Is it worth swapping tires between vehicles?
Swapping tires between two vehicles lets you make use of newer tires on a truck you barely drive instead of letting them go to waste. However, differences in wheels, such as bolt patterns or center bores, can make a direct swap complicated or impossible without modifications.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Swapping the tires between the vehicles to make use of the newer set instead of letting them go to waste.Did this help you?
- 2Researching tire dimensions and compatibility onlineDid this help you?
- 3Checking overall diameter and offset differencesDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“So i have two trucks, one’s a 21’ f150 with factory hankooks at2’s completely stock 4wd, the other one’s a 14’ f150 2” leveling 4wd with Falken wildpeak 116/119s 275 60 20 (both same size).”source ↗
“Thing is the 21’s tires are looking pretty rough and i was thinking about swapping tires between the trucks, is it worth it?”source ↗
“I dont have the money for new tires now. As for the 14’ truck i dont use ir anymore and im pretty much letting the falkens go to waste.”source ↗
“I don’t want to waste the all seasons I just got and everything I’m getting online while doing research is telling me that I may need to upgrade break pads (?) and I didn’t know if someone’s upgraded them before and know if it’s possible without really changing anything.”source ↗
“cant just swap the wheels over, bolt pattern is different between those generations. the 03 is 5x114.3 and the 08 is 5x114.3 too actually, but the center bore is 64.1mm on the 03 and 64.1 on the 08 as well... wait i might be wrong about that being a dealbreaker.”source ↗
Where this came up
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