And you’ll trust that your spare is good and ready, as you’ve used it recently. And your fifth matching wheel (yes more cost) will match your offset, so will work properly with your suspension setup without rubbing. If you need your spare offroad, a matched setup is essential in my opinion. I’d hate to continue down a difficult trail with a non matching spare with a different wheel from 6 years ago.
Cost is higher. It’s not a cost/mileage discussion. It’s for function. More functionality costs more, in virtually every industry.
But the functionality is the same. The tire you never rotated into the mix is still a tire that will mount on your vehicle and drive wherever you need to go.
No it isn’t if an owner doesn’t want to spend the money on a fifth matching wheel. Way more functionality out of five matching wheels and tires.
It’s easier to do a 5 way rotation on the ground, than a four way. You’re still unmounting and remounting 4 tires. But you only need one corner jacked up at a time. It takes me about 10 minutes. I don’t know why it’s hard to get the spare in and out either. There is literally a hand winch that does the lifting. I’ve done it at least 15 times with 37’s. No issue.
I'll agree to disagree. I've only ever seen Jeeps that drive on 4 tires functionally. You could buy 50 tires and wheels but you're only ever running 4. A spare is just a spare and will function as such regardless of wether it looks the same or was rotated in to the mix regularly.
I have 3 matching 37’s on my trailer. I could do 8.Can we alter the subject slightly to discuss if I should 6 or 7 tire rotate?
If your stock spare needs a different offset, what did you do to your Jeep to make it rub? Lower it? Narrow the axles?
12.5” wide tires will rub on factory offset wheels without a spacer. If I swap in the spare, I’d rub offroad. No beuno.
I like not having to pull out the 4 jack stands with a 5 tire rotation.
Are you saying that the spare shipped with the truck is not the correct offset for use on the vehicle it came with?
