Directional Tires
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Originally posted by Connie
I will call you an idiot for not utilizing the potential of your tires.
I will call you an idiot for not utilizing the potential of your tires.
I'm sure Jeff would never try it anyway.
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Well the reason i ask is because i took my car into Honda to get a major tune-up and they rotated my tires. Unfortunetly they put the 2 fronts on the wrong way. i will only be using these wheels temporary for i am getting new rims soon. Just wanted to know if they wear the tread faster. Thanks for the info folks....
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Rep Power: 0 Now I ain't no tire engineer, but the main purpose of directional tread pattern is to evacuate WATER as quickly as possible from under the tire to prevent hydroplaning & loss of traction on wet roads. The technology actually came from the manufacturer's Formula 1 rain tires.
You probably won't be able to tell a major difference until a heavy rain, at which time you go flying off the road
Does this make sense to everybody else?
1) The safest thing would be to get back to your dealer for a quick (NO CHARGE dammit cause it was their fault) swap.
2) Otherwise, if you leave them like that, drive like a 90 year-old granny when it rains
You probably won't be able to tell a major difference until a heavy rain, at which time you go flying off the road
Does this make sense to everybody else? 1) The safest thing would be to get back to your dealer for a quick (NO CHARGE dammit cause it was their fault) swap.
2) Otherwise, if you leave them like that, drive like a 90 year-old granny when it rains
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Rep Power: 0 since the tires are directional, the tread is meant to wear in the direction specified, so being backwards ir would be like combing your hair the wrong way. what i do when i take my car in for service is tell them that if the service calls for tire rotation that i DONT want it completed, and they dont. i request this not only cause of the possibility that they do what happened in your case, but also because the sevice intervals are assuming that they are the stock tires with the same mileage as the rest of the car. i just rotate them as i think they need it, on my own.
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