I have about 3500 miles on my new e320 and wonder if anyone
have their tires rotated every 3000 miles as the book said?

 

I'm not there yet. Just have about 2K miles but I plan to rotate on schedule especially with the Cont. rubber!

 

I did call mb services to ask them about this, but they told me that I don't have to do anything to the car right now until the first service 10000 miles. should I bring my car to somewhere else?


2003 E320 Brilliant Silver/ash leather, E2, E3, 4-Zones, parktronic, Navigation, 7years/10000, SIMONIZ® Protection

 

IMO, 10K miles between tire rotations is fine, so MB's advice was good. I do plan to change oil when odometer reaches 3K, but won't do anything else

 

The MANUFACTURES TIRE manual that comes with the car outlines the reccomended time between rotations.

It is NOT 10,000 miles, it is NOT 3,000 miles.

My MANUFACURES TIRE manual says 6,000 miles.

 

Tire rotation figures are only recommendations. Check the tire wear yourself. Some tires require more frequent rotation like on my AWD Denali. It destroys the fronts in less than 4000. Conversely, I don't ever remember rotating the tires on my old Honda! Look for uneven wear in all directions, especially on the inside and outside edges on the fronts. The rears wear fairly evenly on RWD cars unless there is an alignment problem.

Like they say, "Your mileage may vary".

 

Consider yourself lucky, because those who have staggered wheels/ uni-directional tires (front and back have different tire sizes) can't do it and will wear down the front tires faster!

 

True, the best defense here is maintaining proper tire pressure and frequent alignments. There is a left to right swap that can be done. If the tires are directional AND symetric, you can dismount from the rim and swap left to right. This swap will get the inside edges now on the outside. Usually, if you have that sort of problem it is on the outside edges of the fronts but my Porsche Carrera ate the inside of the rears quite rapidly.

Some directional tires like a few Pirellis and Yokohamas are asymetric and must be mounted with only one side out.