ON ROTATION

摘要

Tires are going to be pulled early because of irregular wear for many years to come - especially now that engineers have designed them to get such long wear. That may sound like a contradiction, but the truth is this: once upon a time, tires generally wore out long before external factors such as worn suspension components and misalignment affected tread wear. Longer lasting rubber compounds and more resilient tread designs keep tires from wearing out as quickly as they once did, and forces that cause irregular tread wear now have enough time to work their unwanted magic on a tire's tread. The number one thing a commercial tire tech can do to equalize this situation is to spot irregular tread wear patterns as they form and rotate the tires accordingly until the cause of the problem can be identified and corrected.