Rotate tires on 2006 Liberty

Do a full rotation, including the spare. When you have the pressure checked, check the spare too. If it gets low it can give you a low tire indicator light that will drive you nuts if you forget it.

Kate

"Barry Bean" wrote in message news:Xns9917886C5FCB8StemCellsOfferHope@207.14.116.130... My 2006 Liberty has a tire pressure monitoring system. Do I need to do anything different when rotating tires?

But how will the computer know whict tire is the right front after I rotate?

"Kate" wrote in news:tKRVh.1672$ snipped-for-privacy@bignews4.bellsouth.net:

Someone else posted here the other day that they read their owners manual and reprogrammed or retrained the computer when they rotated.

Maybe you use a magnet or something?

I don't have your owners manual here to tell you for sure.

Mike

Here is the link that was posted about that the other day:

innews:tKRVh.1672$ snipped-for-privacy@bignews4.bellsouth.net:

The sensor is on the valve stems. The sure solution to your problem is to have the tires dismounted and remounted on different wheels, leaving the wheels in the original location. It may cost more but it will work.

Mike Romain wrote in news:462913db$0$18184 $ snipped-for-privacy@unlimited.newshosting.com:

I missed that post. I'll recheck the manual, but I didn't see anything about the procedure under "rotate tires" or "Tire Pressure Monitoring System"

Mike Romain wrote in news:462914e0$0$18184 $ snipped-for-privacy@unlimited.newshosting.com:

Thanks.

No need to go to the trouble, according to the article referenced:

"The system identifies the location of the four mounted tires by way of a simple initial training process. The EVIC is put into a programming mode while a magnet is momentarily placed, in sequence, on each of the valve stems. A signal is sent back that identifies the LF/RF/LR/RR tire locations as well as the spare (if equipped). This is an easy process that can be done by anyone, and is explained in detail below."

Here's the link again so you can see the retraining process:

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I tried that on my Cobra. I had larger/wider tires in the back than in the front so they couldn't be rotated. The front tires wore out nearly twice as fast as the rear. I was running on Z rated tires that were pretty sticky, (Nitto 555s) but I will NEVER do that again. I personally get much better results from rotating. Not to mention more even tire wear when driving a vehicle with fairly aggressive tread such as my Jeep or the F-250. Rotating helps reduce uneven tire wear and gives you the opportunity to check them for balance.

Kate