At 03:58 PM 3/6/2011, Karl Wolz wrote: >According to my brother-in-law, who is a Discount Tire manager, radial >tires, even the early ones, were not unidirectional; the whole thing was an >old wives' tale of sorts. No one really knows where the rumor started, but Could be. I was one of the early adopters of the Michelin X (40,000 miles on a tire? Unheard of!), and I *think* I remember reading in Consumer Reports of the time about the front-to-back rotation. I'm quite certain it was in Consumer Reports of a later time that I read it was no longer necessary. Not that CR are always correct by any means, but they do have access to primary sources. And it wasn't that they were unidirectional as such, but that once they'd been run in in one direction, wasn't good for them to switch. Yours, d |
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