On Mar 6, 2011, at 1:58 PM, 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 > it stuck; he says he still has customers who insist that tires > simply be > rotated front to back. Maybe that is why my Discount tire manager didn't tell his tire jockeys that my Hakka CS's were directional tires, which they REALLY are, even have big directional arrows on the sidewalls. They probably don't see many real directional tires in non snow country, and assume that all tires are like the ones they usually deal w/. That said, it is sometimes dangerous to assume that a customer is an idiot? YMMV, Mr. BZ-maybe an idiot in other ways, according to my wife |
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