I have approximately 30 000 miles on my set of Regatta2 tires. I have never rotated them. I now find that the rear tires are becoming very noisy. I read somewhere that the noise could be due to the fact that I did not have them rotated.
Is it too late to rotate them now?
AZ
Look at the wear bars on your tires. If they are still in decent shape, rotate, but do it diagonally (reverse the rotation). I got 80K out of a set of radials, that were only rated till 50K by rotating diagnolly.
You would really have to post a picture of all 4 of the tires, showing the wear on each, for us to make a good judgement.
Are these Goodyears that came on the car? I had a set of Goodyears on my 95 Cavalier that became very noisy after several thousand miles. I forget what the style was. The wear on them was very uneven. When I replaced them with Michelins, I mentioned the odd wear pattern and asked the tire guy if there was an alignment problem, and he said it was the tires. He said the OEM tires Goodyear supplied were junk. I have now put almost as many miles on the Michelin's as when I replaced the Goodyear's, and still have plenty of tread, and no odd wearing patterns, and they are fairly quiet.
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It's possible to include photos in newsgroup posts ? I don't see any button or dialog box to do that....
A.Z.
No. The originals were Michelins. The car is a Lexus e300 which requires low profile tires. These are replacement tires. In the past I used both Michelins and Goodyear mid-price tires on my cars and had good results with both makes.
You can upload the pictures someplace and post a link to the picture.
The only bad Goodyears I've had were the OEM's when the car was new. They were good tires overall, they just had a bad habit of cupping.
I don't think it is too late to rotate them, unless the tread is really worn to where the front tires have better tread.
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