I read thru my owners manual and didn't see anything, plus I also looked around on here and didn't see any thing about this as well. Do I need to rotate the tires on my s2k? I don't think I do b/c its a 50/50 weight distribution and its RWD.

Thanks for your help!
Cris P.

 

you cant really rotate your tires... the rear tires are wider than the front. and i think the tread is differnt from the left and the right... u just gotta go buy new ones

 

oh also... the rear tire tread will go alot faster than your front tires

 

First, this should be in the wheel/tire forum.

It's got nothing to do with this car being RWD or that it has 50/50 wt. dist. It's because the front rims and tires are a different width that the rear rims and tires (aka "staggered" sizing). Addtiionally, it's because the front and rear hub centers are different sizes and Honda made the front and rear rim center holes different sizes. Read your owners manual as it will tell you that you must NOT put the spare on the rear as it will destroy the diff. Because of this, Honda made the rim holes and hub sizes different so you have to put the spare on the front and a good front on the rear should you blow a rear tire.

 

Ohhhhhhh Ok. Thanks for the help. This is my first rear wheel drive, as all my other ones have been front wheel drive.

Do the tires wear pretty evenly though since you can't rotate them?

 

Depending on how you drive your rear tires should last you about 8-12k miles. In terms of even wear, they will wear a whole lot faster than your fronts.

 

because of the design of the roads...


D.

 

Well the tires are pretty new on there now, and I don't really drive it that hard (I know I will once I get used to it). I was hoping to at least get 20k out of them. I don't recall the brand that are on there now, but I know they aren't the OEM ones.

 

What you can do (all you can do) is swap the tires left-to-right and right-to-left, keeping the fronts on the front and the rears on the rear. But you have to dismount and remount the tires on the wheels so that their direction of rotation remains the same.

Probably not worth the trouble unless you have one side wearing a lot more than the other (say you turn right a lot more than left, perhaps).

 

As everyone else has eluded to, no, they don't wear evenly. Due to the aggressive alignment (to generate the kind of handling this car has) and because it's RWD, the rears tend to wear out at a rate of about 2 to 1 compared to the fronts. Even "normal" driving, this will happen. You may also notice that the rear inner part of the tire will wear down more and as "dhayner" says ....................
Here is a thread that explains in better details what "flipping" is all about:
https://www.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=128526