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Old 02-05-2019, 10:25 AM   #1
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Poll: Do you rotate the tires on your dually? Y/N

Is the added tire life worth the expense/hassle of rotating the tires on a dually?

If yes, how often and what pattern of rotation?

If no, typical life of front and rear tires.
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Old 02-05-2019, 11:47 AM   #2
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I will rotate the front tires with each other from time to time but I do not rotate the rear tires. I bought Michelins for the front and Firestone Transforce for the rear. I think the trick to better tire life on the rear (when not loaded) is to run the inner tires about 15 to 20 lbs less than the outers. Otherwise the inners will wear more.
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Old 02-05-2019, 11:50 AM   #3
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Every 6-7 K.. but I don't got fancy wheels.. so it's no big to rotate them.
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Old 02-05-2019, 11:51 AM   #4
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The owner's manual for my 2019 GMC Sierra 3500 says to rotate all the tires, so I plan to do it. The truck is new to me, so I can't say how well this will work. It doesn't seem that hard, though - just swap sides (both front and back).
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Old 02-05-2019, 12:38 PM   #5
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Never rotated any tires on the Dually's we owned. When the fronts wear out, replace them. The better the tire the longer they last, sometimes. This might be debatable, if you want longer lasting tires get a F-450 or equivalent with commercial rims and tires. In the 80's and 90's we ran a lot of Coopers on the rears and would expect 75 to 80K per set. Always at max pressure. They were towing machines not DD.
My rule, the first half of tread depth was used up in 1/3 of the miles, the second half of the tread depth got you 2/3 of the miles.

My rule #2 All rear tires must be Matching, Never put a new tire next to a used one. All 4 tires get changed together.

Rule #3 If you have 4 wheel drive all tires must be Matching
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Old 02-05-2019, 01:49 PM   #6
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Well, here's what's weird to me. The owner's manual seems to contradict itself (see attached jpg). The text on the right hand side says that DRW 3500 tires have only one approved direction of rotation... Then the diagram on the left shows switching the outer rears side to side...or are they intending that you dismount/remount the outer rear to maintain same direction of rotation.

Unless I'm missing something, which is entirely possible.
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Old 02-05-2019, 02:26 PM   #7
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That is saying the right outer is swapped with the left outer. As for the inner rears being swapped with the front, I can't do that because my inner rears are steel wheels while the fronts are aluminum. My owner's manual says something to the effect that in this case, just swap the fronts with each other, and the rear inners with each other.
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Old 02-05-2019, 02:35 PM   #8
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That is saying the right outer is swapped with the left outer. As for the inner rears being swapped with the front, I can't do that because my inner rears are steel wheels while the fronts are aluminum. My owner's manual says something to the effect that in this case, just swap the fronts with each other, and the rear inners with each other.
Yeah, I get that it's saying to swap left outer with right outer, but is it also saying that you should dismount and remount the tires to maintain the same direction of rotation as per their printed warning on the right side of the page? Or just swap left/right outers without remounting and reverse direction of travel?
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Old 02-05-2019, 02:42 PM   #9
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It sounds like it is saying "If you have asymmetrical tires...". I'll have to look at mine, but I don't think they are.
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Old 02-05-2019, 03:36 PM   #10
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I just went out and looked and my tires are not one-directional. I took another look at my owner's manual and it includes this paragraph when talking about rotating with dual rear wheels:
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Vehicles with polished forged aluminum dual wheels have three unique wheels; a front, a rear outer and a rear inner. These wheels cannot be rotated to another position, however, they can be rotated from left to right to the same position.
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Old 02-05-2019, 05:57 PM   #11
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When all six wheels were identical steel(previous trucks), I rotated. Now with the 4 Alcoa and 2 steel, I don’t rotate.
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Old 02-06-2019, 05:13 AM   #12
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Well not up to rotating time yet, but with the aluminum wheels, not likely going to happen. Just watch pressure and wear.
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Old 02-17-2019, 01:59 PM   #13
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Is the added tire life worth the expense/hassle of rotating the tires on a dually?

If yes, how often and what pattern of rotation?

If no, typical life of front and rear tires.
I do not rotate my tires on Ram 3500 Megacab dually
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Old 02-17-2019, 03:47 PM   #14
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No! - Four sets.
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Old 02-17-2019, 04:00 PM   #15
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I rotate as suggested in the manual. rears across and fronts across. With steel and alum wheels on back cant rotate front to back
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Old 02-17-2019, 05:11 PM   #16
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Rotated approximately every 5-6k miles on both duallies. The '05 had all steel wheels which made it an easy task. The '13 had aluminum & steel, had them dismounted/remounted by Discount Tire. Both had Michelin tires & got 70k+ out of all sets on both trucks. The tires stated 80psi for max load, but door sticker stated 70 front & 65 on both rears which is what I ran loaded/unloaded with 16.5k 5th wheel, all 6 wore evenly & never a tire failure on the tv.
I also rotated the tires on the 5th wheel, right to left front to rear, annually when packing the bearings.
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Old 02-21-2019, 08:22 AM   #17
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I rotate my tires once a year.
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Old 02-21-2019, 05:19 PM   #18
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I'm almost fanatical about tires so rotate, maintain pressures and so on by the book. I bought the set that's on the truck right now from Firestone and the shop rotates for free. My dually is also a 4X4 so tire rotation is even more important as 4x4 front tires tend to wear outside edges a bit more than a rear wheel drive truck.
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Old 02-21-2019, 06:20 PM   #19
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Yes, However, the manual sez to swap them left to right as there are three are different rims. When I bought my truck it had 22K on it and the fronts were rounding off a bit. I paid a local tire store to break the front and outer rears down and remount/balance them ($80) After about 16K more miles the rears are about level and the fronts are beginning to show some rounding.

Now was it worth it? Dunno as I will likely need 6 tires at the same time now vs. 2 and then 4 later on. But they are all pretty level right now.
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