And yet, half the time you have a shop rotate tires, unless you specifically tell them to X rotate them, they simply swap front to rear. It's easy and I think it may even be an evil master plan to sell more tires!!!! Mark Price mpriceAtwestco.net Morgantown, WV 69 AMC rambler, 4.0L, EFI, 5 speed 65 Ambassador Conv, 327 AUTO, Basketcase 01 S-10 CREWCRAP 4X4 ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker) Reply-To: mail-From-mprice-westco.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:11:26 -0400 (EDT) > >radial tire evolution went through a phase when x-rotation was bad; >iirc the tread belts would take a set according to the way they >rotated. if you then reversed rotation they wanted to come apart. > >they've solved that tendency, years ago. >________________________________________________________________________ >Andrew Hay the genius nature >internet rambler is to see what all have seen > >adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and think what none thought > > > >