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[–] Philippe23@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yes. They always move in matched pairs.

https://www.familyhandyman.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AutoTech_Tire_Rotation_Patterns.800_x_1200.svg

[–] TIEPilot@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So no full sized spare? We do a different rotation than that.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

I thought these days you don't cross because it's important to keep the same direction of spin for the life of the tire.

[–] Philippe23@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Okay my "always" qualifier was overzealous, but ...

Since 2020, about 9 percent of the cars tested by Consumer Reports have come with a full-sized spare. Studying our database, we found that 46 percent came with a temporary (aka space-saver) spare tire, and the rest were equipped with a sealant kit (34 percent), a run-flat tire (7 percent), or nothing at all (4 percent).

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/tires/some-newer-cars-are-missing-a-spare-tire-a9928775934/

And I'm betting that if you could find stats that broke that down by AWD, it'd be even smaller since I expected the correlation of full-size spares is more toward pickups and 4x4s. Further, I'd bet that most people with full-size spares leave it out of the rotation anyway because many (most?) don't have a cosmetic hub cap and becomes an eye sore.