Optimize Your Subaru Performance with Tire Rotation and Wheel Alignment

Whether you drive a Subaru Impreza, Subaru Forester, or Subaru Legacy, Subaru vehicles are durable, reliable, and stylish enough that everyone wants to be seen driving one. While tire rotation and wheel alignment might seem like relatively boring topics for such long-lasting models, our team here at Jim Keras Subaru in Memphis, TN is ready to help you understand why these are such key services.

Tire Rotation is More Than Driving Your Car

While tires do rotate while you drive, tire rotation means more than that. This is a valuable service that involves removing your tires and trading their positions. Since the front tires bear the most stress as your vehicle drives forward, turns, and performs other driving maneuvers, it makes sense that they wear out long before the rear tires. As a result, tire rotation usually involves switching the front and rear tires. The front tires are placed on opposite sides in place of the rear tires, so they wear more evenly through turns.

When you rotate tires on a regular schedule, they wear more evenly and require replacing less frequently. Under normal driving conditions, most all-wheel drive tires need rotated every 7,500 miles or 7.5 months, whichever happens sooner. If your drive on rugged, pothole-ridden [GEO] roads, you should get your tires rotated more frequently.

Smooth Sailing with Genuine Subaru Tires and Parts

Of course, if you need new tires, you can depend on us to supply Subaru-recommended tires. We carry the same tires that you can find on our inventory of great new Subaru vehicles. This helps you get the most wear from your tires and provides the performance drivers of other vehicles crave.

In addition to tires, we use other Subaru original equipment manufacturer (OEM) parts. When our factory-trained team performs service using genuine Subaru parts, your tires and the rest of your vehicle runs beautifully. Since Subaru makes OEM parts, they are designed to work with your car and keep it performing on the roads around Germantown and Bartlett.

If you install aftermarket or non-OEM parts, performance might suffer because Subaru engineers did not design these parts. OEM parts also are guaranteed by the manufacturer so that you can depend on them. This also can give you peace of mind.

Focus Your Driving Power with an All-Wheel-Drive Wheel Alignment

Your all-wheel-drive Subaru's wheels need periodically aligned. Some signs your vehicle's wheels need to be aligned include:

• Vibrating steering wheel
• Vehicle pulls to the right or the left
• Uneven tread wear

If you notice any of these signs, please bring your vehicle in for a wheel alignment. When we realign your wheels, the goal is to make your wheels line up with the axles, so your Subaru wheels focus their driving power together. Driving on West Memphis streets can bring your wheels out of alignment more frequently, so check with our Subaru-trained staff for your vehicle's recommended wheel alignment schedule.

Stay Safe with Properly Aligned Wheels

Keeping your wheels properly aligned is really an investment in your safety. If you test drive one of the vehicles in our used car inventory, it rides smoothly and steers where you command it. This is because we take the time to regularly check alignment and correct it when it doesn't meet factory specifications.

Correctly aligned wheels also helps you stay safe by keeping your entire vehicle in top working order. When the wheels line up correctly, the rest of your vehicle's parts move as intended. In meticulously-designed cars such as a Subaru, each component is designed to bear a certain amount of force or perform specific tasks. Your Subaru's precision-engineering can really shine when your tires are wearing evenly, and your wheels are aligned.

Schedule a service appointment today with us here at Jim Keras Subaru and see what we can do to help!

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