Mitsubishi: tires - patterns different L vs R

Umm, they are making a ton of performance directional tires these days.
It really sounds like one set is on backward.

If you look on the side there will be an arrow if the tires are
directional.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Phil Schuman wrote: 

Are their arrows on the side of the tires to indicate a direction of travel?
I know large trucks use this new type of tire and there is a left and a
right tire for the front axle. They are big tires though, 295/75R22.5's.

"Phil Schuman" <com> wrote in message
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No Mike. The tires are all the same, but when mounted on the Left, they
appear to point frontwards and when mounted on the Right they look like they
point backwards. The tires are NOT directional, this is why they don't point
the "right" way on both sides of the car.





"Mike Romain" <ca> wrote in message
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Any tyre that appears to be the same tyre but the treads are facing
different directions, is a specific directional tyre. Mainly for high
powered vehicles, tho they tend to get less miles from them. As the other
guys said, there are arrows on the one side that is the outside of the tyre,
they usually face with the forward movement of the car.
"Phil Schuman" ALso some directional tyres are ZR and VR rated tyres meaning
high speed, HR and SR rated tyres are for the less powerful cars. ANother
aspect of tyres is the reducing the number of 13 and 14 inch tyres, 15 inch
now seems to be a base size in the future, for example a 205/65 x 15
ratio's down to a 195/75 x 14 or a 185 x 14, all keep well with in the 2%
differences ect

Hope this helps

Peter
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My snow tires are directional, its a pain in that I can only rotate them
fore and aft. But they work great.

Snow...

"David Rhodes" <net> wrote in message
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If you drive a Jeep, that is the only 'proper' way to rotate the tires
according to both of my owners manuals. They specifically say do not
cross them and for a 5 tire rotation, the spare goes to the RR or main
drive wheel with the RF going to the spare.

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Snow wrote: 

LOL!

Ok so which way am I going to drive today then eh? Do I flip the rims
because I will mostly be making right turns today or put them on the
other way because the route is mostly left turns?

That makes absolutely no sense at all Jeff unless these are oval track
tires or something.

How about a brand name for these stupid tires so we all can avoid them?

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Jeff Strickland wrote: 

... and then they changed their minds in the TJ FSM and decided it was a good
idea to swap sides :-)

Dave Milne, Scotland
'91 Grand Wagoneer, '99 TJ

"Mike Romain" <ca> wrote in message
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a 
295/75R22.5's. 
jeep.