Tyre on the wrong way!

ScouseMouse

So, driving a nice mondeo and there is a grinding from the front left on hard lock. Turns out to be the inner cv joint. Paid 140 for supply and fit.
Mechanic shows me front left tyre on the wrong way round. It says inside - on the outside!

Sitting here back at old Bawn tyres who fitted it, and they are refitting it.

Cannot believe it. Would this cause the cv joint to fail? It has been on about 6 to 8 weeks

rex-x

eh no it wouldnt.....

ScouseMouse

I seem to be unlucky. I bought a new tire. After about 2 months, I see a bulge in the wall. Go back and was told probably a pothole. So bought another and it wasn't driving right. Then the grinding and new inner cv joint. Then mechanic points out the tyre was fitted wrong. Grrrrrrrrr

The Rape of Lucretia

You might be able answer something I have often wondered about then - when you have a tyre on the wrong way around, does the car just go backwards, or, does it go around it circles turning to the side with said tyre fitted ?

Jerry Mac

Had a puncture in a tyre once but the tyre was only flat on the bottom.

elperello

The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »

You might be able answer something I have often wondered about then - when you have a tyre on the wrong way around, does the car just go backwards, or, does it go around it circles turning to the side with said tyre fitted ?

I bought a car once and took it to the NCT.
It was old and I was a bit dubious about passing.
The guy came out and said "your car is in good nick but unless you are going everywhere in reverse the tyres are fitted wrong".

The tyres had rotation arrows and were the wrong way around.

Quick trip home to change the wheels around and back to the centre for a visual and cert.

hi5

It's like putting your shoes on the wrong feet, a worn CV joint is the equivalent of a bunion on your big toe.

Stallingrad

There's every chance you've messed with the Earths rotation, thank God it was not all four tyres.

Isambard

Just to clarify, afaik there isn't an inside or outside and the wheel would have been perfectly correct if fitted on the other side of the car as ut would then be revolving the right way round.

Isambard

Isambard wrote: »

Just to clarify, afaik there isn't an inside or outside and the wheel would have been perfectly correct if fitted on the other side of the car as ut would then be revolving the right way round.

There in an inside and an outside.
Direction of rotation doesnt matter

Doctors room ghost

Stallingrad wrote: »

There's every chance you've messed with the Earths rotation, thank God it was not all four tyres.

Like the lad who put the left ear plug in his right ear and the right one in his left ear.surgeons above in Dublin had to fly a special magnet in from Switzerland just to rebalance his head.he was fierce lucky.