Date:         Fri, 8 Sep 2006 08:27:54 -0700
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: directional tires and spare
Comments: To: Mark McCulley <markmcculley@gmail.com>
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If you are using a unidirectional tread for a spare, it doesn't really
matter whether it is going forward or backward.  The tire won't explode or
disintegrate, the tread pattern just won't evacuate water quite as
efficiently backward as forward.

I would mount it as a passenger spare since that is the side where most
flats occur from pointy bits picked up near the curb.

Jake

On 9/8/06, Mark McCulley <markmcculley@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Before I spring for a set of Nokian Hakka's I'd like to hear how
> others with these tires have solved the spare problem (the Hakka's are
> directional and can't be moved from one side to the other after they
> are mounted on a wheel). Some suggest mounting the spare to go on the
> driver's side but what then happens if you need the spare for a
> passenger-side wheel?
>
> My current plan is to buy only 4 tires and use a non-directional tire
> on the spare. This is also cheaper than buying 5 Hakka's since I can
> use one of the Vredestein Transport Snow's that I have in the garage
> as a spare.
>
> -Mark
>



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Jake
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