Tire rotation question for (FULL SIZE SPARE)

[FORD*DIEHARD]

*Disclaimer- I know there are always different ways of doing things and that doesn't make one right or wrong, I'm am just asking to get others opinions and reasonings.

While working on my Bronco with my cousin some how tire rotation came up. When the subject came up I mentioned that's something I need to do. He asked me how I do it and I said;
Left front tire to right front
Right front to left rear
Left rear to right rear
Right rear becomes the spare
The spare to the left front.

He said that he heard you are not supposed to do it that way and the front go to the back (stay on the same side of the vehicle they came from ) and the back to the front because I you rotate them in the criss cross method the tires have already started to wear a certain way and by criss crossing you will get the tires to crack due to running away from the wear pattern the tire has developed. So then I asked him what about the spare tire? He wasn't sure as some if not most cars do not come or even have a place for a spare tire (I know because my sons car he bought did not come with a spare (donut spare tires do not count on full size spares)

Thank you in advance for your time/help,

Sonny

 

[DirtDonk]

The fact that some modern cars don’t come with spare tires does not pertain to a bronco.
The fact that you do have a spare (doesn’t matter what type of vehicle) means that if you choose to rotate the spare with the others, you may do so.
The no spare tire thing is all within the last few years.
Every older vintage vehicle, certainly including Broncos, came with a spare tire. So choose to rotate with the spare, or without the spare. At some point it’s simply a personal preference.

I have not personally been very good about rotating in the spare, and have only rotated the tires on the axles.
The way you described do it certainly seems a valid method, though I don’t think I’ve ever seen it. And it’s completely different from how I do it.

Most manufacturers list, a specific one, and many of those are different. I simply chose to use the one recommended in the 90s by Chevrolet because it made sense. And since I didn’t really have any 90s Fords at the time to compare to, I just kept with it.

In that version, both rear tires go to the front and both front tires crisscross to the rear.

Simple and effective. After multiple rotations, every tire has been on every corner of the vehicle.
I have not heard about tires cracking due to rotating to different sides in probably 50 years. Certainly back in the old days it was a concern. Or most certainly with tires that are tired old worn out already.
But never with recent vintage, or relatively new tires.

Using my method described above (diligently by the way) on multiple cars and trucks, I regularly get 100,000 miles out of set of tires. Even on the four-wheel-drive trucks.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t very diligent with my last 2 Wheel Drive truck and only got 45,000 miles out of the OE set of tires.

Usually my tires wear out internally before the tread wears out. With that Chevy I mentioned, and several others, I had to replace the tires at roughly 70,000 simply because they were starting to act funny.
It seems like 60-70k is about the limit before they need to be replaced to get a good road-feel back.
Most still had many many miles of tread left, but you could feel their age in the way the vehicle drove.