I can't for the life of me think why.This would almost certainly increase tire life.
Maybe give this a try. Our other car wears its front tires on the inside edges due to the design of the front-wheel-drive suspension. The alignment is correct, so there's nothing that I can do to prevent this uneven wear. If I leave these tires on the front, the wear limit would be reached along the inside edges while plenty of tread remains across the rest of the tire, whereas if I rotate these tires to the rear, wear occurs across the deepest tread before starting on the worn inside edges. This gives me much longer tire life with all 4 tires wearing out at about the same tire as opposed to the front two wearing out very early with the rears lasting so long that they would need to be replaced due to old age rather than tread wear.FrancisJeffries said:I can't for the life of me think why.This would almost certainly increase tire life.
No, but I'm suggesting it might be collusion with the tire manufacturers to make us buy more tires! :lol:Are you saying that this is hogwash?
Fair enough, but the i3 has different tire sizes front and rear, so you can't do the front/rear switch. Swapping them side-to-side suffers from the taper problem I mentioned in my earlier post, and, worse, I'd have to swap the rears too because my wheels are handed. Tiresome! (And I couldn't have done that joke if I'd used my accustomed UK spelling of tyres.)...whereas if I rotate these tires to the rear, wear occurs across the deepest tread before starting on the worn inside edges. This gives me much longer tire life with all 4 tires wearing out at about the same time as opposed to the front two wearing out very early with the rears lasting so long that they would need to be replaced due to old age rather than tread wear
That's true for all i3's except BEV's with 427 wheels (e.g., the O.P.'s car). For some odd reason, BMW decided that BEV's with 427 wheels could have identical wheels and tires all around.FrancisJeffries said:Fair enough, but the i3 has different tire sizes front and rear, so you can't do the front/rear switch.
I don't think swapping side-to-side helps with wear at all and might hurt as you point out. But I've swapped side-to-side because I prefer the look of the 429 wheels when they appear to be rotating forward when the car is moving forward (i.e., just like the 428 wheels).FrancisJeffries said:Swapping them side-to-side suffers from the taper problem I mentioned in my earlier post, and, worse, I'd have to swap the rears too because my wheels are handed.
A good reason to stick with the superior British spelling, I'd sayFrancisJeffries said:Tiresome! (And I couldn't have done that joke if I'd used my accustomed UK spelling of tyres.)
I drive each of our cars only 6 months each year and then not very much during that 6 months. So if the i3 tires wear as well as the original equipment Bridgestones on our Honda Insight hybrid, our i3 tires could begin to dry rot before they wear out. Hopefully, not, because it just doesn't feel right to replace tires with a decent amount of tread remaining.FrancisJeffries said:( But I've never been troubled by tires dying of old age, either!)
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