling machines would be any different

Fri Apr 07 2006 12:55pm

noddy and bigears

Member Since: 05 Nov 2005
Location: hants
Posts: 116

depth check

you can always check the depth youself and if the back are lower than the fronts or vise versa you can swop them about i do

Fri Apr 07 2006 5:06pm

RRfan

Member Since: 03 Oct 2005
Location: Up North
Posts: 12

Nuts

Having had to gas axe 11 nuts off the alloys on my P38, I would strongly recommend either rotating tyres or at least loosening your nuts every 4 months or so, (gives them room to breathe)!
These long service intervals may be too far apart to prevent them seizing up.

Replacement nuts cost over 48 squid with "discount" ! RRSprt HSE TDV6 - Artic Frost, Tow pack, Privacy glass.

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Sun Apr 09 2006 11:08am

noddy and bigears

Member Since: 05 Nov 2005
Location: hants
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Re: Nuts

RRfan wrote:
Having had to gas axe 11 nuts off the alloys on my P38, I would strongly recommend either rotating tyres or at least loosening your nuts every 4 months or so, (gives them room to breathe)!
These long service intervals may be too far apart to prevent them seizing up.

Replacement nuts cost over 48 squid with "discount" !

you cant beat a good coating of copper slip

Mon Apr 10 2006 7:11pm

PJPR01

Member Since: 12 Mar 2006
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 355

2006 Range Rover Sport 4.4 V8 HSE Cairns Blue

Greetings,

Had my tires rotated at 7500 miles...recommended by the dealer to prevent "cupping". These are the stock Contis A/T tires, from what I gather, rotating them doesn't "hurt", and can help, although it's not unusual to feel a little tugging or pulling if they are wearing out due to poor alignment.

Cheers,
Paul PJPR
Cairns Blue HSE
180k Miles of Adventure

Thu Apr 13 2006 3:47am

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