I learned a lesson that cost me 20,000 miles of wear on my truck tires. To avoid the same mistake in the future, I am planning on rotating the tires every 5,000 miles. If I had done that with the tires I had on the truck from the factory, I would have had the misalignment professionally diagnosed about 15,000 miles ago, and the rear tires would not have been the ones to take all of the wear from the trailering. At 41,000 miles, these tires were ready for retirement.
I wound up having to have 4 new tires put on the truck, in addition to the alignment. When I went to pay, the final price I was charged was off by $100 from what I was quoted the day before. The tech didn't apologize though - he said he didn't think I would mind that it was that much less than what he had said it would be. I wasn't going to complain!
The new tires are designed for the type of work we do, and the tech said that I can get 60,000 miles off of them if I am diligent with my tire rotations. And, as part of the deal that I got with these tires, I get free rotations and flat repairs for as long as I have them on the truck! So I have no excuse not to rotate every 5,000 miles!
