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There are a heck of a lot of places, both car dealers and tire dealers that offer an oil changes with free tire rotation. What the heck, they have it on the lift anyways.
Tires do NOT need to be re-balanced at rotation time unless you nailed a curb and knocked off a counterweight or something like that.
Nitrogen has to be one of the most over-rated and expensive gimmicks going today. While our cars are nice, they aren't aircraft landing on Navy carriers. Pirelli specifically states to use air, that nitrogen is not advised.
Here is $25 well-spent, go and get your oil analyzed and find out what good oil you are throwing away. I knew I was changing mine too soon with a new car and using Mobil 1 on my Camaro, so I sent a sample of the oil in my Subaru Outback, which has 192k miles now. Not sure what the guy did the first 84k miles before I bought it 4yrs ago, but I put in whatever is on sale, NAPA, Peak, Wal-Mart, etc.I usually change it anytime after 3000 miles but up to 5000, whenever I find the time since I do it myself. I go from 5w-30 in winter to 20w-50 in the hot summers and now have 10w-30 in it. Anyways, just got back a sample analysis of oil that had about 4,000 miles of 5w30 in it from the oil change before the last one. Now given, I did add a quart of oil at about mile 2500 as it was the start of summer and I was driving hard through mountain passes. That is why I went to 20w50 for the rest of summer. Anyways, the results came back that I had 50% oil life left, which is darn good. Even with the added quart at the half-way mark, which had to be done anyways, 50% oil life left.
Just things to think about.
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