ooops! Unidirectional tires

Yes! Does that make a difference?

JV (fingers crossed)

Brain fart here on my part....Did I mention that the tread pattern is reversed on the two sides of the car?

JV

As far as I know, that will only effect the rain performance of a tire...the tread is only effective in the rain. Think about a race tire for the dry, no tread, maximum rubber on the ground.

Have you damaged the tires...probably not. Should you change them, yes...although I would be interested in seeing what happened if you tried to aggressivly stop and corner on wet pavement...Perhaps you have a large parking lot and a hose? Just kidding (sort of)

Blix

Generally, directional tread patterns have some sort of "V" pattern to the tread. Looking at the front of the tire, the point of the "V" should be pointing downwards in 99% of the directional tires I have seen. As has been mentioned, this is really only a factor for rain performance. If you have a directional tire mounted the wrong way, in theory you will be pumping water out from under the tread which is facing the right way, and pumping water into the contact are on the side with falsely mounted tires. If you're not sure, go visit a competent tire shop and ask.

Stephen

That's not necessarily true, Lanny, if someone was stupid enough to put on, say, four lefts or four rights. In that case, all the tires could say "outside" on the outside but two of them would still be wrong.

On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 20:53:22 GMT, "tooloud" wrote in news:bgh8c2$o85ia$ snipped-for-privacy@ID-121148.news.uni-berlin.de:

I suspect that no tire manufacturer would make a unidirectional tire which could only be mounted on one side of a car. Therefore if the tire says "outside" it is most likely not a unidirectional tire.

Some cars with unidirectional tires use different size tires on each end and so there is no rotation possible.

I confused myself. I was thinking of tires already mounted.