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sheramber

Arklight wrote: »

But what is the difference between moving a tyre to a different wheel and fitting a brand new tyre?

You don't normally move the tyre to a different wheel, you move the wheel complete with the tyre .

When you buy a new tyre the new tyre replaces the old tyre on the same wheel.

PDC

Arklight wrote: »

But what is the difference between moving a tyre to a different wheel and fitting a brand new tyre?

What the poster above sudgests, based on what you've said you've been told, is that the wheels are coded to their sensor position, so if you put a rear wheel on the front it may throw an error code (I have no idea if that is the case but that is whats been sudgested above).

So to get what you want done the tyres would have to come off the wheels and be swapped that way. I'm sure a local tyre place will do this for you for a small fee if its important to you.

neilmcl

Remind us again what make/model of car this is?

Ganga

Surely the tyre pressure sensors are fitted in the rims so a wheel can be taken off and fitted to any other axle.

System

Rotating the tyres doesn' mean removing the tyre from the rim and fitting it to another, it means swapping the whole wheel with tyre to a different position.
It's what you do if you have a puncture and have to fit the spare, or if a tyre/rim gets damaged and has to be replaced.
Some 4X4s require the wheels to be switched front.back to even out tread depth, because it affects the ratio of drive shaft rotations to distance travelled.
Otherwise there's not much point - total wear is constant whatever you do -, but if you find a tracking error say and one tyre is beginning to wear unevenly, you can swap it to a different position to even it out.

JGB1955

Surely any decent tyre fitting company know how to reset the car's (very annoying) ECU to say all is OK once tyres have been moved/repaired/replaced? That's certainly been my experience.

davemorton

martinthebandit wrote: »

When the front ones need changing, change them, and when the back ones need doing, change them.

There will be no difference in how many tyres you need to buy over the lifetime of the vehicle if you keep it for any length of time.

Not strictly true. If you dont do many miles a year, you might have to change a tyre due to age before it is worn out.

iainscomputer

This is a good idea, but if you like to keep all your 4 tyres matching & want to keep your tyre choices flexible when buying tyres, it is good practice to rotate them so they all require changing at the same time.

lincroft1710

In 50 years of driving, I've never rotated the tyres. Can't think of anyone who did rotate their tyres.

molerat

lincroft1710 wrote: »

In 50 years of driving, I've never rotated the tyres. Can't think of anyone who did rotate their tyres.

You obviously never read the handbook then. In "the old days" before the advent of directional tyres the majority of car handbooks had a diagram of the complex front right to rear left etc wheel swap game you were supposed to do, garages would do it as part of a service. I swap my fronts left to right every year to even out the wear due to it being a mainly in town car. New tyres always go on the back as well so that the old tyres get worn out before they life out as well as adhering to tyre manufacturer's recommendations.


Anyway, back to the OP. Is there not a button you press to reset the tyre sensors, my car has it in the menu.