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I called the Honda Dealer I bought car from in St. George. He said - I didn't rotate my tires anywhere near where I should have. Also alignment. But i mean 12,000 miles less just from that?
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Just noticed this...
Yep our cars seem to eat through their front tires much more voraciously than the rears, so rotation is good for distributing the wear evenly. One explanation for this I observed is heat.
After a long drive or a spell of high-speed cruising in fair weather, the temperature differential between the front and rear wheels alone is huge. It's pretty consistent too how the front wheels have scorched my fingers while the rears stayed pretty cool
Why do they get so hot? I think it's because of the front-wheel-drive design (the front tires do all the work, braking, accelerating and turning) and the ~65% front weight bias of the car. Imagine how much of that wheel heat gets transferred to the tires, and you have a pretty good idea of how important tire rotation is for our Fits/Jazzes.