Hi,
I'm running hankook evo 12 directional tires, and I'm wondering if I can swap them side to side? They're only directional for wet roads right?

Since all the tracks I visit are clockwise, my left tires wear faster.

Thanks.

 

I do front to back only.

 

Front to back only.

My father-n-law as been building tires for Uniroyal for 37 years and says once a tire rolls under weight in a direction it should always roll in that same direction.

If you ever pull tires off to sell mark the location so the next owner can run them the same direction. Even the valve stem location on the bead should be marked during a flat repair so it can be placed back in same spot on the bead during remount.

You also shouldn't buy used tires that aren't marked as such either. Though I've done it time and time again when I was younger and had less $$$

 

Normally rotate front to rear and 'flip' the tires (remount to run on the opposite side of the car) at half tread and rotate left to right. Rotate front to rear again until the tires are done.

 

Yes, you need to keep the directional tire rolling the same way, wet or dry. That is based on the tread pattern.

The policy of keeping a non directions tire rolling the same direction is old school radial ways when radial tires first came out. I remember when that info was valid....but not with today's tires. Check with any tire sales/maintenance/manufacture information and they give numerous safe rotation methods.

 

Thanks guys, I appreciate the replies.

I'm not sure how this might apply to non-directional tires. I had a set of Michelin PSS which I flipped left to right and front to back with no apparent problems.They remain the grippiest tires I've used so far, no matter where they were mounted. Does this mean directional tires are constructed differently from uni-directional ones?

 

The construction is the same I believe.....the tread pattern is designed to work in one direction. Traction and most important, water dispersion, is much better with the directional tires.

 

PSS are 'asymmetrical' and can be rotated to any position without remounting. That's not 'flipping' as I'm referring to with the directional tires. You need to remount directional tires the opposite way on the rim to put them on the opposite side of the car. Otherwise, they can only be rotated front to rear.