ruski
04-25-2008, 06:19 PM
From a Corvette forum:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/showpost.php?p=156 0180113&postcount=112
The only issue that I see with them may be running the one side "backwards". While I agree that likely isn't an issue when the tire is new, as it wears I think that it could become an issue.
If you look at these tires, they have what a tire engineer would call a "high void ratio". That is, there is a lot of air in the tread and not much rubber. When the tire is relatively new, that extra area lets the water out. That may be why nobody is seeing an issue with them in the wet even with the tread going the wrong way. As the tire wears, the amount of room for water to evacuate the tread gets lower ( as it does for any tire) but the fact that the tread is pumping backwards could be more of an issue at lower tread depths.
Just an observation...
maybe this is what happened to James?
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/showpost.php?p=156 0180113&postcount=112
The only issue that I see with them may be running the one side "backwards". While I agree that likely isn't an issue when the tire is new, as it wears I think that it could become an issue.
If you look at these tires, they have what a tire engineer would call a "high void ratio". That is, there is a lot of air in the tread and not much rubber. When the tire is relatively new, that extra area lets the water out. That may be why nobody is seeing an issue with them in the wet even with the tread going the wrong way. As the tire wears, the amount of room for water to evacuate the tread gets lower ( as it does for any tire) but the fact that the tread is pumping backwards could be more of an issue at lower tread depths.
Just an observation...
maybe this is what happened to James?