Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:55:54 -0500 From: "The Malt Hound" <data61aS_P_A_Mnospamcape.net> wrote in message news:%yBHd.772$Ii6.737nospam.lga... > Retro-Bob wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:03:08 -0600, Captain Freedom >> <data61aS_P_A_Mnospamcape.net> wrote: >> >> >>>The tires (bad ones) were directional and were of Japanese make. >>>I can't remember the make. I think Yokohama's. Threw them away. >> >> >> The test for this is to swap the tires around and see if there are any >> changes. > > > Did that. Took them off and remounted left to right, right > to left. Then front to back. Did not make any difference. > I suspect there was amanufacturing flaw in the whole lot > of tires. Swapping the tires around the car may not > give the answer. In my case I guess I could have tried > to run the tires backwards to see if the pulling went from > the right to the left. Uhhhm. Didn't you do that when you took the tires from the right side and swapped with the left? That runs the tires backwards (rotationally). -Fred W