That spanner stayed lit for an entire touring trip around southern Italy a couple of years ago. It came on 5 miles after we'd left home, and I dumbly assumed it was the service light on a couple of months early. 2,500 miles later, back in a UK motorway service station on the way home, I bothered to check the menu and discovered it was just for tyre rotation and I didn't need to have spent the last fortnight staring at it as I drove!
No, I don't rotate tyres. I regularly check tread depth and if any are getting close I change them. Interestingly I am literally just back from the car's 4th main dealer service (£500, ouch) and the fancy video report they send me shows that the original tyres are still on 7mm all round after 14,000 miles. Brake pad wear is also only 10%, so I'm quite pleased. Clearly I'm not driving it anywhere near fast enough...
The only 'advisory' (they didn't do the MOT, my local does that) was the rusted-up valve in the exhaust and missing spring. Odd they've only just noticed it - it's been like that for over 3 years now.... the tech's comment was that the exhaust will be a bit noisier than normal and that a complete new back box is needed to fix it at £730+VAT. I actually like the noise, and given that the same thing would happen again next year, I'll force myself to live with it.
Roger
Topic: Tyre Rotation (Read 1351 times)