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Old 03-02-08, 06:49 PM
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I am currently running Protenza RE050A RFTs on the front of my car, and it eats the insides of tires up. The Protenza's are asymmetrical in tread design. Would there be any problem running the tire with the "inside" labeled side on the outside? I hate to get such little use out of a tire when 80% of the tread is still good.

Yes I do need to get it aligned.
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Originally Posted by NoLongerA13bFan
I am currently running Protenza RE050A RFTs on the front of my car, and it eats the insides of tires up. The Protenza's are asymmetrical in tread design. Would there be any problem running the tire with the "inside" labeled side on the outside? I hate to get such little use out of a tire when 80% of the tread is still good.

Yes I do need to get it aligned.
it can be done, it won't hurt anything immediately, but it will wear the tire bad very quickly as well as be noisy...

whats causing the wear though? I run a ton of negative camber, and still got over 30k on my BFG KDW's...
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It can be done but you will be sacrificing wet traction if you do that. Those tires are pretty soft and you probably have a good amount of negative camber.
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