Your asking if thats illegal?
That wouldnt even get a look in on your car!!!!


Chop

It is not illegal to run you tread pattern reversed.

It is illegal to run you tread pattern reversed.

Hi all, just wondering if it is illegal/defectable/insurance voiding/etc etc
If you run a directional tyre in the reverse direction
Most directional tyres have a rotation direction arrow on the sidewall, including mine

Today i reversed my Kumho KL71 M/Ts, to test the difference on Sand
I know they will be worse on Mud, and better on Rock.. And now i've concluded that they are also better on Sand when reversed

Considering leaving them this way, but i figured i'd ask because i wasn't completely sure

You're both from Perth, this isn't helping.. Is the law yay or nay in NSW?
I really don't feel like stirring more trouble with the law than i need to

you wont run em backwards for long once you relise how shit and noisy they are in every other aspect bar the fact you dont dig into soft sand, which by the way is your driving style or lack of rather than the tyres fault

i'd tend to agree - the laws in australia are pretty tight on stuff like that. if you don't want to call a transport authority, go to a tyre fitter and ask them... sure they might not know, but if its a liability to them they wont do it.

It is not illegal to run your tread pattern reversed!!!
Other wise you would need two spares when they sell cars with Directional tyres. As long as there is a minimum tread depth, carrying capacity and speed rating you are fine.
Look at the Bridgestone Adrenalin tyres. They have both directional and asymetrical patterns so they will be reversed on one side of the vehicle no matter what. If you have a directional pattern on a rolling axle it is better to run them in reverse.

I dont think its illegal, if insurance are thorough and inspect the car, should you have an accident and they see that, yes it possibly could be voiding insurance... the tyres also have a warranty, and reversing them would void tyre warranty... but the thing that i think is most important, if they have a direction on them, then its for a purpose, like the steel belts, and polyestor/nylon cords, are laid in the rubber to work in a certain direction, and if reversed, could actually damage the tyres and make them unsafe onroad... so IMO, i would put them back on to work in the direction they were designed for...

It is not illegal to run your tread pattern reversed!!!
Other wise you would need two spares when they sell cars with Directional tyres. As long as there is a minimum tread depth, carrying capacity and speed rating you are fine.
Look at the Bridgestone Adrenalin tyres. They have both directional and asymetrical patterns so they will be reversed on one side of the vehicle no matter what. If you have a directional pattern on a rolling axle it is better to run them in reverse.

Whenever I've had directional tyres, the spare has a non-directional pattern and is designed just to get you somewhere to get the tyre repaired...

In the days before space saver spares and cost cutting you use to get a full size spare and alloy rim to run on you car that is identical to the tyres on the car.
Those stupid space savers are only rated to 80km/h and if you got a flat 200km from a tyre shop it was a slow drive to get the origional tyre fixed.

Does it have one of those fixa flat pressure cans that the audio guys use so they don't need a spare?

Yep, but i wouldnt trust one of those.
I spotted a screw in my girlfriends sport and the tyre was slightly down so i said ring work tell em your gonna be late and take it straight to the tyre place around the corner.

Chop

The casing and belt structure are the same between a non directional and directional tyres, it is purely the tread pattern that is different.

No