I understand that. My question is, if a non-directional tire has lived it's life (15k miles) treated as if it were directional (only rotated front to back), will that cause any problems if they're mounted on the opposite side, and are now running backwards to their original rotation?

 

You don't understand what a directional tire is. It has an arrow telling you which way it is to be on the vehicle so there would be no doubt how to mount them. The tires you're looking at are normal, they can be originally mounted either side in or out. Once they are ran one way they should be that way or tire life will be decreased. Both kinds of tires should stay on same side of vehicle.

 

I understand what a direction tire is, but maybe I'm not explaining my thoughts well. Let's say that these Scorpions were mounted with the white letters out, and I intend to keep it that way. Could I rotate my RF tire/wheel to the LR position? You answered that, and I thank you.

 

Sorry about the miscommunication. Did you read this post? Sometimes you can tell like this.

 

Yeah, I'm gonna test myself on my current tires. They've always been rotated front to back. Thanks.

 

When you rotate tires it says right in the manual back tires come straight forward, cross the front going to the back. I got over 80k miles out of 60k bf goodrich at tires doing it this way. You will NOT have issues if they are bi-directional tires.

 

It doesn't matter if you flip the back or flip the front as long as you stick with that same method every time.

 

Right the point is to have the tires rotate both ways and to be at each corner of the vehicle at some point to keep tread wear even.

 

yup

 

Sorry bout that, I got black feathers in my mouth cause I had to eat a shoot load of crow. I just looked at my manual too. Back in the day when they started making steel belted radials you couldn't do that. They must make them different nowadays. My apologies.