Tire pattern makes a BIG DIFFERENCE...

Make sure you run the tire in the direction of the arrow ... and it has to do more with hydroplaning than anything else...

The tread is designed to swipe, or whisk the water from the center of the tread's contact patch outward towards the edges of the tire.

If the tire were reversed, the tread would DRAW the water in towards the center of the tire, then as the pressure built up as the tire moved/rotated forward, the resulting pressure would be enough to raise the tire up from the road's surface and you'd lose all contact with the road itself...therefore you'd be hydroplaning...

So, the ONLY way to "rotate" these particular style of tires is from front to back and back to front...never cross over unless you remove the tires from their respective rims and remount them on the rims from the other side of the vehicle...and at that time, what used to be the inner sidewalls will then be the outer sidewalls and vise-a-ver-sa...and only if the manufacture of the tire allows that type of swaping...

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M. G. Burg
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...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
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