For months now I’ve been torn between buying a Model Y and buying one of Hyundai’s Ioniq models. Today I pulled the trigger and bought my first EV, an Ioniq 6 SEL. Overall I just felt like I was getting more car for the same price. I’m absolutely blown away at how much Hyundai has turned their brand around compared to 5 years ago. The 5 year 60k mile bumper to bumper and the 10/100k battery with two years free charging and 3 years free maintenance is what ultimately sold me. But dang if those Tesla seats aren’t the most comfortable things in the world.
Tire rotations can range from important to utterly pointless to impossible (when the car doesn’t have the same sizes front and back). What makes them not that useful is that rotations don’t really change the amount of wear the car puts on the the tires, just the distribution of it.
It’s safer to have the more worn tires on the front, by quite a bit. I used to have a car that burned through front tires pretty hard. That didn’t lead me to rotate more often, though. Rather it made me replace the front tires twice as often as the rears. Rotating would have evened the replacement out, but then I would have ended up spending more time with the tread depth in the rear at a lower average depth. In aggregate, it would have been less safe to rotate the tires instead of just replacing the fronts more often.