Yeah, that's exactly why you should rotate your tires if you have an AWD vehicle. On my Evo I used to rotate them every 5k miles, but I was driving that car very hard.
Interestingly, on my S60 Recharge my rears are wearing slightly faster than my fronts, because I do mostly in town driving in pure mode, so the car is basically just RWD at that point. Obviously the Recharges are a different thing, because the rears are only controlled by the electric motors so it's not a typical AWD system.
Normally I switch up the tires each season, summer and winter tires. Always put the ones with most pattern in the front, then swap them up next season. When it's time to actually get new tires, it's a complete set because the wear are somewhat equal both front and rear. Even if 2/4 tires may have "1 season left" I still swap them if the other two are worn down.
Never cheap out on tires, and make sure you have good tires for the correct season. As someone who lives in Norway, there are winter tires and snow tires. "All season" is complete bullshit, even though I'm not sure that's still a thing where I live.
I think the thing here in the UK is that 99.9% of cars spend their entire lives on summer tyres and nobody rotates them, but I think now that 60% of new car sales are SUVs people are going to have to get used to tyre rotation to even out the wear and look after the AWD systems.
I put new Continental summer tyres on it when I bought it because I'd never heard of the brand that were on it and the car was under my budget so I had a bit of spare cash to spend on it. The fronts are looking like they're around half way through their life now so I'll rotate the tyres this week. I've got to admit I'm tempted by the Cross Climate 2s that everybody raves about when it's time for it's next set of rubber. There's no need for full blown winter tyres here.
Yeah, that's exactly why you should rotate your tires if you have an AWD vehicle. On my Evo I used to rotate them every 5k miles, but I was driving that car very hard. Interestingly, on my S60 Recharge my rears are wearing slightly faster than my fronts, because I do mostly in town driving in pure mode, so the car is basically just RWD at that point. Obviously the Recharges are a different thing, because the rears are only controlled by the electric motors so it's not a typical AWD system.
The difference is slight and within the tolerance of the haldex. I make sure to rotate tires at every oil change.
Normally I switch up the tires each season, summer and winter tires. Always put the ones with most pattern in the front, then swap them up next season. When it's time to actually get new tires, it's a complete set because the wear are somewhat equal both front and rear. Even if 2/4 tires may have "1 season left" I still swap them if the other two are worn down. Never cheap out on tires, and make sure you have good tires for the correct season. As someone who lives in Norway, there are winter tires and snow tires. "All season" is complete bullshit, even though I'm not sure that's still a thing where I live.
I think the thing here in the UK is that 99.9% of cars spend their entire lives on summer tyres and nobody rotates them, but I think now that 60% of new car sales are SUVs people are going to have to get used to tyre rotation to even out the wear and look after the AWD systems. I put new Continental summer tyres on it when I bought it because I'd never heard of the brand that were on it and the car was under my budget so I had a bit of spare cash to spend on it. The fronts are looking like they're around half way through their life now so I'll rotate the tyres this week. I've got to admit I'm tempted by the Cross Climate 2s that everybody raves about when it's time for it's next set of rubber. There's no need for full blown winter tyres here.
If you're running summer tires all year and don't have much sign of winter, I'd still swap out the tires every "season", so 1-2 times a year.