Re: [alfa] Another Old Wives Tale...

[Richard Welty <rwelty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 10:12:01 -0700 Caxambu <caxambu@domain.elided> wrote:

> ..Is "Do not reverse rotation of radial tires when perfoming tire 
> rotation." i.e. It's OK to switch them front to back, and vice versa, 
> but not side to side. That they should always be rotating in the same 
> direction.
 
> Is this still valid for today's radial tires? The tires on my Spider are 
> due for rotation and thought I'd check with the digesters first.

radials are a lot better than they used to be. most manufacturers are back
to recommending 5 way rotation (including the spare) where practical.

just don't do this with unidirectional tires (unless you have special
knowledge. it was possible, for example, to rotate Yokohama A008R? tires
arbitrarily after you got the first couple of heat cycles into them, but
you needed to obey the arrows until you broke them in.)

richard
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