Tyre rotation

[Rudedog]

While cleaning car today I checked my front and rear depths and it seems to be the ideal time to potentially swap the front and rears around, hopefully his will mean I'm ready for a full set in the new year.

Thing is I've never done this on the driveway using just a trolley jack and stand.

When my cars in at the dealers in January for the key-fob investigations I was going to ask if they will do it.

Has anyone had experience of this?  Is it something they would help with and if so would they charge or is (fingers-crossed) FoC?

[fredgroves]

My oem bs's lasted best part of 60k on the rears. With my second mk7 when I got the fronts replaced the first time i got them to swap the rears onto the front.

So about eighteen months in i had decent tyres all round.

Although to be fair, the decent rubber on the front makes a noticeable difference, the rear less so but at least it didn't cost anything.

The dealer would charge you no doubt though.

[Toppy]

I just did mine a couple of weeks ago on my drive way, i just utilised the standard jack that came with the car and the spare wheel. It wasn’t to bad it took about an hour in total and i gave all of the wheels a proper clean once i had them off of the car.

[Watts]

I just did mine a couple of weeks ago on my drive way, i just utilised the standard jack that came with the car and the spare wheel. It wasn’t to bad it took about an hour in total and i gave all of the wheels a proper clean once i had them off of the car.

This. Very quick and easy but most tyre places will swap them around for you for a small fee if you don't want to.

[Norwich7point5]

I invested in a 2 tonne Sealey trolley jack and a hockey puck and did them myself.
The jack was around £40 but I'm sure I'll use it plenty of times. It's just safer than the 'widow maker' jack supplied with the car

[Rudedog]

I think it's the thought of having one whole side of my car up in the air with no wheels on just balanced on a couple of jacks.

[Norwich7point5]

I did mine one at a time. A bit of a ball ache but nice and safe!

[sjw]

I think it's the thought of having one whole side of my car up in the air with no wheels on just balanced on a couple of jacks.

Jack STANDS

[Watts]

I think it's the thought of having one whole side of my car up in the air with no wheels on just balanced on a couple of jacks.

No need as above. Take a wheel off and replace it with the spare and drop to the ground. Jack up the next corner remove the wheel and replace with the one already off the car. Replace the spare with the second removed wheel and repeat the other side. Never more than one corner off the ground and the time in the air is minimal. A trolley jack would be ideal but not entirely necessary.

[Yusee]

i'm not sure hydraulic jacks are any safer than mechanical?
both have potential for widow making if you work under the car and don't use jack stands