Car Tire Rotation: Examine Tread Wear

Video Transcript

"Before we put the tires back on the car, we want to take a look at tread wear. Now if the suspension is in line and everything is alright, we should have good tread wear from one side to the other. If you get something out of line your tire's sitting out on top, it's going to wear this side of your tire down more than this side. If it's too far in on top, it's going to wear the inside of the tire down a lot faster than it's going to wear the middle or the outside of the tire down. This tire looks in pretty good shape. They're pretty even, a little more wear here, but there's not a lot of life left on them so that's maybe not necessarily a suspension problem. Also the other thing we can check is the brakes. You can do a simple inspection. We look at the disc, you feel it. It feels smooth, it's wearing evenly. That looks in pretty good shape. When you look in here, you can see the brake pad, we can see there's a lot of pad left on it and that's what you want to see up against the disc. So, for now the brakes look good. We've got more life left in them. The tires look like they're good, we've got some more life left in them. Now we're ready to put the wheels back on."