Took my car to the dealer for oil change and tire rotation. Service Mgr. advised that the there was no need to rotate the tires, although the manual does specify side to side rotation. He did mention something about switching the tires and putting on the opposite wheel, but that this would not really make a difference, and was not worth doing. Crossfire Tech or someone, can you please advise? This does not sound right to me.

 

depends if you mainly go around left or right hand bends?
Seriously I would say its more like too much hassle for them as you have to actually take the tyres off I believe.

I would say its definetly worth it due to the camber on the road. One side will always usually wear first.

 

I would rotate left to right at every 6,000 miles or every 2nd oil change!It can't hurt to rotate and see if tire life is extended on these high dollar tires!

 

My dealer just reported that it is impossible to rotate the tires. They're not directional are they?

 

You can rotate them left to right. It says so in the User Manual I believe. I also don't think they are directional, but they might be.

 

I had mine rotated yesterday and they did a good job no shake shimmy or pull (which is what I was afraid of) Tire wear seems pretty good at 8000 miles but I can see these are not 50,000 mile tires so I will rotate every service (7000-8000) miles to try to get the most miles out of them

 

I have Michelin Pilot Sport tyres on my Subaru 2.5RS THEY ARE DIRECTIONAL WHICH MEANS THEY CANT BE ROTATED. Are the Xfire tyres different ?? Still looking for lowest $$ for purchase in Florida

 

I went to my dealer's "Customer Appreciation Night" a couple of weeks ago and they were adamant: No rotation. Direct from the service manager and the top Crossfire guy.

 

Did they say why the owners manual has a rotation diagram in it?? Do they have experiance with high mileage crossfires??

 

No they didn't, beyond a perplexed look when I said the reason I was asking is that it mentioned tire rotation in the owners manual. Doesn't the OM tire rotation diagram look boilerplate, like they just forgot to take it out on the Crossfire? I'll have to check again.

 

Duh ! The Pilot Sport.s have a "Rotational arrow" so that the folks who mount them dont make a mistake. However anyone looking at the tread pattern, could figure it out.
Now,,the "all weather tires (an option) if symetrical MAY be OK to switch (side to side) Again the side wall directional arrow would be absent. Be wary of "Chrysler" they never had a performance car. and the golfers/goldchains/cigar guys never asked the questions.

 

Chrysler never had performance cars???

Ummmmm. If I remember correctly, the drag strips and NASCAR were pretty much dominated by Chrysler products in the 60s and 70s. Maybe I'm wrong and it was just a dream. :lol:

 

Well, since I DID rotate my tires right/left 1200 miles ago, this thread had me scratching my head.

Just went out and looked at the tires, and on my Pilot Sports I did NOT see a directional arrow, but did see the word 'OUTSIDE' molded into the tire wall, which as you know is not the same as a directional arrow, cause moving the tire right to left still leaves the same side out, but the tread rotating in the opposite direction.

I looked at the tire as closely as I could given the less than ideal lighting in my garage, and could not discern any clear cut directional arrow on the sidewall. If it's there, it must be a stylized arrow that's part of another image on the sidewall...or my lighting is that bad.

 

Michelin Pilot Sports are directional tires. The Pilot Sport 2 on the Crossfire are not directional but are asymmetrical. I would conclude the former are rotated front to rear on the same side (in order to keep the arrow pointing the right way). However, our PS 2 are rotated from side to side, keeping "outside" on the outside which then results in the same asymmetrical-ness (?) on the receiving side. I think the wider shoulder blocks remain on the outside.

 

Duh?? I don't see any arrows.The left to right rotation won't help much but its better than nothing

 

Thank for the clarification. PS vs PS2,,,Rotation should help, be thankful that rims are not Left and right side (as my Subaru SVX),
Only other comment is that Greman mfg's OE tire have historically put better tires to address driver use.
And for other performance use/mods perhaps we should look across the pond to see whats happening. AMG ??
P.S. "performance cars" Nascar and drag racing are off my radar.

 

Lots of neat Chrysler products over the years that shined on something other than an oval or 1/4 mile.

The 'Cudas and Challengers were very entertaining and competitive in the original Trans Am road race series.

The original Chrysler 300 in the early 60's was quite the luxo road rocket.

Dodge Stealth R/T could run with it's contemporary Mazda, Nissan, and Toyota competition.

A friend's got a really nice '99 Dodge R/T pickup that is an absolute adrenalin rush.

Currently, the Dodge Neon RT4 is an inexpensive guilty pleasure that can spank cars a heck of a lot more expensive.

Never driven a Prowler...does it go?

Oh year. Word has it the Viper can scoot along pretty well.

The SRT6 should be outrageous.