If you have a square set up and rotate tires for more life, how do you do it?

Right front to left rear, and converse, Left front to right rear, and converse, or something else? Front to rear? Or inspect and maybe do whatever you think best after looking at the tread?

Junkyard Dog said:

Right front to left rear, and converse, Left front to right rear, and converse...

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If you do this each tire will only ever see 2 corners of the car.
I rotate after a full track day and like move the fronts to the opposite rear corner, and move the rears forward on the same side. With your starting point and 3 subsequent rotations, each tire spends time on all 4 corners

My simple approach has two components.

First, with a set of four new tires, consider them as two pairs. One pair starts on the front and the other pair starts on the rear. The two tires in each pair stay together when you're swapping front to rear.

The second component was to put the tire in each pair with the most tread on the side of the car that will be on the outside of the most turns. For instance, a clockwise track has more right turns than left, so the tire with the most rubber goes on the left side of the car. Counterclockwise track - put the most rubber on the right side.

As for front/rear swaps, when one of the pairs had more rubber in total than the other pair, I'd swap the pairs from one axle to the other.

I rotate after each track day or autocross.
I do a standard rotation, crossing the fronts to the rear and the rears go straight forward.

My tires have very even wear, so works for me.

Similar to @JAJ, I basically just move the tire with the most tread to the corner where I expect the most abuse. If on the same dry course, this usually involves swapping in a criss-cross pattern.

Be careful that many tires are directional in the wet. I’ve run directional tires backwards in the dry to even out wear and I’m not aware of any problems doing that but don’t take my word for it. Ideally in all of this I’m shooting for even tire wear front vs rear but depending on car setup or my mistakes as a driver that doesn’t always happen.

Directional tires means you're stuck doing front to rear and visa versa. After about 50% wear, I take them to the tire shop and fip them inside out for the last 50%

blacksheep-1 said:

Directional tires means you're stuck doing front to rear and visa versa. After about 50% wear, I take them to the tire shop and fip them inside out for the last 50%

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Unless you're in a 2013/14 GT500. 19" fronts, 20" rears, directional tires. No rotating those dudes. A lot of people crapped on the Goodyears, but they were great tires once they warmed up.,