Goodyear Wrangler MT tire tread direction

[hammick]

I bought an MEP-802a on an LTT-TQG trailer. Tires are Goodyear Wrangler MT. The Goodyear military brochure says these tires are unidirectional. For whatever reason the manufacturer mounts the tires the same way on rims so on my trailer the left tire is rotating the wrong direction. Others I have seen on GP are the same.

I will be pulling this 1200 miles at interstate speeds. Should I have the left tire re-mounted the correct direction or not worry about it?

Also any reason to balance these tires. I have some balancing beads I could have installed.

Thanks.

 

[gottaluvit]

I bought an MEP-802a on an LTT-TQG trailer. Tires are Goodyear Wrangler MT. The Goodyear military brochure says these tires are unidirectional. For whatever reason the manufacturer mounts the tires the same way on rims so on my trailer the left tire is rotating the wrong direction. Others I have seen on GP are the same.

I will be pulling this 1200 miles at interstate speeds. Should I have the left tire re-mounted the correct direction or not worry about it?

Also any reason to balance these tires. I have some balancing beads I could have installed.

Thanks.

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I, myself, do not see how it could matter on a trailer. On my CUCV, I have them all facing the same to clean better in mud. Every trailer I got that has them tires, have them with one each direction as you have stated.

 

[Augi]

The tire is mounted on the rim so the date code faces out. The tread direction doesn't matter.

 

[hammick]

Thanks for the info guys. I'm not going to worry about unless they feel like they should be balanced. If I end up balancing them I'll have them flip the left tire on the rim.

FYI here is a link to the Goodyear brochure where they say they are uni-directional.

http://www.goodyear.com/cfmx/web/gov/pdf/military_tire_brochure.pdf