Re: Rotate tires?
Bridgestone, Firestone and Dunlop all say you can change the direction of radial tires but what do they know. :facepalm:
Not that it matters on a trailer unless you have something physically wrong with the trailer's suspension.
well once a radial tire has a lot of miles going in one direction and then you turn it in the opposite direction there is a good chance that the steel treads will separate from the rubber cord and that's when you see an "egg" of high spot show up on the tire. I have had so many "egged" tires I stopped rotating tires because I falsely thought you were supposed to switch direction of rotation when you rotate them. if you don't rotate them at all you just need to replace the front tires sooner then the back but the actual time the tire lasts doesn't change by rotating them, it just helps avoid alignment and steering influences to be more noticeable.
I would put the odds at 30-40% of getting an egg in a radial tire if the tire has nearly half its miles used before you switch directions.
tire manufacturers are just saying you can put tires on in any direction which is true if you are talking about new tires and if you are talking about if tread patterns matter for direction, so it can bell in how you ask the question.
once I started going straight front to back rotation keeping them on the same side so direction stays the same, I have never had another egged tire since.
its also important to note what happens on a car or truck is nothing like a trailer situation as far as how tires are used and abused so the egged tires might be from influences of the cars suspension or drivetrain applying pressure causing it to happen and such influences I don't think ever apply to trailer tires