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Originally Posted by claymore
No X pattern. Front to back only, unless you want to pay to have the tires taken off the rims and moved from side to side keeping them going in the same direction that they had been going.
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Claymore has it right. The reason for keeping tires on the same side of the car is the overlap of the tread belt. Once tires run very far in one rotation the overlap tends to take a set; running the opposite way can cause the overlap to 'bunch' or 'wrinkle' at that place.
That is often the reason many tires are marked in the rotation desired.
Smoother is better.