Toyota Tire Rotation Service Near Glendale, AZ

As you drive your new Toyota RAV4 or Camry off the lot, you enjoy the smooth ride of a brand-new vehicle. You appreciate how easily it handles, almost as if it could drive itself. To keep that feeling, you need to have the tires rotated regularly. If you live in Glendale, Phoenix, or Gilbert, you can bring your vehicle to the Service Center at Bell Road Toyota for tire rotation service.

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Reasons for a Tire Rotation

Your tires wear down the tread in different ways, depending on the position of the tire on your vehicle. If you never rotate the tires, the tread will wear out faster in one area while the other tread areas will still be in good condition. Rotating the tires helps the tread to wear out evenly. It also helps the tire to last longer before replacement.

To get the most wear out of your tires, you should have them rotated every 5,000 to 7,000 miles. Many owners include tire rotation with their oil changes, since the timeline is similar. Another reason to schedule tire rotation is because it allows the service technicians to check your vehicle for proper wheel alignment. They can look at the tread and tell if your vehicle needs to be realigned and the tires balanced. Failure to maintain these services can reduce the life of your tires, impede a smooth ride, and increase your risk of an accident because your vehicle is harder to handle.

What Happens with a Tire Rotation?

When your tires are rotated, they are moved from one position to another where more wear will be put on a different part of the tire. How your tires rotate depends on whether your vehicle is front-, rear-, or all-wheel drive and what kind of tires you have. If your tires are non-directional, which means they can be turned in any direction, on a front- or rear-wheel drive vehicle, they can have modified cross rotation. This means the free rolling axle tires move to the opposite side on the drive axle wheels and the drive axle wheels move to the free rolling axle wheel on the same side. So. on a front-wheel drive vehicle, the driver’s front tire moves to the driver’s rear wheel while the passenger’s rear tire moves to the driver’s front wheel.

Directional tires must stay in the direction that’s noted on their sidewall and rotate front to rear. They use straight rotation for all four tires. Four-wheel drive vehicles cross-rotate all four tires. If you have a full-size spare tire, it can be included in the rotation, placing it on the right rear wheel. The tire that was in that position will now become the spare.

You don’t have to worry about positioning of the tires when you bring your vehicle to Bell Road Toyota. Our technicians will take care of rotating the tires to the correct position and balancing them to give you a smooth ride.

Schedule tire rotation service online or give us a call to set up an appointment. Trust Bell Road Toyota with your tires.