Originally Posted By: ChrisD46
For suburban driving (i.e. 10% highway , 90% street) what mileage is your tire rotation schedule for a front wheel drive vehicle ? ... I'm guessing every 5,000 ~ 7,500 miles ? ... The same time you do an oil change ? Thanks in advance .
Not all FW drive vehicles are the same but generally 5000k miles is a good interval for tire rotations.
In addition to trying equalize tread depth from the drive axel to the non-driving axel, rotating your tires such that they will roll in the opposite direction at each interval ("X" pattern - RF to LR, LF to RR, RR to LF, LR to RF) will mitigate the heal-toe wear that naturally develops when the tread blocks exit the footprint. Some tread patterns are more susceptible to heal-toe than others, but all do it to some degree. The main issue caused by heal-toe wear is increase tire noise.
There are vehicles being manufactured today that have issues with fast/irregular tire wear due to factory alignment settings and also from out of spec, non-adjustable rear suspension setups. If you are aware of issues like this, fast inside shoulder wear on the rear positions for example, then you may want to tailor your rotation schedule and pattern to compensate.