I have a questionDear Tyre Guru, I sometimes run different model tyres front and back. Apart from wet weather water displacement, is this an issue?Question 2:Dear Tyre Guru, I sometimes run my tyres on backwards as on right hand biased circuits I get more wear if I turn the tyre around after it's been used a bit on one side.Will the tyre fall apart if I do this?
You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginQuestion 1...Manufacturers do not test with other manufacturuers tyres', it's therefore difficult to say what issues there will be, if any. It will dependppend on the materials used in each tyre - as the varying materials we all use, work and operate in different ways. If you are going to mix then try and mix with like for like...i.e. Sport Touring front and Sport Touring rear as you will have a greater chance of them working together.As far as the law is concerned, there is no law (as far as I am aware) that states you have to use "approved" fitments. As long as the load, speed and size matched those of the originally homologated tyres. then legally, you can use them. Question 2...Will the tyre fall apart? If you use it long enough and stress it enough, yes. Tyres are designed with a rotation and that rotation foreces the joins together, therefore eliminating the risk of the tyre unravelling itself. Running it backwards will allow the tyre, over a period of time, to actually unravle and strip itself of the tread compound area.thanks for the reply mr Bridgestone
Question 1...Manufacturers do not test with other manufacturuers tyres', it's therefore difficult to say what issues there will be, if any. It will dependppend on the materials used in each tyre - as the varying materials we all use, work and operate in different ways. If you are going to mix then try and mix with like for like...i.e. Sport Touring front and Sport Touring rear as you will have a greater chance of them working together.As far as the law is concerned, there is no law (as far as I am aware) that states you have to use "approved" fitments. As long as the load, speed and size matched those of the originally homologated tyres. then legally, you can use them. Question 2...Will the tyre fall apart? If you use it long enough and stress it enough, yes. Tyres are designed with a rotation and that rotation foreces the joins together, therefore eliminating the risk of the tyre unravelling itself. Running it backwards will allow the tyre, over a period of time, to actually unravle and strip itself of the tread compound area.
We have Gary Hartshorne who is the Sales Development & Technical Manager for the Motorcycle Department of Bridgestone UK Ltd willing to answer specific tyre related questions for us. Use this thread if you have any and I will forward them to him and paste back the reply.
