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Originally Posted by BlkGS
It's funny, I had a conversation at work about this and one of my coworkers (who knew nothing about cars) was mortified I didn't rotate my tires every 5k miles. I had to explain what staggered tires were and then that RWD tires experience much more similar wear front to back than FWD cars.
It was funny. She was also mortified that sports car tires last 15k miles sometimes. I think she's gonna be a Corolla girl for life.
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My E90 and Z4 run staggard. I do rotate side to side but found the rears wear 2:1 to the fronts. I swap them side-to-side just to keep the tread wear patterns even. From about 22,000 miles to 350,000 miles I ran a square setup on the E90 and did the standard cross rotation. I would get about 35,000 to 40,000 on a set of high performance all seasons from mostly Yokohama or Michelin sets. I never found any ill effects to handling though. If you can rotate for free, it's not a bad thing to do IMO. It's not worth paying for rotations.