Rubber Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Hi all, I just bought a set of winter tyres on steel wheels online for my wife's Fiesta. The tyres are Bridgestone Blizzak LM-30. I was just about to fit them but I am confused as to whether they have a direction of rotation? Here are the tyres in question - http://www.bridgestone.co.uk/tyres/car-4x4-and-van/blizzak-lm-30 The tyres have all been installed with the correct side to the outside/inside of the wheel as per the label on the tyre. When I place the tyres side by side as they will stand on the front of the car (as per the picture) the yellow tread block is on the inside of the wheel in both cases so I suppose this satisfies the asymmetrical query (I think!) However, what is confusing me is the direction of the tread on the tyres. Since these are side by side as they would be on the car you can see that the yellow tread block on one side will be facing forward and on the other side will be facing backwards. Is this correct? I may be in for a flaming here if I get this wrong!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brillomaster Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 if theres an 'inside' and an 'outside', and they're the right way round, i'd say thats fine! You cant have an inside and and outside AND a rotation direction, otherwise you'd need to sell tyres in pairs! They dont look particularly asymetric to me anyways... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy78 Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 That's right, looks strange as hell though! Don't ask me how it works, but it obviously does? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubber Posted December 14, 2012 Author Share Posted December 14, 2012 if theres an 'inside' and an 'outside', and they're the right way round, i'd say thats fine! You cant have an inside and and outside AND a rotation direction, otherwise you'd need to sell tyres in pairs! They dont look particularly asymetric to me anyways... That's what I thought! Never gave too much notice to replacing my tyres on the Zed as I always got it done at the garage. Yes - not very asymmetric! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilMH Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Agree with the others - only thing you have to do is make sure that inside is on the inside and vice versa. The element of "asymetricness" is that the tread pattern beneath the blue line is different to the pattern under the yellow line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonk Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Had this exact question when we had tyres fitted to the wife's car. As said above so long as outside is to outside and inside to inside all is fine and that was straight from the tyre fitter as I was also somewhat puzzled coming from directional tyres on the Zed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flex Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 I'm still confused Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebized Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Does get confusing - look at the tread pattern on the Sesstanas - pics taken from the front of the car - but they work extremely well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubber Posted December 14, 2012 Author Share Posted December 14, 2012 (edited) Does get confusing - look at the tread pattern on the Sesstanas - pics taken from the front of the car - but they work extremely well Yes they are basically the same as my tyres but are more pronounced in the fact that the tread points in different on each side - strange! Edited December 14, 2012 by Rubber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjcdeans Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Does get confusing - look at the tread pattern on the Sesstanas - pics taken from the front of the car - but they work extremely well haha yes i had these on a set of mines, was always confused, with the looks. But hey it works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dblock Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Good tyres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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