On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 22:41:12 -0400, Dan Espen > wrote:

>Vic Smith > writes:
>
>> On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:13:06 -0400, Dan Espen > wrote:
>>
>>>Roy Tremblay > writes:
>>>
>>>> What do you think about the 4-tire rotation pattern below?
>>>
>>>Total waste of time.
>>>
>>>Drive the car until the tires wear out, then buy new ones.
>>
>> +1
>> I never in my life rotated a tire, or had them rotated.
>> For a while I bought my tires used for 5-20 bucks a pop.
>> Now I buy 4 quality new tires when the old ones wear out.
>
>Yet this thread goes on and on about you've got to do this,
>and that. Seems like people like their rituals.
>
>Same with the "winterizing" the lawn mower.
>I just stop using it in the fall. In the spring it starts right up.
>I've got at least 50 years of not rotating my tires and not
>winterizing the lawn mower under my belt. No ill effects
>noticed so far.

Same here. I don't even run it out of gas. Same with the weedwhacker.
I think doing the rituals offend or confuse the machines, making them act up.