22 models showed 5K, 23 and after 8K. The info system and manuals were not updated to proper maintenance intervals.

 

Manuals not updated? Another reason I’ll never buy another Hyundai vehicle. Mickey Mouse club.

 

I was told the same thing when I first took my 23 I5 in. Since it is a lease and the rotation cost is covered in the lease, I let them perform a software recall and passed on the tire work and returned it a couple months later at 8K for the rotation.

 

Assuming the policies are the same as my 2022 Sonata was, only the Normal schedule is covered under complimentary maintenance. Any extra services that are part of Severe you need to pay for.

 

Easy fix. Stop taking it to the dealer for rotations. Plenty of tire shops rotate tires at no charge.

 

If your tires were purchased from them.

 

Our Hyundai dealership has rotated the tires on our 2022 I5 for free every 5,000 miles (per the owner's manual) without question.

 

my dealer in PA says tire rotation every 5k for my 2023 sel awd.

 

still find it odd, this tyre rotation you guys the other side of the pond do

here in the UK we never rotate any tyres

 

You do understand the reason? Tires will not wear evenly. Due to driving style, vehicle weight distribution, drive configuration and alignment.

A particular tire or F/r could wear out in in 20,000 miles. If you spread that wear over all the tires, you have potentially doubled the miles you can get out of those same tires

 

Your point about uneven wear across a tread can lead to that tyre becoming illegal earlier than it would be if it had worn evenly, but that's a mechanical problem that needs to be cured, rather than just accepting it and experiencing excessive wear. Sometimes it's acceptable as part of setting up toe in and camber for track days when driving performance cars, but in regular cars such abnormal wear should be corrected so that the tyre wears evenly across the tread.

Even by rotating unevenly worn tyres in an attempt to level off the wear across the tread does not double that tyres life. You have just worn one side down too much in its half life and then worn the other side down to match in the full life of that tyre. You haven't doubled its life. Just avoided it being scrapped at half life.

 

I think one advantage of having a competent technician rotate the average person’s tires is that they can and should examine the tires for abnormal wear patterns so the issue can be corrected before the condition wears the tires too much.

From a tire company’s point of view, if they are rotated regularly the the wear is roughly equal on all tires so they won’t have to replace under warranty as many tires. Say you have a 50K mile tire with a prorated tread wear warrantee. Rotate tires at 5K intervals and they all wear out equally at, say 40K miles. You have practically no warrantee cost, basically a slight discount on a new set of tires and a return customer. And if you notice abnormal wear and the customer refuses to get it fixed you have a reason to void the warrantee. But if the car is never brought in for tire rotation you may have one or two tires fail soon enough for no documented reason that will require the tire shop to do warranty work.

 

But if the car is never brought in for tire rotation you may have one or two tires fail soon enough for no documented reason that will require the tire shop to do warranty work.

Why would they be liable for warranty work when the tyre failed early, or became illegal, due to severe wear on one side of the tread only? That is clear evidence of user error surely. And failure to react to such uneven wear by resetting alignment/pressures.

 

Happened to me too!
IONIQ 5 excellent car, Hyundai service not so much.

 

My 22 Limited was sold with a promise of 5k rotation at no cost. Sounds like a contract to me. This just points out the communication issues that emanate from corporate, and dealers seeing dollar signs to me.

 

I have been tracking my tread wear with a guage and, surprisingly, the front and back tires are wearing so evenly I don't feel the need to rotate for the last 12K miles or so. Also, I have about 32K miles on the original tires and good thread depth still, whereas I see some on here complaining about the I5 eating up tires. I must not be driving hard enough. 🙂

 

You must drive like I do.

I rolled over 40K miles today. Still legal tread depth on the tires. I will get new tires this autumn before the winter rains start.

I am pretty pleased with getting 40K from OEM tires, I am not sure I made it that far on any of the other cars I have purchased.