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Originally Posted by Sliver
BTW, I started writing on the treads. I was doing the sidewall of the wheel that faces inside, but my markings weren't disappearing year after year, so I had to switch up my system. I guess my grease marker is a little too good or something.
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I'm going to have to buy that grease marker/crayon Fuzz linked.
Something I learned to do in the past as well was to keep an excel spreadsheet of my maintenance that I just keep on the cloud. I love notes in this manner. So much easier to keep notes than word docs as long as you adjust the formats for the cells/rows/columns. I also love having tabs within the same doc to organize info (ie: DIY projects, quick reference info like tire pressure/tire torque, neat accessories etc.).
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Extra about labeling tires: Years ago, I saw a saw a post where someone explained that they got swapping down to a science and could do it much faster than the average person including pulling out tires and storing tires because they wouldn't have to check every tire and relabel every time.
Because this person had so many tires to track/swap/rotate, they did one where they labeled the tires "1-4/5 or A to D/E". Then they extrapolated a swapping schedule using only the label numbers. If you swap tires as a set, you can easily continue to follow the schedule or numbers (ie: if from driver to passenger front then back is 1/2/3/4; driver front would be 1/3/2/4). Even if you had to replace a tire, supposedly you could in theory use something like 2B or C2 without too much hassle as the tire are still somewhat of a set.
According to the guy, there was some counterintuitive learning curve at first, but after that, it was dead easy and extra flexible. He could store years of swap data on a small post it note in his car as a cheat sheet. After a while he'd just remember the transition of 8/16 digits (original and next number of rotation and/or new set) that he'd write on a white board in his garage prior to swapping and then start working. No need to mark each tire each time and year, just double check tire number is still on/clear and immediately store. Because he knew the rotation order from this system, he could also store in a specific way to further speed up the next tire swap. The person even said he was in the process of teaching his wife/kids the system so that he could write 4 numbers on a white board and they could help position the tires for swapping and storage prior to the swap without asking for every tire.