Tires rotated. Now Noisy

[EricM]

Sounds like you could get a lot more miles out of your tires if you did rotate them. I know not eveyone wants to run tires to the bitter end though. New rubber is more grippy for sure.

You wight want to up your front tire pressure a bit if the shoulders are wearing fast. Not for wear necessarily, but it'll perform better if the center of the tire is also sharing the load equally.

 

[pat247]

I rotate tires every 5k miles give or take a few hundred, rears foreward fronts criscross. I get roughly 55k miles per set and when replaced each tire is within 1-2 mm tread depth of the others. Raptor has 182k miles now and 12k on 4th set of tires. 65k on oem ko's, 50k on ko2's(2 sets), now on km3's.

 

[The Car Stereo Company]

yeah...... my rears go about 4 times faster than my fronts, but im the exception here

 

[shigman]

yeah...... my rears go about 4 times faster than my fronts, but im the exception here

lol are there burnouts included in that, hauling max payload all the time?

 

[The Car Stereo Company]

lol are there burnouts included in that, hauling max payload all the time?

drifting at 95mph on some dirt trails in wyoming and colorado.
bfg ko2 = 254 miles. rotated.
falken wildpeaks at3w = 312 miles. rotated.
nitto trailgrapplers = 273 miles. rotated.
ridge grapplers = 260 miles. rotated
etc etc etc. i tested tires for a tire manufacturer for a couple years. burned through 17 sets of tires in one year.

 

[shigman]

drifting at 95mph on some dirt trails in wyoming and colorado.
bfg ko2 = 254 miles. rotated.
falken wildpeaks at3w = 312 miles. rotated.
nitto trailgrapplers = 273 miles. rotated.
ridge grapplers = 260 miles. rotated
etc etc etc. i tested tires for a tire manufacturer for a couple years. burned through 17 sets of tires in one year.

Ah..ok. Question. How long do KO2s last driving aggressively on dirt/gravel only? Maybe not drifting at 95, but properly aggressive. Zero on road miles. My Raptor is my DD so I’d never get close to knowing that…lol. 500 miles…?

 

[The Car Stereo Company]

Ah..ok. Question. How long do KO2s last driving aggressively on dirt/gravel only? Maybe not drifting at 95, but properly aggressive. Zero on road miles. My Raptor is my DD so I’d never get close to knowing that…lol. 500 miles…?

just depends on tire spin. thats the main factor. theres a road down in colorado springs behind the broadmoor hotel called old stage rd. its where i did most of my testing. hard packed dirt road with some rocks. mostly drifting (almost every turn) at around 40-50mph. 11 miles up a mountain road to the lookout (where you can see all of colorado springs) and 11 miles down. average for a car is 45 min or more. my fastest run was 11 min. the bfg ko2 lasted two trips one night. tire rotation, two trips the next night, and done. include my street/highway drive to get to the dirt road and back was 20-25 miles and a drive to work. i dont know what kind of driver you are, but if you are constantly drifting turns, (even at slower speeds) expect low miles. if you are going fast, but not (or minimal) drifting you should be able to get a couple thousand miles out of them.

 

[shigman]

Yeah I’m like 30 miles from the nearest dirt road that isn’t private….my poor Raptor spends most of its time in stop and go traffic with occasional events and trips to CO where it ends up being in 4Low. No high speed dirt road drifts often unfortunately. Wet concrete is my only hope…lol

 

[rschap1]

Rolling in a different direction can REALLY add to noise level.
Just experienced this myself.
Most of this due to my shocks being totally blown out and doing nothing at all of value as a shock anymore.
I swapped my front tires from side to side while doing brakes last week.
The right front was REALLY chopped from wheel hop caused by the worn shock.
Putting it on the left side and rotating in the opposite direction has it sound like I am riding on Super Scooper paddle tires.
I have been used to the MTs getting louder as they wear, but it was a HUGE increase when switching sides and direction.

 

[BYKR GUY]

You are wearing them the other way now, cutting the high areas of tread and scalloped areas down. I can see them making more noise for a while in that case.

Put them back the way they were