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Me_irl (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Why wouldn't you be able to just replace the opposite tire and leave the other pair alone?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    You don't rotate your tires?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    I never have intentionally rotated them, the only uneven wear I've had is sides vs center, not left vs right.

    All I do is check that the better two tires go on the rear axle when changing between winter and summer tires, but that's only when I have four of the exact same tire. When I've had two different pairs, I make sure that the better pair goes on the rear axle, at least in the winter.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    So no full sized spare? We do a different rotation than that.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago*

    Okay my "always" qualifier was overzealous, but ...

    Since 2020, about 9 percent of the cars tested by Consumer Reports have come with a full-sized spare. Studying our database, we found that 46 percent came with a temporary (aka space-saver) spare tire, and the rest were equipped with a sealant kit (34 percent), a run-flat tire (7 percent), or nothing at all (4 percent).

    https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/tires/some-newer-cars-are-missing-a-spare-tire-a9928775934/

    And I'm betting that if you could find stats that broke that down by AWD, it'd be even smaller since I expected the correlation of full-size spares is more toward pickups and 4x4s. Further, I'd bet that most people with full-size spares leave it out of the rotation anyway because many (most?) don't have a cosmetic hub cap and becomes an eye sore.

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