CX-5 Tire Rotation

[yrwei52]

Interesting, I am about to rotate my tires and I looked for the rotation pattern. My winter tires are directional so those are just front to back, but the oem are Omni-directional so I'm going to do the cross pattern rotation. Most diagrams I see online for AWD vehicles calls for the rears to move forward and the fronts to cross to the back. The picture posted at the top is the same they say for front drive vehicles, which some CX-5's are, fronts to the back and cross the backs to the front. Does anyone know why the difference? I'm thinking that since it's FWD unless noticing tire slip where the AWD kicks in I should follow the FWD pattern.

The tire rotation for our Honda CR-V AWD and FWD uses the same rotation pattern:

I am so used to doing front-to-back and back-to-front I had assumed recommended pattern was the same on the CX-5.
Next rotation I will go by the owner's manual (P 6-37).