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5 directional tires. Rotation?

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Old May 30, 2008 | 11:14 PM
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Default 5 directional tires. Rotation?

Well after looking through all the options of size and tread and weight and mileage I finally narrowed my choice of tires to the Pro Comp Xtreme AT. Placed the order this morning and when I looked on the actual Pro Comp web site a few minutes ago I found I had not thought about everything.

"XTREME ALL TERRAIN TIRES, THE ONLY DIRECTIONAL ALL TERRAIN."

I bought five of these thinking it will look nice and I'd get lots of miles using the spare in the rotation. Now I need to know how do you rotate 5 directional tires? Do flip one tire everytime you rotate?
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Old May 31, 2008 | 04:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Tyner
Well after looking through all the options of size and tread and weight and mileage I finally narrowed my choice of tires to the Pro Comp Xtreme AT. Placed the order this morning and when I looked on the actual Pro Comp web site a few minutes ago I found I had not thought about everything.

"XTREME ALL TERRAIN TIRES, THE ONLY DIRECTIONAL ALL TERRAIN."

I bought five of these thinking it will look nice and I'd get lots of miles using the spare in the rotation. Now I need to know how do you rotate 5 directional tires? Do flip one tire everytime you rotate?
You are going to be very happy with those tires,I have them and I love them.
Sorry to High-jack this thread but just had to put my
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Old May 31, 2008 | 05:01 AM
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Rotate front to back, that's the only option. Don't bother with the tire swapping.

Having almost 9k on my Pro-Comp Xterrains with only 1 rotation, I can say they wear great! Don't worry yourself over the rotation.
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Old May 31, 2008 | 05:41 AM
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You will get a flat soon enough and have the 5th tire in the mix

Just do them often, every oil change
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Old May 31, 2008 | 05:46 AM
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I will suggest rotating the spare in on the passenger side and going back to front. Reason being is that your passenger side tires will wear slightly more since you may get more slippage from the right rear on hard acceleration around turns. (In theory at least)
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Old May 31, 2008 | 06:51 AM
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I saw a Jeep with four claws, and a wrangler mtr out back... I thought that was a good idea, I would hate to buy five directional tires, and have a blow-out on the side opposite of the spare... You may look funny, but they would wear even...
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Old May 31, 2008 | 07:29 AM
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There's a thread on this. Unless you plan on running a 6 tire rotation, you're stuck swapping a tire (or two) every time you rotate.

If I get directional tires, I'll probably buy 6. Yeah, I'll pay more up front, but with 6 in the rotation, I should get plenty of miles out of them.

I had thought of that but these are going to be 325s on aftermarket 18s. After thinking about in dollars the cost of flipping a tire is cheaper unless I rotate about 30 times.

You are going to be very happy with those tires,I have them and I love them.
Good to hear. As far as reviews on these tires there is not a lot of feedback out there yet.
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