whoa, how can you have tires that cost $300-400 apiece???!!! {/quote]I guess own my vehicle and buy quality tires? That's with taxes and all the environmental fees included. Maybe tires are more expensive in Canuckland?
ETA: I just checked Tirerack.com and I could get the OEM tires for my vehicle US$239 each. That's about CAD$265 right now, but with normal exchange rate, it's right around CAD$300. And that's without any road hazard which Tirerack adds on another $115 for that. The place I buy at in Canada includes that in their price, and their prices are still the same as other Canadian stores that do NOT have road hazard. So, that's one reason I still buy from them. Add taxes, some enviro fees, balancing and kablam, you're right around CAD$1600. If I wanted to go with 19" instead of 18", prices are a bit higher. Buying a second set of rims and the winter tires made me cry last fall! I'm glad I found someone that upgraded to 19" and sold me the OEM 18" rims for a great price and I didn't get stuck with ugly, cheapy rims for the winter.
that's one way to do a rotation cycle on a car, but the other is just to do a 4-tire rotation, keeping the full-size spare as strictly a spare. both my summer and my winter tires are uni-directional, meaning they can't be switched from left to right or vice versa... this is incompatible with a 5-tire rotation schedule
Ya, just remembered our winter tires are uni-directional as well, but we're not putting the spare in the rotation on those anyway. Our summer tires aren't uni, so from my research and the fact that we tow, it seems that a 5 tire rotation is likely best/safest for us.